Letters to the Editor

Latest Letters

• Professional-School Training Is Invaluable, Even for Scholars

  "Exposure to professional coursework during my joint business-school/economics-department Ph.D. studies has informed even my approach to graduate instruction."

• What Conservatives Want

• Teaching College Courses in High Schools

  "More high schools provide their students with the opportunity to take college courses than offer AP courses."

• Dissing the Inarticulateness of, Like, Youth

• The Past, Present, and Future of German Studies

• Technion Society Is Not a 'Fund-Raising Office'

  "The New York-based American Technion Society was founded in 1940 as an independent organization dedicated to raising support for the Technion-Israel Institute of...

• Adviser to Protesters: Grow Up. Pay Up.

  "The 'Pledge of Refusal' ... what a thought."

• Queer Activism vs. Queer Theory

• 'Queer' Academic Project Not Dead

  "Queer studies--at least in linguistics, and at my university--remains a vital and vibrant enterprise."

• Researchers Are Not the Only Good Teachers

  "Is Mr. Mendillo suggesting that the only worthwhile courses are those taught by research faculty?"

• Maryland Lawsuit Is Hardly 'Unusual'

  "Maryland has been warned for over 40 years by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights that its higher-education system was segregated."

• The Matters of Philosophy

• How to Fix Sports in 8 Not-So-Easy Steps

  "First, end all athletics scholarships."

• Secondary Schools Should Concentrates on the Basics, Not AP Courses

  "Most AP science teachers in high school have a master's degree in education, suggesting that they must have struggled with their own science courses in college."

• AP Courses Are the Equals of Their College Counterparts

  "The teachers who have the talent, education, and drive to teach Advanced Placement courses should be celebrated for what they do."

• The Question of Branch Campuses Abroad

• Philosophers and Pigs: An 'Immoral' Pedagogy

  "If aiding in the slaughter of the innocents is what the new 'public philosophy' might stand for, let's hope that philosophy returns quickly to its nonpublic work inside the...

• Our Animals, Ourselves

• 2011 News Quiz Is in Poor Taste

  "Prescription-drug abuse by college students is no laughing matter."

• Don't 'Sinify' Courses for Chinese Students

  "Chinese students appreciate that U.S. educators can bring to their lives unique experiences and perspectives and perhaps challenge them to think in unaccustomed ways."