Providing accreditation to colleges like Wheaton makes a mockery of whatever academic and
intellectual standards the process of accreditation is supposed to uphold.
Not exact matches
Yet, more cleverly exposed are the ways the
intellectual class, in
processing the tale and its history through the
standard academic apparatus, fosters the advent of the next authoritarian regime by its naïve belief in its own objectivity and its refusal to judge Gilead's practices.
But, while in our internal
standards,
intellectual and methodological rigor top the list, we also include others that can conflict with the peer review
process itself: timely, solution - oriented, and clearly communicated.
Duncan's championing of the Common Core State
Standards — and the tests that came shrink - wrapped with them — has ushered in developmentally inappropriate
standards in the early grades that punish late bloomers, while further entrenching the idea that the
intellectual and emotional
process of teaching and learning can be reduced to a test score.
My sense is that a better approach is to recognize, from the start, the reality that shifting energy norms, even as coal remains a core energy source, will be a
process unfolding over decades, and making sure that legislation, while pushing
standards for cutting energy waste and pollution, also focuses on support in all the arenas that matter to building a sustained energy quest — including education to create the
intellectual capacity for such an undertaking and sustained and increased direct support for basic inquiry in science and technology — an area where there's been bipartisan disinterest in federal investment for decades.