California's Costly Experiment With Online Community College Is a Textbook Example of Government Failure
This should be a lesson for anyone who thinks the government should run health care, child care, and just about anything else.
Education
Plexiglass Barriers Are Everywhere, but They're Probably Useless
There's a good chance they haven't been preventing the spread of COVID, and they might even be counterproductive.
Charter-Hating Democrats Now Relying on Charter Schools To Service Families Reluctant To Go Back Into School Buildings
The one-size-fits-all approach to monopolistic K-12 instruction continues to repel even as COVID-19 recedes.
Freddie deBoer: Let's Kill the 'Cult of Smart' and Legacy Media
A third-generation Marxist critiques the contemporary left and discusses what progressives and libertarians might have in common.
Why Does the CFPB Want To Protect Teens From Cryptocurrencies?
Rather than let students weigh crypto costs and benefits on their own, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau claims to know best.
Lawsuit Challenging Racial Balancing and anti-Asian Discrimination at Prominent Selective Public High School Will Proceed
A federal court denied the Fairfax County School Board's motion to dismiss the case.
Randi Weingarten's Hilariously Awful Media Rehabilitation Tour
Teachers union president tries to rebrand as a school-reopener, but parents aren't having it.
Puerto Ricans Flocking To Florida Are Escaping Big Government
More Puerto Ricans live in the 50 states than on the island, and it’s not hard to see why.
Teen Arrested Under Connecticut's Unconstitutional Hate Speech Law for Racist Social Media Post
Calling a classmate a racist slur on Snapchat is offensive. It’s also protected speech.
Americans Don't Want Schools To Punish Off-Campus Speech
Only students support extending the power to penalize speech, raising concerns about what they’re learning in school.
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of 'School Hesitancy'
Shocker: When you keep schools closed, lie about them being death mills, then call opening advocates white supremacists, parents may not be in a hurry to send their kids back to part-time Zoom-in-a-room.
Teachers Unions Use Political Clout To Keep Classrooms Closed
The public school system is a travesty that does not—and cannot—put students first.
Canceling Student Debt Would Be an Insult to Trade Workers
"The push for college came at the expense of every other form of education," says Mike Rowe.
College Soccer Player Suing Coach Who Benched Her After She Refused to Kneel During Protest
Punishing players for kneeling, or not kneeling, is a First Amendment violation at public universities.
In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Who Are Gifted at Math
The new framework aims to keep everyone learning at the same level for as long as possible.
White House: Schools Should 'Probably' Open in the Fall. Also: 'Maybe,' and 'It Depends.'
Amid message confusion, report shows teachers union fingerprints on the CDC's school reopening guidance.
Voters Have Defeated a Texas School District's Plan To Punish Students for Microaggressions
The opposition to Southlake's plan was understandable.
The Equity Mess
Despite their professed goals, Democrats' pandemic policies have widened disparities between races, classes, and genders.
This School Punished a Cheerleader for an Off-Campus Snapchat. Does That Violate the First Amendment?
The Supreme Court weighs the power of school officials to punish students for off-campus speech.
Biden Brings Back Plan for Free Community College
This is a subsidy for the schools, not the students.
Biden Seeks $1.8 Trillion for Public Child Care, Preschool, College
Plus: ACLU opposes menthol cigarette ban, student Snapchat case comes before Supreme Court today, and more...
School Choice Picks Up Steam After Pandemic Closures
Unresponsive government institutions fuel state-level measures to help parents and children pick learning models that suit them.
New York's Failed Political Class Puzzles Over Why Voters Seem To Prefer Outsider Andrew Yang
When government doesn't deliver, voters look for unpolished candidates from outside government. Go figure.
Republicans Open Schools, Democrats Still Keeping Them Closed
The latest data underscore an appallingly partisan split on what should be a more science-based decision.
Can Schools Punish Kids for Off-Campus Snapchats?
"The notion that a school can discipline a student for that kind of...non-harassing expression is contrary to our First Amendment tradition."
When Everything Is 'Systemic Racism,' People Will Tune Out the Term
Leveling that grave accusation at every aspect of American life will produce disengagement, alienation, and reaction.
Kindergartners Abandoning Public School in Fall 2021, Too
A shocking 12 percent enrollment drop in New York City points to possible long-term structural impacts of the pandemic.
These N.C. Lawmakers Want To Police How Kids Express Their Gender
The latest anti-trans salvo isn't just a treatment ban. It forces school officials to snitch on kids who don't act or dress as their birth sex.
Teachers Unions Extracting Final Payouts Before Schools Reopen
L.A. teachers win $500 childcare concession, though New York union still holding firm on anti-scientific 2-case rule.
My "The Hill" Article About Anti-Asian Discrimination on Left and Right
The article shows how the left and right-wing versions of hostility to Asians have much in common.
An Elite Public High School Changed Its Admissions Standards To Reduce the Asian-American Student Population
In the name of helping racial minorities, officials are adopting a plan that would boost whites at the expense of Asian Americans.
Reading, Writing, 'Rithmetic, and Zero About Jobs
Perhaps young people would be better served by having access to more job sampling opportunities.
Education Department To Suspend Payments, Refund Garnished Wages and Tax Returns for Student Loan Borrowers in Default
Education Department says its goal is to make sure borrowers in default get their tax refunds.
Getting Rid of the SAT Won't Diversify Higher Ed. Expanding School Choice Will.
Giving kids more educational options would help produce the long-term change activists want.
Legislators Override Kentucky Governor's Veto of School Choice Bill
Kentucky is now the 28th state with some form of school choice.
ICE's Fake College Defrauded Students, Then Deported Them. The Biden Admin Is Defending the Scheme.
The government has pocketed millions of dollars from immigrants who came to the U.S. legally—and has refused to pay them back.
Kentucky Governor Caves to Special Interests, Vetoes School Choice Bill
Gov. Andy Beshear blocked a bill that would have allowed families to cross district lines in pursuit of better schools.
School Calls Child Services on Mom Who Was 7 Minutes Late to Pick Up Her 10-Year-Old Son
"I'm getting it out there to make people aware," said JaNay Dodson in an interview.
Homeschoolers Triple in Number During the Pandemic
Not only are more families picking alternatives to public schools but, by and large, they like them.
Teachers Unions Hate School-Opening Science Now That They Can't Influence It
Even after the massive Biden stimulus, union head honcho Randi Weingarten complains that schools don't have the resources or ability to fully reopen.
