Why Pandemic Pods are 'the Ultimate In Parent-Driven Education Innovation'
With public schools largely out of commission, parents are putting together their own ad hoc schooling alternatives.
With public schools largely out of commission, parents are putting together their own ad hoc schooling alternatives.
Independent education means a wide range of approaches as to what children are taught.
What does this have to do with safely educating kids in the midst of a pandemic? Not much.
Both outlawry and cancel culture grow out of the same human impulse toward ostracism, the desire to exclude offenders from “respectable” society.
Worried about how the latest COVID-19 workaround might exacerbate inequality? Maybe open the damned elementary schools instead.
The student has now sued Fordham
"The idea that wrongheaded, dangerous, heretical, and blasphemous ideas should be not only allowed but protected is preposterous," says Rauch. And yet, it's "the single most successful social principle ever invented."
Phase 4 of city's reopening means loose rules for zoos but strict requirements for bars.
A new survey finds parents are substantially more satisfied with private and charter schools’ responses to the pandemic than they were with those of traditional public schools.
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The Department of Homeland Security announced in court that it would pull the contentious directive.
When a university president threatens a professor with consequences for writing an article, free expression loses out.
The Reason Roundtable weighs in on the latest coronavirus policy debate.
If you can’t count on schools to perform their core educational responsibilities, why wouldn’t you look elsewhere?
Distorted partisan descriptions of the Department of Education changes could be doing real damage.
The chief justice has managed to infuriate every major political faction.
The professor, the chair of the Central Michigan University journalism department, was teaching a media law class, and quoted a case that discussed the use of the word "nigger" at public universities.
We should fund students instead of systems.
ICE's recent decision to bar foreign students enrolled at universities with online-only classes is the tip of the iceberg of a much larger problem.
We know now that young kids aren't particularly susceptible to catch, transmit, or suffer from Covid-19. Time to give them (and their parents) a break.
This one focuses on student groups that get funding from public colleges, but it's an unconstitutional viewpoint-based restriction.
The Souls of Yellow Folk author says a new "elite consensus" fixated on racial outrage is forming and may destroy our ability to function.
Good news for free association at college!
The decision is an important victory against government discrimination on the basis of religion.
SCOTUS rules 5-4 in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue.
These big disruptions to the education system are not necessary to fight COVID-19.
"To survive as a ... professor requires constant self-censorship and compromise, especially in the humanities .... Resistance comes at a cost .... [H]er colleague ..., a law professor, was interrogated and suspended from teaching after publishing a series of essays critical of ...."
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Hold agencies and regulators accountable for outcomes, not compliance.
San Francisco and Oakland have moved toward getting police out of its schools, while Chicago and L.A. rejected similar proposals this week.
The Brown University economist says prejudice and systemic racism are not the primary problems facing African Americans.
Former professor John Cochrane: "I spent much of my last few years of teaching afraid that I would say something that could be misunderstood and thus be offensive to someone."
He remains a tenured faculty member.
"We understand that the context in which this phrase was used resulted in a very painful trigger for many of you."
"USC stripped away my hopes and dreams of playing in the NFL, and this ‘win' does not erase that."
Her crime? Spelling out what the rap group N.W.A. stands for, and quoting one of their lyrics.