U. Wisconsin Denies Plan to Distribute Grades According to Race
Clearly all people contribute to diversity in one way or another.
Education
Major Win For School Choice: Charter Students Smarter, Earn More
Market incentives and individual choice are the best tools for fixing American education.
Affirmative Action = Discrimination Against Asians, NYC Schools Edition
It's very difficult for low-income 13-year-olds to cobble together appealing resumes.
Ohio U. 'Not a Police State' Even Though Admins Banned Smoking, Will Force Cessation On Non-Compliers
Definitely not a police state.
Paying Teachers According to Seniority is Nonsensical and Ineffective
Paying teachers according to their degree attainment is also silly.
Maryland Tested Kids on Material It No Longer Teaches, Guess What Happened?
Scores were predictably low.
The Free Press Is Suing UMich For Routinely Violating Open Meetings Law
In the last year, the regents voted on 116 public matters, and only 8 of those times were there any dissenting votes.
Common Core Is Crony Capitalism for Computer Companies
Who wants to bet that Core-aligned standardized testing requires Windows 8?
Obama Administration Choking Off Student Loans, Which Is Good News
For-profit schools get deserved flak, but the public universities lock kids into years of debt, too.
Boise State U. Charged Libertarian Students Gigantic 'Security Fee' to Host Pro-Gun Speaker
Sadly, Boise State seems like quite the unfree hellhole.
Big Government and the Campus Rape Controversy
Former government officials find lucrative new work in higher education.
Breaking: Students Sue OSU Over Crazy Illegal Campus Gun Ban
Public universities can't trump state law and establish even stricter anti-gun policies.
Texas Celebrates Fourth of July By Ousting Corrupt UT Austin President
Thankfully, it looks like corrupt college administrators will no longer be able to keep the extent of their wrongdoing a secret from the public.
Philly School Reform Group Fights Seniority-Based Staffing Rules
Philadelphia students, teachers, and parents deserve better than seniority-based staffing delivers.
Mom Vows to Fight School That Charged Her Little Boy with 'Sexual Misconduct' for Harmless Playground Antics
The mother of the Nevada kindergartner who was formally accused of sexual misconduct has vowed to fight the charges.
Hearing Examiner: School Was Right to Suspend Little Boy Who Chewed Pop-Tart Into Shape of Gun
School policies prohibit "lookalike weapons" as well as real ones, even though no one was ever shot to death by a pastry.
'Affirmative Consent': The Sex Police on the Defensive
Even advocates aren't sure exactly what affirmative consent means or how it will work. What could go wrong?
In Major Announcement, FIRE Says It Will Sue Every College With a Speech Code Until Speech Codes Die Forever
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education announced a major litigation effort Tuesday against universities that maintain clearly illegal speech codes.
LA Schools Realize Giving Every Kid an iPad Was a Costly Disaster, Will Give Every Kid a Laptop Instead
The entire thing was an unmitigated disaster-a clear example of real life trumping the good intentions of bureaucrats.
Want Less Campus Rape? Lower the Damn Drinking Age Already
This would discourage the sort of black out drinking most likely to lead to sexual assault disputes.
Common Core Tests: So Difficult, Bureaucrats Had to Implement a Curve Under Which Kids Can Guess Randomly and Still Pass
One gets the impression that public education bureaucrats don't have their new system totally figured out.
Expulsion Now Mandatory for Dartmouth Students Convicted By Campus Rape Tribunal Under Low Evidence Standard
Automatically expelling all students found guilty of rape is a perfectly defensible policy, but only if guilt is adjudicated in an actual criminal trial.
Professor: Epidemic of Campus Sexual Assault at UMich… Has Been Shrinking For a Decade
Sexual assault at U-M has declined notably and in line with national statistics, casting doubt on the left's characterization of the problem as an "epidemic."
Education Dept. Forced to Apologize For Funny Bridesmaids Meme, Because Everything Offends Everyone
The U.S. Department of Education issued an apology after an outcry materialized over an apparently offensive Tweet.
The Populist Uprising Against Common Core Is Libertarian and It's Winning
It recognizes that there is no one answer to fixing education in America.
District: Sorry Kids, No More Birthday Cake In School—Try a Delicious Pencil Instead
Just let them eat cake.
Sotomayor Praises Affirmative Action and Legacy Admissions, Doesn't Realize Those Things Are Awful
Sotomayor thinks legacy admissions are somehow helping the disadvantaged, when in reality they do the opposite.
Just What Indebted Students Needed: Hideously Expensive Luxury Dorms
Can students afford a night at the Ritz Carlton University?
Obama's Deficient Student Loan Plan
But thinking that more federal aid will make college affordable is like believing that a dog can catch its tail if it goes faster.
