Academic Questions articles from September 2000

Academic Questions archives from September 2000

Where Thought Is the Currency.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... A year ago, I read an article about two scientists who patented their dyslexia therapy (in partnership with their universities), raised venture capital, and formed a company called "Scientific Learning Inc." (New York Times, 14 September 1999)....

Ubi Sunt.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... According to my calendar (infallible, because electric) all the snows of yesteryear came down in patterns largely mythic, self-destructive and (these days predictably) now known as well to be immoral, needing...

A Brief for Individual Merit in Michigan.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Covington & Burling for the National Association of Scholars IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN JENNIFER GRATZ, et al.,) ) Plaintiffs, ) Civil Action No....

What's at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars: A Primer for Policy Makers.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... What's at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars: A Primer for Policy Makers, edited by Sandra Stotsky. New York, Peter Lang, 2000, 369 pp., $32.95 paperback. This book by several hands has been overseen by Dr. Sandra Stotsky of the Harvard...

Books, Articles, and Items of Academic Interest.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Eva T. H. Brann, tutor and former dean of St. John's College, Annapolis, eloquently defines and defends the idea of liberal education in "The American College as the Place for Liberal Learning," Daedalus (Winter 1999). Why Read the...

LETTERS.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Judged Objectively for Once To the editor: I was greatly heartened to read Dr. Dowling's well-argued article (Winter 1999-2000) defending the meaningfulness of the SATV. I am one of those people who got 800 on the GRE and who can claim...

Of Melodrama and Academic Discipleship.
September 22, 2000... Ever since the late 1960s, scholars have faced a troublesome problem: how to judge scholarship and teaching derived from an outlook not their own. When faculty members have convened to examine a doctoral student, screen job applicants, or...

A Descent to Cultural Studies.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... When we encourage young people to suffer the rigors of higher education, we do not think enough has been said if we merely point to the connection between a college degree and a better-paying job. A college education, we believe, is a chance to...

The Correct Colors of a Faculty.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... This article deals primarily with unwritten policies for the selection of faculty at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, an undergraduate institution of the City University of New York (CUNY). In revealing the extraordinary lengths to which...

Seven Principles of Higher Education: A Primer.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Seven is a lucky number (and thankfully less than Luther's ninety-five). I hope that by distinguishing the interrelated principles below, it will be easier for critics to bring out specific rather than global objections to my arguments. 1....

Whiteness Scholars vs. the Jews.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... That large numbers of American Jews have been attracted to the tenets of twentieth-century liberalism is a long-established fact. Scholars like Seymour Martin Lipset, Earl Raab, Steven Cohen, Lawrence Fuchs, Charles Liebman, Stephen Whitfield,...

Letter Owed to a Candidate.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Dear-- You are one of seven candidates we will be interviewing for the three-year lectureship in composition here at Santa Clara. A thirty-year veteran composition teacher, I wanted to share some thoughts with you on what I saw in your...