Public Schools Experiencing 'White Flight'
Whether in response to pandemic closures or policy changes made in the name of "equity," people classified as white are fleeing government-run K-12 in startling numbers.
Whether in response to pandemic closures or policy changes made in the name of "equity," people classified as white are fleeing government-run K-12 in startling numbers.
The EconTalk host and Wild Problems author talks about the limits of cost-benefit analyses.
"There's a new special interest group in town: parents."
Justice Scalia, to the rescue.
I think the letter's analysis as to contraceptives is inconsistent with the statutes, and with a binding Supreme Court precedent.
It was filed by Pacific Legal Foundation public interest lawyer Frank Garrison, and includes a novel strategy for getting around the problem of standing.
According to a new report for the Congressional Budget Office, student loan debt forgiveness will likely completely wipe out gains made by the Inflation Reduction Act—and then some.
Even if credentialed teachers help kids learn more, it’s not worth making D.C. day cares prohibitively expensive and pushing experienced teachers out of jobs.
"This isn't how laws are supposed to be made," says Caleb Kruckenberg, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation.
Guidance given to faculty about effects of state abortion law raises troubling academic freedom questions
The school-choice scholar and activist explains why "backpack funding" is here to stay, why Texas is terrible on school choice, why CRT bans are a bad idea, and why even non-parents should care about radical reform.
To defend the Stop WOKE Act, Florida asks court to eliminate any academic freedom exception to government employee speech doctrine
Even though it might cause pearl-clutching, there is nothing obscene about drag shows.
Why should low-income children be the only ones still forced to wear masks?
We’re likely to be poorer, distrustful, and less free for years to come.
But Biden can't forgive billions of dollars in student loans if the COVID-19 national emergency is over.
Plus: The editors have gripes with Biden’s recent interview on 60 Minutes.
If the pandemic is over, then how is the supposed emergency move justified?
In the popular imagination, teachers are compensated terribly. What about in the real world?
More universities than ever are now requiring lengthy DEI statements from job applicants. Is that good for academic freedom?
A conversation with the outgoing president of Purdue University and former Republican governor of Indiana.
The intellectual watchdog keeps tabs on everyone from The 1619 Project's Nikole Hannah-Jones to Mises Institute's Hans-Hermann Hoppe in the name of serious scholarship.
Some conservative media outlets and politicians lambast the practice. But if you care about public safety, that opposition doesn't make sense.
In six states, accepting student loan forgiveness is likely to result in an increased tax bill.
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Intellectual watchdog Phil Magness talks Nikole Hannah-Jones, Nancy MacLean, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Kevin Kruse.
Even as gas prices continued to tumble, rising prices for food and housing pushed inflation higher in August and proved that prices aren't cooling off yet.
Plus: The editors respond to a question about the Forward Party.
After a whole year of COVID-related learning loss, kids are now losing out on even more instructional time thanks to Seattle's teachers union.
A new survey from FIRE shows one-third of college students report it is “sometimes” or “always” acceptable to shout down a controversial campus speaker.
The host of EconTalk and author of Wild Problems says our biggest decisions don't submit to easy cost-benefit analyses.
Democrats and Republicans share dismay over how educators handled the pandemic and support alternatives.
Teachers unions and progressive politicians pushed for school closures during the pandemic. New assessments of 9-year-olds suggest a devastating learning loss.
Sixth post in the symposium on the National Constitution Center "Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy" project. Edward Foley of Team Progressive highlights some points of agreement between the three reports.
The likely answer is "yes." There are three types of potential litigants who probably qualify.
Relying on Section 432(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as some propose, has many of the same flaws as the Administration's emergency powers theory.
Like Trump's policy, it's an illegal usurpation of Congress' power of the purse under a dubious emergency power pretext.
By forcing kids to learn from home, teachers unions did more to promote the need for radical K-12 education reform than a million activists.
New poll shows majority of Americans oppose student loan forgiveness once they become aware of the obvious tradeoffs involved, like higher inflation and rising tuition prices.
Fifth post in the symposium on the National Constitution Center "Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy" project. Walter Olson of Team Libertarian comments on similarities and differences between the three reports.
From student debt cancellation to green subsidies, the White House is giving handouts paid for by hardworking lower-wage Americans.
Unionization helps some. But it hurts more.
The venerable champion of civil liberties is increasingly indistinguishable from myriad progressive advocacy groups.
"In January 2020, you called for 'an involuntary evaluation' of President Trump, and you said, 'I am beginning to believe a mental health hold ... will become inevitable.' That same month, you publicly suggested that President Trump, Rudolph Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz had a 'shared psychosis.'"
The administration is creating a system where everyone involved in higher education has an incentive to fleece the American people.