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"A Broadside for the Nation", assembled by ACTA’s National Commission on American History and Civic Education, makes the case for higher ed to restore a required course in US history and government in order to graduate - as well as how to make this vision a reality.
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One week ago, we lost a national treasure with the sudden passing of historian Gordon Wood.
Here he is explaining, with his trademark eloquence, why the Founders did not attempt to abolish slavery - even though almost all of them opposed it.
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Read ACTA's obituary for Dr. Gordon Wood:
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ICYMI: ACTA President Michael Poliakoff chatted with the great Glenn Loury on how to rebuild the American university to its former glory.
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What is the solution to the ongoing crisis of civic ignorance?
ACTA President Michael Poliakoff explains on the latest episode of @GlennLoury's show.
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Dozens of schools have reversed the short-sighted decision to remove standardized testing from admissions.
We're not going to say we told you so, but...
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Columbia University has reinstated standardized testing for admissions — the last Ivy League school to do it.
“Through a multi-year faculty review, it was determined that test scores, among other factors, were a useful indicator of potential student success.”
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The director of this AAUP center complained that Charlie Kirk treated “faculty and students who did not share his preferred ideology as an enemy to be defeated.”
Yet in the clip below he is talking about “naming and shaming” conservative faculty and trying to “knock them out.”
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NEW: The Mellon Foundation gave $1.5 million to establish a "center for the defense of academic freedom."
In audio I've obtained, the group's leader says his goal is to undermine the newly launched classical civics centers: "map who these f---ers are... and knock them out." 🧵
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“Documents provided by Davis Med show that its leadership openly boasted about ‘skirting’ the Supreme Court's ruling by using certain class-based ‘socioeconomic variables’ or ‘disadvantages’ as proxies for race.”
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@CivilRights finds UC Davis Med School’s deliberate use of race “proxies” in admissions illegal & shocking. Despite lower average GPA & MCAT scores, black or Hispanic admission rates were 2-9x higher than whites or Asians. Future doctors must be chosen based on skill, not race!
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The late great Gordon Wood draws a line between the American Revolution and the American Civil War; how the battle to preserve the union was rooted in the same ideals the revolutionaries fought for 85 years prior.
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Professor Wood passed away this past Saturday. He was both a great historian and a source of inspiration. He will be dearly missed.
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Trustees can't represent the public interest if they're muzzled.
ACTA's Nick Down tells @CollegeFix that MSU's "loyalty pledge" for trustees - which includes punishments for those who refuse to sign - erodes public trust and discourages transparency.
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"A Constitution that has lasted for 250 years, pretty soon. The average length of a Constitution's lifetime is, as I remember, about 12 years."
A sneak preview of ACTA president Michael Poliakoff's upcoming appearance this Friday on the Glenn Loury Show:
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8 anti-Israel activists have been charged for allegedly conspiring to intimidate UMich leaders and others by vandalizing their homes and offices.
“They also discussed methods by which to harm the targets and their families, including poison, bombs, and psychological torture.”
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Berkeley Professor Mina Aganagic:
“‘I realized that for students to follow me…I had to start reviewing basic algebra stuff, like fractions.’ The lack of mathematical fluency, Aganagic said, extended even to ‘the meaning of equals in an equation.’”
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ACTA mourns the tragic passing of Gordon Wood this past Sunday. Professor Wood was one of the very greatest historians of the American founding as well as a cherished friend of this organization.
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D-Day was 82 years ago today.
We celebrate the courage of those who fought against Nazi tyranny - but less than half of college students know who was President during D-Day.
ACTA's Dr. Bryan Paul argues that we owe the study of US history to those same brave men.
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Read Dr. Paul's full blog post: goacta.org/2026/06/d-day-com…
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📹 "What does that actually do for the people in Gaza?"
On Radio Free Campus, ACTA's Justin Garrison explains why the anti-Israel comments made at UMich's commencement were not just be empty virtue signalling - but violations of university's policy.
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