FrontPage is running a piece today on NoIndoctrination.org, the watchdog site that allows students to anonymously assess bias in the classroom. FrontPage joins the Chronicle of Higher Education, the San Francisco Chronicle, and, most notably, the always eloquent Stanley Kurtz in its coverage, and is unique in giving a glimpse of some of the nasty email the site's founder, Luann Wright, has received from academics who think NoIndoctrination.org is everything from "silly" and not "meaningful" to "reminiscent of Nazi Germany." Too bad the FrontPage piece discredits itself by making sloppy errors of fact. The writer misspells both "NoIndoctrination.org" (failing to capitalize the "I" in "indoctrination") and the name of the site's founder (it's "Luann" Wright, not "Louann"). The writer also misreports the name of the UCSD professor whose freshman composition course on race moved Wright to activism (it's not "Laura" Brodkey, but "Linda" Brodkey). Poor editing or a sign of deeper inattention to fact? It doesn't matter in the end--the result is that a piece that could have helped to enhance the credibility of this controversial site comes off instead as an ill-conceived hack job in its own right.

Critical Mass has been tracking NoIndoctrination.org since early October.