Dr. I. Caroline Crocker is a cell biologist whose passion is to promote good science, based on impartial evaluation of evidence rather than blind adherence to consensus. According to her, it is vital to the health, prosperity, and even faith of our nation that science be freed from the constraints of financial, political, and religious motives. For this [...]
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Caroline Crocker Interview
November 3, 2011
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TheBestSchools.org Ranking System
September 19, 2011
Finding the college and degree program that are right for you is one of the most important things you’ll ever do. It is a complex process that will affect the rest of your life. To navigate this process successfully, you need useful and reliable information about the enormous variety of post-secondary schools and programs that [...]
Some Thoughts on Grade Inflation
September 6, 2011
A recent article in the Chicago Tribune (here) recounted the difficulty that many seemingly excellent high school students (judging by their GPAs) encounter when they get to college. The upshot of the piece is that grade inflation, especially at lower-performing schools as measured by standardized tests, is leading large numbers of high school graduates from [...]
Are Today’s Kids “Wired” Differently?
August 19, 2011
We here at TBS are dedicated to bringing you the very best articles with the most relevant and up-to-date information on a range of topics related to education. In an ideal world, that would be a great service in and of itself. It would make life easier for you and for us if that were all [...]
Thoughts on “Super Teachers”
August 18, 2011
Anyone who has read a newspaper or looked at a television news program in the last few years is well aware that the American public education system is considered to be in crisis. How to describe the crisis, how to understand the reasons for the crisis, and above all what to do about it are [...]
Trouble in Academia: Some Distinctions
August 13, 2011
Yesterday, we wrote about alleged abuses in the online education industry (see here). It seems only fair, in order to put that article into perspective, and to avoid any appearance of bias against web-based colleges and universities, for us to point out that a spate of abuses has been revealed recently in some brick-and-mortar institutions, [...]
Six Dangerous Subjects to Debate with Your Professor
July 21, 2011
In the last couple of decades, the university has become quite a different place from its original idea as a hothouse of competing ideas. As philosopher Roger Scruton writes, In many courses in the humanities and social sciences … ideological conformity, rather than critical appraisal, and censorship has become accepted as a legitimate part of [...]
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