April Newsletter
Tracking Civics Legislation, Climbing Down,
and NAS Job Openings

Featured Articles

April 12, 2021

Tracking American Civics Legislation

David Randall

We're tracking proposed American civics education bills, both on the federal and state level, and have organized our data here for public use. The Civics Bill Tracker is part of NAS’s broader Civics Alliance, a new coalition dedicated to defending and restoring true civics education across the United States. To join the Alliance, click here.

April 08, 2021

Climbing Down: How the Next Generation Science Standards Diminish Scientific Literacy

Jennifer Helms, James Nations, and David Randall

This report details how the popular curriculum omits basic tenets of science, including the scientific method, and provides recommendations to correct deficiencies in the NGSS.

April 08, 2021

Biden’s “Comprehensive Review” of Title IX

NAS

The Biden Administration is setting the stage for a reversal of Title IX's foundling due process protections.

April 07, 2021

Scapegoating 101

NAS

NAS opposes the recent actions of several law schools that have disciplined faculty members for having pointed to the below average academic performance of minority students.

Announcements


NAS is Hiring!

The National Association of Scholars has two job openings—Leader Researcher: DEI in the Sciences Project; Project Lead: Keeping the Republic. To read more and download the two job descriptions, click here.

Scholars Announce Launch of The Civics Alliance

NAS is pleased to announce The Civics Alliance, a new coalition dedicated to defending and restoring true civics education across the United States. Click to read more and join the Alliance.

Application Process Now Open for the AHI's Washington Program on National Security

Applications are now open for Alexander Hamilton Institute's acclaimed Washington Program on National Security (WaPoNS) in Washington, DC, June 16 to 30. Click here to read more and apply.

History Camp America Call for Speakers

History camp is looking for our nation’s most interesting and informative history presenters—authors, researchers, and teachers, historians, Park Rangers, and docents. Click to read more and apply.

Government Education Jobs

Every month the National Association of Scholars will post a list of U.S. Government jobs pertaining to the education sector. Click here to access our excel spreadsheet of current job opportunities. (Updated April 05, 2021).

Events

Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History

Join author Stephen Chrisomalis and moderator Stephen Houston for a conversation about Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History. In Reckonings, Chrisomalis considers how humans past and present have used numerals.

Media

1675-1678 - King Philip's War

Watch the webinar recording and discover how King Philip's War shaped the character of colonial Americans, featuring Jason Warren, Philip Ranlet, and Michael Tougias.

Sub-Standard Science

Watch the launch event of our report, Climbing Down, our analysis of the Next Generation Science Standards, featuring James Nations, David Randall, Shepard Barbash, Duke Pesta, and Ze'ev Wurman.

1776: The American Character in History and Teaching

Listen in as Conor Friedersdorf, Jason Ross, Bob Woodson, and Bruce Gilley discuss why 1776 is such an important date, and how the principles exercised and spoken in that year are inclusive of America's full diversity.

The Mayflower Compact

Watch our webinar on the long struggle for liberty brought about by social contracts throughout history, the thinkers of the time, and other topics that influenced The Mayflower Compact and the American republic. Featuring Daniel Dreisbach and Mark David Hall.

Member Publications

Roland Alum

"Recordando a Álvaro Ínsua, un cubano desconocido y olvidado" [Remembering Álvaro Ínsua—An unknown and forgotten Cuban]
CubaNet. February 19, 2021. 
 

Jay Bergman

"Opinion: Perception, reality of racism in America at odds"
Connecticut Post. April 09, 2021.
 

John A. Budny

Claudio Cioffi-Revilla

"The Scope of Computational Social Science" [in Handbook of Computational Social Science]
London, UK: Routledge. February 2021.
 
"Nuclear Deterrence Theory in the Early Cold War, 1945-1962" [in Oxford Encyclopedia of International Studies]
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. September 2020.
 

Robert Maranto [with Martha Bradley-Dorsey]

Margarita A. Mooney

Love of Learning: Seven Dialogues on the Liberal Arts [forthcoming]
Providence, RI: Cluny Media. June 15, 2021.
 

Juliana Geran Pilon

"It’s All in the Telling" [review]
Connecticut Post. April 09, 2021.
 
"Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg" [review]
Cato Journal. Spring/Summer 2020.
 
"Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Terrorists" [review]
Terrorism and Political Violence. Vol. 32, No. 4, 2020.
 

Philip Carl Salzman

Howard S. Schwartz

"Racism as Absence"
New English Review. October 2020.
 


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