Teachers Unions Use Political Clout To Keep Classrooms Closed
The public school system is a travesty that does not—and cannot—put students first.
The public school system is a travesty that does not—and cannot—put students first.
"The push for college came at the expense of every other form of education," says Mike Rowe.
Punishing players for kneeling, or not kneeling, is a First Amendment violation at public universities.
Columbia University linguist John McWhorter on "anti-racism" as a new, misguided civic religion and his new book on curses, Nine Nasty Words.
The new framework aims to keep everyone learning at the same level for as long as possible.
Amid message confusion, report shows teachers union fingerprints on the CDC's school reopening guidance.
The opposition to Southlake's plan was understandable.
Despite their professed goals, Democrats' pandemic policies have widened disparities between races, classes, and genders.
"[Daniel] Pollack-Pelzner ... is [also] one of many Linfield faculty members and students who have pushed back against the allegedly poor handling of sexual abuse and [harassment] claims by the administration."
The Supreme Court weighs the power of school officials to punish students for off-campus speech.
This is a subsidy for the schools, not the students.
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The article is co-written by Prof. Randall Kennedy (Harvard), a leading scholar of race and the law, and me.
Unresponsive government institutions fuel state-level measures to help parents and children pick learning models that suit them.
When government doesn't deliver, voters look for unpolished candidates from outside government. Go figure.
Now 14 states have legislation explicitly protecting free speech on campus.
The latest data underscore an appallingly partisan split on what should be a more science-based decision.
"The notion that a school can discipline a student for that kind of...non-harassing expression is contrary to our First Amendment tradition."
Deprived of social interaction for a period of time that constitutes a significant percentage of their short lives, kids are falling apart.
Leveling that grave accusation at every aspect of American life will produce disengagement, alienation, and reaction.
The mandatory online training requires users to select the “right” speech before they finish.
"Terror and dread fill academic workers, professors, and staff alike, and it is everywhere."
A shocking 12 percent enrollment drop in New York City points to possible long-term structural impacts of the pandemic.
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.
Kieran Bhattacharya's First Amendment lawsuit can proceed, a court said.
An interesting controversy involving Portland State University.
A free online conference sponsored by the LeFrak Forum on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy at Michigan State University.
L.A. teachers win $500 childcare concession, though New York union still holding firm on anti-scientific 2-case rule.
The article shows how the left and right-wing versions of hostility to Asians have much in common.
The chaos at Lake Washington Institute of Technology is by no means an isolated occurrence.
In the name of helping racial minorities, officials are adopting a plan that would boost whites at the expense of Asian Americans.
Perhaps young people would be better served by having access to more job sampling opportunities.
Education Department says its goal is to make sure borrowers in default get their tax refunds.
Giving kids more educational options would help produce the long-term change activists want.
Kentucky is now the 28th state with some form of school choice.
"This is why people need to beat their kids," one officer remarked.
A federal appellate court lets a professor's First Amendment claim go forward, in an opinion that powerfully protects faculty academic freedom more broadly.
The government has pocketed millions of dollars from immigrants who came to the U.S. legally—and has refused to pay them back.