EducationNews
Some school districts were successful in distance learning during the spring COVID-19 outbreak, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Wednesday, but far too many were disappointments… Read More
EducationCommentary
School districts around the country have been announcing reopening possibilities for the upcoming school year. The options often include full-time virtual learning, two or three… Read More
EducationCommentary
July is typically a busy month for State Department consular officers around the world interviewing student visa applicants as many foreign students seek to travel… Read More
EducationCommentary
Thomas Sowell has just published “Charter Schools and Their Enemies.” He presents actual test scores of students in traditional public schools and charter schools on… Read More
EducationCommentary
One size does not fit all when it comes to education. The COVID-19 pandemic has made this education choice adage crystal clear. With schools shuttered… Read More
EducationCommentary
Does it matter more if you can do a job well or if you have a piece of paper that says you can probably do… Read More
EducationCommentary
When mobs tore down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant and defaced a monument to African American veterans of the Civil War, many people wondered… Read More
EducationCommentary
In a 5-4 decision Tuesday, the Supreme Court held that families have a right to seek the best educational opportunities for their children, by preventing… Read More
EducationCommentary
America’s service members long have been concerned about the lack of access to effective schools for their children. In fact, more than a third of… Read More
EducationCommentary
High school-educated, working-class parents aren’t capable of overseeing their own child’s education, a state lawmaker said last week. New Hampshire state Sen. Jeanne Dietsch, D-Peterborough,… Read More
EducationCommentary
You shouldn’t build a “national church” if you’re a “minority religion,” University of Arkansas professor Jay Greene has cautioned for years. By that, Greene… Read More
EducationCommentary
We are seeing some rays of optimism after the COVID-19 pandemic has forced school districts to close for months: Montana and Texas have become the… Read More
EducationNews
George Washington University issued an apology Wednesday to students after sending an email about an upcoming police employment fair. The chair of the sociology department,… Read More
EducationCommentary
College administrators have two things on their minds right now: how to reopen their campuses safely, and what steps they need to take to survive… Read More
EducationCommentary
How do you spell “canceled”? Does it take one “l” or two? According to the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary, the official dictionary of the Scripps National… Read More
EducationCommentary
A driving force behind the establishment of public schools in America was to cultivate civic values in students. As Horace Mann, the father of the… Read More
EducationAnalysis
Hillsdale College will be one of the only colleges, if not the only college, this year planning to hold an in-person commencement ceremony for its… Read More
EducationCommentary
When elementary and secondary schools began closing in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, most parents assumed they would reopen in a matter of weeks…. Read More
EducationCommentary
We have a serious problem in this country with civics education and history. Not only are there widespread efforts to undermine the country’s founding principles,… Read More
EducationCommentary
Homeroom has taken on a literal meaning over the past two months. Parents, while always their children’s first and foremost educators, have had to fully… Read More
EducationCommentary
The government has closed most schools. So, more parents are teaching kids at home. That upsets the government school monopoly. Education “experts” say parents lack… Read More
EducationCommentary
The battle over the Department of Education’s borrower defense to repayment rule, which governs student loan repayments when a student claims he has been defrauded… Read More
EducationCommentary
Black politicians, civil rights leaders, and their white liberal advocates have little or no interest in doing anything effective to deal with what’s no less… Read More
EducationCommentary
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the problems of the modern education system home to families—literally. Traditional brick-and-mortar school buildings were abruptly emptied, and parents found themselves… Read More
EducationCommentary
A majority of parents now say they are “somewhat” or “much more” favorable to homeschooling, after experiencing it because of the recent coronavirus-spurred school closures. … Read More
EducationCommentary
The Department of Education just released results of the quadrennial National Assessment of Educational Progress tests in U.S. history, civics, and geography given in 2018… Read More
EducationCommentary
An Ivy League professor says we need to end homeschooling, because parents who homeschool their children are “authoritarian.” In an article in Harvard Magazine‘s latest… Read More
EducationNews
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos called on elite schools Wednesday to follow Stanford University’s example and withdraw applications for CARES Act funding. The Education Department… Read More
EducationCommentary
In what has to be one of the most outrageous, misguided—frankly, garbage—pieces of elitist propaganda this year, Harvard Magazine and Harvard Law School have teamed… Read More
EducationCommentary
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced public schools will be closed for the rest of the academic year due to the new… Read More
