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...skeleton to be locked firmly in the closet, one might be forgiven for thinking math is pretty easy. Yet beware! For amongst you—in every pore of the social fabric—lurk the mathematically disinclined. A recent Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) survey serves to remind the forgetful just how awful Americans are at math. The U.S. came in 24th out of the 29 OECD countries ranked...
Many students at top American universities and colleges feel partisan political pressure from professors according to a recently released survey conducted by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA...
...survey also reported that students find biased professors more likely to express liberal sentiments than conservative leanings...
...survey found that 46 percent of students say professors “use the classroom to present their personal political views.” Forty-two percent of students complain that readings for classes do not present both sides of controversial issues, and 29 percent say that they feel they must agree with professors’ political views to do well in their classes...
...survey consisted of interviews of 658 randomly selected students at the top 25 national universities and the top 25 national liberal arts colleges, as defined by U.S. News & World Report. Anne D. Neal ’77, a Crimson editor and president of the ACTA, which commissioned the study, said that more than half of the students surveyed were in courses unrelated to political issues. She said that her group commissioned the survey to give university and college leaders data on what has long been an anecdotal issue...