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...fact that AIA grew out of a media watch-dog organization casts suspicion on its intentions. AIA was founded to trace the origin of a supposed liberal bias in education using the same methods as its media-watching parent organization. Malcolm Lawrence, president of AIA, draws the parallel between media and education: "The classroom can be compared to a newspaper. The professor is the source of information or service for which the student pays...
...POLITICAL bias aside, Accuracy in Media's goal of eliminating misrepresentation and inaccuracy on the six o'clock news is a noble one. However, just as classroom and media are fundamentally different, the goals of Accuracy in Academia and Accuracy in Media are not equivalent. To eliminate bias and opinion from teaching is anything but noble. It is, in fact, inaccurate--representing a distorted view of the process of education...
...such a poor poll, with such a poorly worded question, I would have failed. The effect a question can have on both the response rate and the nature of the response cannot be overemphasized. The council's referendum is proof. Its results are immensely uncertain, with a large bias favoring those who want the council involved. While 59 (the percentage of "Yes" votes on question two) is approximately the upper bound on the percent of undergraduates who want the council to support divestment, the lower bound is a mere 26.5 percent (100 percent minus 71 percent minus the 2.5 percent...
...wing watchdog group that he said was recruiting students "as a corps of thought police." The group, Accuracy in Academia, was founded last summer by Militant Conservative Reed Irvine as an offshoot of his flourishing (35,000 members) Accuracy in Media, which makes a business of challenging perceived liberal bias in major news organizations...
...approach as "wrongheaded and harmful" and urged it to "shut down the operation before it goes any further." Writing in Contentions, her committee's bulletin, Decter argued that in the classroom, accuracy is not the issue. "There is no accurate way," she noted, "to teach the Federalist Papers . . . Bias is something that anyone with opinions can be accused of. How can a person be qualified to teach without opinions...