| Type | Title | Author | Date |
| Op-ed | Medicine Could Reach For Stars, FDA Willing | Edward Hudgins | 10/6/2004 |
| Description: Lessons from technology and space travel can be applied to the FDA. In each case, privatization may be the answer. |
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| Center News | Center Hosts First Graduate Seminar | | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: Center Hosts First Graduate Seminar |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Private Space Triumph | Edward Hudgins | 9/30/2004 |
| Description: Private entrepreneurs triumph! Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites complete their first space launch in pursuit of the X prize. |
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| Center News | Sightings July/August 2004 | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Dr. Brian Simpson will present courses in economics based on the works of Ayn Rand and George Reisman. |
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| Center News | TOC Gives First Graduate Scholarships | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center awards graduate scholarships to Walter Foddis and Shawn Klein. |
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| Events | What Are Western Values And Should We Return to Them? | | 5/19/2004 |
| Description: An Objectivist Center Policy Forum on June 3, 2004 in Washington, D.C. featuring David Kelley, Ed Hudgins, and speakers from conservative, old left, and new left points of view: Lee Edwards of The Heritage Foundation; Marcus Raskin of the Institute for Policy Studies; Christopher Hitchens, author; and Berry Latzner of American Council of Trustees and Alumni.
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| FrontReport | Report Follow-up: Assault on Science Spreads | Edward Hudgins | 2/3/2004 |
| Description: The omission of evolution from Georgia's schools is retreat from science. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, October 2003 | | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: African Education, Hong Kong and the Future of Freedom, Our Friends the South Koreans |
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| Miscellaneous | September Soundings | | 9/1/2003 |
| Description: Democrats and Million dollar contributions; Responsiblity in Britian; Education in New York; Whom Do Americans Trust? |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: The Court's black and white decision. | Edward Hudgins | 6/27/2003 |
| Description: The Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action |
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| Article | Where's the Art in Today's Art Education? | Michelle Marder Kamhi | 2/28/2003 |
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Advocates for art education have made inroads toward establishing the visual arts as part of primary- and secondary-school education. Nevertheless, there is cause for deep concern, for serious art of high quality has been rendered more marginal to the content of these programs. It has been displaced by trivial works of popular art and by cultural artifacts, selected mostly for the hidden sociopolitical messages that can be wrung from them. |
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| Commentary | Ban Government Racism, Not Discrimination | David Kelley | 2/28/2003 |
| Description: The current argument for affirmative action is undermined by government funding and corrupted by collectivist premises. But advocates of individualism should recognize that a "meritocratic" approach relying solely on grades and tests is not the answer. The answer is a rational and free society in which a wide variety of schools would be allowed to create widely varying types of student bodies by discriminating among applicants in any number of ways. |
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| Article | Free Speech and Postmodernism | Stephen Hicks | 10/1/2002 |
| Description: The argument that gave America free speech has a corollary: When we set up specialized social institutions to advance our knowledge, we should take special pains to protect the freedom of their creative minds. Why, then, do the greatest current threats to free speech come precisely from within our colleges and universities? |
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| Commentary | Looking into the (Ed School) Abyss | Bradford P. Wilson | 6/30/2002 |
| Description: The National Association of Scholars was invited to help Colorado determine if its teacher-education programs were carrying out the legislature's mandate to improve students' academic performance. The findings were discouraging—but the education establishment's reaction was dismaying. |
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| Interview | Richard Warshak Previews Seminar Talk | | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: A clinical professor of psychology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center with twenty years of experience in treating trauma victims, Richard Warshak will present Heroes, Trauma, and Children to the 2002 TOC summer seminar |
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| Op-ed | A Tribute to Mister Rogers, A Long, Good Run | Donald Cooper | 9/4/2001 |
| Description: A tribute piece to Mr Rogers, legendary children's television personality. |
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| Letters | Letters: Art and Education (Aug 2001) | | 8/10/2001 |
| Description: In response to the Navigator interview with Alexandra York about art, education, and Ayn Rand. |
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| Interview | Art And Education | | 6/1/2001 |
| Description: In this exclusive interview, Alexandra York, president of American Renaissance for the Twenty-First Century, argues that art is fundamental to a well-rounded education. |
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| Article | The Math Wars | David Ross | 5/1/2001 |
| Description: Math, like most subjects, has been corrupted by new standards that do not emphasize the fundamental underpinnings of the discipline, according to mathematician David Ross. |
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| Review | Teaching Virtue in a Postmodern World | Roger Donway | 3/1/2001 |
| Description: Navigator's editor, Roger Donway, notes that James Davision Hunter's The Death of Character asks a very pertinent question: How can we teach morality in grammar school and high school when our college professors assert that no morality can be validated? |
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| Commentary | The Best and the Brightest | David Kelley | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: Despite a poor overall showing by American students in mathematics and science tests, America's future intellectual resource bank is well-stocked, as two recent major science competitions make clear. |
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| Commentary | Political Correctness Still Runs Rampant | Donald Cooper | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: Though political correctness is not much discussed anymore, it is quite prevalent on America's college campuses. In this commentary, Donald Cooper recounts two recent battles. |
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| Article | Why Johnny Can't, Like, Write | Susan McCloskey | 12/1/2000 |
| Description: Native English speakers often have trouble communicating their thoughts to others via the written word. This is due in large part to the way that writing has been taught in elementary schools. Susan McCloskey, the president of McCloskey Writing Consultants, details how fashionable methods of writing instruction have failed and offers advice on how to teach writing more effectively. |
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| Article | The New Comprachicos | James J. Campbell | 5/1/2000 |
| Description: Pediatrician James J. Campbell provides us with his assessment of the National Reading Panel's April findings. He also explains how his interest in childhood education grew from some startling results from his work as a pediatrician. |
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| Excerpt | Objectivism in the Classroom | Susan Dawn Wake | 10/1/1997 |
| Description: The following is an excerpt from a talk given at the 1997 Summer
Seminar in which she describes her experiences as an Objectivist professor. |
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| Study Guide | Foundations Study Guide: Montessori Education | Marsha Enright | |
| Description: Marsha Enright and Doris Cox explain the Montessori child education method. |
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| Audio | Homeschooling | Mary Heinking | |
Description: Audio excerpt. Ms. Heinking presents a comprehensive overview of homeschooling as a viable alternative to public schools.
Buy the audiotape at The Objectivism Store |
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| Audio | Why Johnny Can't, Like, Write Audio | Susan McCloskey | |
Description: Audio Excerpt. Dr. McCloskey identifies the reasons why the principles of good writing and English grammar strike so many students as foreign or, worse yet, irrelevant.
Buy the audiotape at The Objectivism Store |
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