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April 2011

April 15, 2011

Academic bias

A new study demonstrates what might seem perfectly obvious but which still needs to be...

March 2011

March 29, 2011

Undereducated and overschooled

Anthony Esolen names a common malady: When my daughter was young, she would often be...

March 15, 2011

Learn apologetics

If you are interested in Christian apologetics--that is, the defense of the Christian faith--I urge...

March 08, 2011

Memory as a human superpower

Plato worried that reading would diminish the memory, and he was right. Now in our...

February 2011

February 25, 2011

Patrick Henry College is #1 in test scores

Please forgive me for bragging about the academic prowess of my students. This is something...

February 23, 2011

Battle of the eighth graders

Webmonk alerted me to a post on Freakonomics about a test for eighth graders from...

February 22, 2011

Who trained the teachers?

In the monumental quest to improve D.C. schools, officials are collecting tons of data. Here...

February 18, 2011

A new definition of religious discrimination

The University of California-Davis has a new religious discrimination policy, according to which ONLY Christians...

February 17, 2011

CliffsNotes of CliffsNotes

As a literature professor, I just hate CliffsNotes and their ilk. Reading isolated facts about...

February 02, 2011

Playing Chikin

The chicken sandwich chain Chick-fil-A is owned by devout Christians who close their stores on...

January 2011

January 18, 2011

Patrick Henry College in the news

I work at Patrick Henry College, where I am a literature professor and the provost,...

December 2010

December 23, 2010

Quarter of Army recruits can’t pass entrance exam

We apparently no longer have universal education in this country. Even high school graduates cannot...

December 10, 2010

Church & family values go up with education

Used to, college graduates went to church less than the moderately educated. For some reason,...

December 10, 2010

Revolt of the children

A 16-year-old boy in the Netherlands was arrested for bringing down the MasterCard and Visa...

December 08, 2010

U.S. test scores vs. China’s

International testing data shows that American high schoolers perform at a distinctly mediocre level in...

November 2010

November 15, 2010

Generation X is disillusioned

Generation X is disillusioned, we are told, traumatized over there being a war, the failure...

October 2010

October 19, 2010

Lutheranism 101

I finally got my copy of Lutheranism 101, and I recommend it highly. And not...

October 08, 2010

The rest of what I said: on colleges’ responsibilities

The unedited version of one of the questionsin the interview the Washington Examiner did with...

September 2010

September 29, 2010

Conference on Lutheranism & the Classics

I'll be heading out to the seminary at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, for the conference on...

September 08, 2010

Educational reform

Robert J. Samuelson notes that decades of educational reform policies have yielded nothing that works:...

August 2010

August 26, 2010

Youth group madness

I was on Issues, Etc., yesterday. You can listen here. Somehow Todd Wilkens or Jeff...

August 25, 2010

“And then they are all mine”

Al Mohler, himself a seminary president, discusses the agenda of some college professors: On many...

August 25, 2010

Non-denominational

Sarah Pulliam Bailey (a regular reader of this blog) has written a good article for...

August 24, 2010

Evangelical college picks Catholic President

The King's College has selected Dinesh D'Souza as its new president. The New York City...

August 24, 2010

Student Loan scandal update

Yesterday we blogged about the Washington Post's dependence on income from its ownership of Kaplan,...

August 23, 2010

The Washington Post & the student loan scandal

Last week we blogged about the student loan scandal, how some schools--especially for-profit institutions--are sucking...

August 20, 2010

The student loan scandal

Colleges and universities are howling at an administration proposal to cut off federal student loans...

August 17, 2010

Teachers good and bad

The California teachers' union is calling for a boycott of the L.A. Times for publishing...

August 06, 2010

The Postsecular

The intellectual, academic world, according to some observers, has become "postsecular." Scholars are now factoring...

July 2010

July 01, 2010

Supremes say college Christian groups must admit non-Christians

A strange ruling from the Supreme Court: The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a...