EducationCommentary
When a school system draws racial boundary lines and denies entry to qualified students on the basis of race, it doesn’t matter if it’s done… Read More
EducationCommentary
Colleges have been around for centuries. College students have also been around for centuries. Yet, college administrators assume that today’s students have needs that were… Read More
EducationCommentary
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order reiterating that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act protects Jews—just as every other race,… Read More
EducationCommentary
With Christmastime comes college football’s bowl season, with games all day, nearly every day. Starting last Friday with Buffalo against Charlotte in the Bahamas (1,235… Read More
EducationCommentary
“The biggest problem plaguing U.S. public schools [is] a lack of resources.” So claims Robert Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of… Read More
EducationCommentary
If it’s OK for drag queens to host story hour, what about prostitutes? At one Austin, Texas, elementary school, students got both. In what some… Read More
EducationCommentary
Louisville, Kentucky, public school teacher Paul Barnwell was distressed by his 11th-grade students’ response to this hypothetical moral quandary: “If your significant other commits a… Read More
EducationCommentary
Federal “Highly Qualified Teacher” mandates. Adequate Yearly Progress requirements. Smaller learning communities. Improving Teacher Quality State Grants. Reading First. Early Reading First. The dozens of… Read More
EducationCommentary
Officials in the state of Maryland have banned a school from their voucher program due to its faith-based views on gay marriage and transgenderism. The… Read More
Education Analysis
Schools are increasingly moving in a radical direction on sex ed, LGBT activism, and more. “When we’re talking … about the transgender issues and education,… Read More
EducationCommentary
Washington is abuzz that private-sector productivity growth has been low for the past decade or so, but do federal policymakers really know how to improve… Read More
EducationCommentary
Americans have long suspected that, for many, a college degree simply isn’t worth the price. American taxpayers—two-thirds of whom do not have a college degree—are… Read More
EducationCommentary
This year’s education scandal saw parents shelling out megabucks to gain college admittance for their children. Federal prosecutors have charged more than 50 people with… Read More
Education Analysis
What does it mean to truly be educated? Great Hearts Academies, a series of charter schools in Texas and Arizona, is focused on a classical… Read More
EducationCommentary
Worcester, the second largest city in solidly blue Massachusetts, was the scene of a sex ed showdown between Planned Parenthood and concerned parents and church… Read More
Education Analysis
Charles Mitchell, who leads the Commonwealth Foundation in Pennsylvania, is worried about children’s access to charter schools in the Keystone State. “Our governor has declared… Read More
Education Analysis
Should students go straight to college after high school? Tommy Nelson, senior pastor of Denton Bible Church, would argue no. “If they are Christian kids… Read More
EducationCommentary
In 2018, I resigned as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and an overseer of its law school to protest the shameful treatment of… Read More
EducationFeature
The word “socialism” has left behind its past of breadlines and beatings and has come to mean something like “kindness” for some students at Georgetown… Read More
EducationCommentary
I live in Fairfax County, Virginia, which has the 10th-largest public school district in the nation, but I never focused on our public schools. My… Read More
EducationCommentary
Parents in Loudoun County, Virginia, are outraged after discovering that thousands of books were placed in classrooms across the school district this year as part… Read More
EducationNews
School systems across the country are seeking to abolish honors classes, teach how math has been used to oppress people, and let truant students into… Read More
EducationCommentary
Across the country, math and reading scores have continued a yearslong stagnation, with students largely showing no progress in academic achievement. That’s one major takeaway… Read More
EducationNews
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos criticized the state of American students’ education Wednesday, saying the United States is in a “student achievement crisis.” DeVos referred to… Read More
EducationCommentary
Student loan debt keeps growing. There is a better solution than the ones politicians offer, which stick the taxpayer or the loan lenders with the… Read More
EducationCommentary
The culture war is coming for you, whether you like it or not. It’s no secret that American history is under attack. The ethos of… Read More
EducationCommentary
With the school year in full swing, anxious parents hope their children are content in their local schools. Families worry about finding the right school… Read More
Education Analysis
This week on “Problematic Women” we talk with Lindsey Burke, The Heritage Foundation’s education fellow, about a new collection of essays, “The Not-So-Great Society.” Burke,… Read More
EducationNews
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s vision for a Great Society unleashed an army of bureaucrats on American schools but produced little or no improvements to public… Read More
EducationCommentary
House Democrats on Tuesday introduced a bill that combines some of the worst higher education policies into one bundle. The bill, titled the College Affordability… Read More
