Homework. We all did it. OK, we didn’t like it, but it helped us learn, right?

Scott Key, education professor at Fresno Pacific University, isn’t so sure. In fact, he’s convinced the opposite is true. The “insanity” of homework is his subject in this week’s Scholars Speak.

"We have seen the enemy, and he is us."

It's an old joke—few under 50 could identify the source—but it applies to all of us some of the time and some of us, seemingly, all of the time. How can it be that rational people make bad choices? Well, this week's Scholars Speak by FPU Psychology Professor Jay Pope offers some ideas.

Martin Luther King Jr. left a vast legacy for the movement he personified and the nation he loved. But he left more—King left us a vision of America where there is no gap between the words of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence and the actions of both powerful leaders and everyday citizens.

The Military Commissions Act is coming under a great deal of attention right now and Duane Ruth-Heffelbower—a former U.S. Air Force attorney who is now a Fresno Pacific University professor working with peace and conflict issues—has a unique perspective on the act: both the need for it and the need to fix it.

What has education legislation to do with patriotism? Or the military? The answer might surprise you. Sometimes it’s good to read the small print, and Fresno Pacific University Education Professor Scott Key has done just that with No Child Left Behind, the defining document of the Bush Administration’s approach to education. He shares what he found in this week’s Scholars Speak.

"Publish or perish" - we hear it a lot on university campuses: to keep a job, professors must produce learned articles and books. This means they must do research, which sometimes means the only view students get of their teachers is from the far end of a lecture hall.

This is education? That's the question for Rod Janzen, senior scholar, in this week's Scholars Speak.

Slavery: a horrible memory of American history, or an ongoing crisis? As Scott Key, an education professor at Fresno Pacific University, shows in this week's Scholars Speak, slavery has changed its face but is still present among us.

Everyone agrees finishing high school is a good thing - for the student, for the family, for the community. High school graduates earn more, pay more taxes and are less likely to become criminals. Sure, not everyone graduates from high school, but the problem is under control in the Valley and getting better. Right?

Scott Key, an education professor at Fresno Pacific University, isn't so sure. But he does have some ideas on how to help more students stay in school. And without bond issues and building programs. Read his thoughts in this week's Scholars Speak.

Monica, Chandler, Joey, Rachel, Phoebe, Ross—no longer in prime time, they’re still good Friends to millions through the magic of DVD and cable.

What does this generation of 20-somethings have to say to and about their now 30-something fans on marriage, maturity and childrearing? TV watcher/scholar and Fresno Pacific University faculty member Eleanor Hersey has some ideas in this weeks’ Scholars Speaks.