EducationCommentary
Why Massachusetts Gave Up on Common Core
The state Board of Education in Massachusetts has decided to retreat from common core and develop its own state tests—to the dismay of Common Core… Read More
EducationCommentary
Student Protesters React to Paris: ‘Pay More Attention to Us’
Millions of people worldwide were horrified to learn that Paris had been attacked by terrorists. But some supporters of the student protests at the University… Read More
EducationNews
‘These Are Tyrannical Students’: What a Former Harvard Professor Thinks of College Protests
Watching student protests spread like wildfire across college campuses nationwide, a former Harvard Law School professor of 50 years is speaking out, warning that students… Read More
EducationCommentary
Not Much for Conservatives to Love in No Child Left Behind Rewrite
There isn’t much for conservatives to love in the policies put forward in the proposed rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization currently… Read More
EducationCommentary
A Conservative Student’s Take On the Recent College Protests
Can liberalism defend itself from its progeny? This question is rarely considered by liberals themselves. But after seeing the disturbances on America’s campuses over the… Read More
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A Professor’s Take: College Student Protests Echo 1960s Protests
Recent student protests, which began at the University of Missouri and at Yale, are likely to spread across the country, given the reactions of both… Read More
EducationNews
Students Across US Demand Free College, Stumble Over Who Will Foot the Bill
Students swarmed college campuses across the nation Thursday to rally against the rising costs of higher education, demanding free college tuition, the zeroing out of… Read More
EducationCommentary
Public University Joins LGBT Radicals in Targeting Professor Who Thinks Kids Should Have Mom, Dad
Kim Davis. Aaron and Melissa Klein. Barronelle Stutzman. Robert Oscar Lopez? For many conservatives, the first four names—Americans who have faced state-sanctioned discrimination for trying… Read More
EducationCommentary
Federal Intervention in Schools Looks to Remain in Force Through Possible No Child Left Behind Deal
House and Senate proposals to rewrite No Child Left Behind are set to head into conference early next week, and details about an agreement struck… Read More
EducationNews
What a College Student Said When Neil Cavuto Asked Her How Free Public College Would Be Paid For
Keely Mullen, a student organizer of the Million Student March, struggled to answer Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto’s questions regarding how the goals of the… Read More
EducationCommentary
Can Opposing Same-Sex Marriage Get You Fired at Marquette University?
MADISON, Wis.—John McAdams remains in professional limbo at his Jesuit school. The long-time Marquette University political science professor at the center of one of the most controversial academic… Read More
EducationCommentary
How a 1800s Anti-Catholic Law Is Ruining Kids’ Chance at a Quality Education
“Dismal.” “A train wreck.” That’s how people have characterized the results of this year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress. The NAEP assesses fourth and eighth-graders’… Read More
EducationCommentary
Cartoon: College Then and Now
Earlier this week Andrew Kloster wrote on the recent events at the University of Missouri: The University of Missouri at Columbia (Mizzou), the state’s flagship public university,… Read More
EducationNews
Is This the Next Mizzou? As Racial Tensions Rise, Ithaca College President Faces Mounting Criticism
Around a thousand miles northeast of the University of Missouri, where racial tensions and protests led to the resignation of the university president, students and… Read More
EducationNews
They Claimed Giving All Students Free School Lunches Would Raise Test Scores. Here’s What Happened.
In 2014, education leaders ranging from the U.S. secretary of education down to local school officials promised that kids would do better if districts adopted a federal… Read More
EducationCommentary
Mizzou Proves That Americans Should Not Be Forced Into Racial Categories
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is, like all bureaucracies, humorless and unyielding—and it is no less so when it comes to balkanizing or fragmenting Americans…. Read More
EducationCommentary
University of Missouri and Yale Show What Mob Rule Looks Like in Higher Education
America’s universities are supposed to be places where students can get an education. The vast majority of students want that. Some, however, do not. They… Read More
EducationNews
As School Meals Have Gotten Healthier, 1.4 Million Students Drop Out of School Lunch Program
Michelle Obama’s healthy school meal standards have scored not too tasty. Over a span of three school years, 1.4 million children dropped out of the… Read More
EducationFeature
How Dennis Prager’s Conservative Online University Reaches Millions
Radio host Dennis Prager and his business partner Allen Estrin had a big problem on their hands. It was October, 2013. Several years earlier, the… Read More
EducationNews
Challenger Unseats School Board Member Who Supported Transgender Policy
A school board member in Northern Virginia who supported a new policy on transgender students lost re-election Tuesday at the polls. The Fairfax County School… Read More
EducationCommentary
What This College President Thinks Obama’s College Scorecard Is Missing
The U.S. Department of Education has released its “College Scorecard,” a searchable college-affordability database that President Obama described as containing “reliable data on every institution of… Read More
EducationCommentary
Countdown: District Has 30 Days to Change Transgender Student Locker Room Policy or Lose Federal Funds
Uncle Sam isn’t going to let schools place certain restrictions on how transgender students use a single-sex locker room. A school district near Chicago, Palatine… Read More
EducationCommentary
More Spending Adds Up to Underwhelming Math and Reading Scores
New results are in from the test known as the “report card” for the nation’s schools, and they’re not good. The U.S. Department of Education… Read More
EducationCommentary
What’s Wrong With Obama’s ‘Aggressive’ Plan to Limit School Testing
From the administration that brought you Common Core national standards and tests comes the news that the White House and Department of Education now are… Read More
EducationNews
Will Obama’s New Guidelines Actually Reduce Testing in Schools? Probably Not Much
The Obama administration responded to stacked complaints about excessive testing in schools, announcing new guidelines over the weekend that would scale back ballooned emphasis on… Read More
EducationCommentary
This School District Is Standing Up to the Federal Government’s Bullying Over Transgender Students and Locker Rooms
When it comes to locker rooms, does a public school have the right to say it should be restricted to of the students of the… Read More
EducationNews
After Parents File Lawsuit, Tennessee County Reverses Decision to Close Schools Over Obamacare
Clay County Director of Schools Jerry Strong announced Thursday that all campuses will remain open, despite the school board voting to close all schools in… Read More
EducationNews
Should Teachers Be Allowed to Ditch Their Classrooms to Work For the Union? Two Lawmakers Want to Stop Practice.
PHILADELPHIA—City schools are struggling to find teachers, but the district and local teachers union have an agreement that permits dozens of them to abandon their… Read More
EducationNews
Boehner’s D.C. School Choice Program Passed by House: ‘We Owe the Kids in This City a Chance’
Speaker John Boehner cinched victory Wednesday as House Republicans smoothly extended his linchpin private school voucher program for low-income students through 2021. The D.C. Opportunity… Read More
EducationNews
Should Some High School Teachers Have to Have a Masters? In Minnesota, That’s a Fight
Minnesota educators, legislators, and students took turns at an unusual October legislative hearing, schooling the Higher Learning Commission’s top official on the “crippling effect” of… Read More
