Education
Utah Elementary School Fires Art Teacher for Showing Students Classical Nudes
Parents complained about postcards that were part of an educational set kept in the school library.
Misguided Preschool Mandate Will Cost D.C. Parents and Teachers But Won't Help Kids
All day care workers will have to get a specialized degree by 2020 or risk losing their jobs.
Chicago Public Schools Execs Lied, Altered Records to Cover Up Wrongdoing
The school system's CEO and general counsel have both resigned over the scandal.
D.C. Miracle Turnaround School Exposed as a Fraud
A investigation released today shows how Ballou High School graduated a whole class of seniors despite rampant absenteeism and failing test scores.
Can't Pay Your Student Loans? In Some States, That Means You Can't Work Either.
Taking away someone's ability to earn money seems like a shortsighted way to get loans repaid.
Mom Faces Wiretapping Charges for Trying to Protect Child from School Bullies
Administrators didn't respond, so she turned to a recording device to get evidence. Now she faces jail.
Graduate Instructor Who Showed Gendered-Pronoun Debate to Class Is Basically Hitler, Says School
"It's dangerous to say that a topic is off the table just because it might be a little bit controversial," says the Wilfrid Laurier University student.
Fearing 'Terrorism,' Middle School Cancels D.C. Trip
Just because the world is not perfectly safe does not mean it is terribly dangerous.
Are Your Kids Too Fragile? How to Make the Next Generation More Resilient.
Lenore Skenazy, Jonathan Haidt, Peter Gray, and Daniel Shuchman launch, Let Grow, a non-profit devoted to promoting better policies for raising children.
Just How Much Did Nancy MacLean Get Wrong?
Despite being a finalist for the National Book Awards, Democracy in Chains is fatally flawed history.
Texas Senior Suspended for Not Standing for Pledge of Allegiance
Lawsuit claims administrators were "whipped into a frenzy" by media coverage of NFL players' protests.
Fuzzy Math Infects the Governor's Race
School spending should focus on results, not just how much is spent.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
Smith Students Get Lecture on Libertarian Connection to 'Traditional Bigotry'
What? Libertarianism is an intellectual and political tradition with roots in radical equality movements.
No, Harvard Students, Betsy DeVos Is Not a 'White Supremacist'
More school choice, and fewer Title IX kangaroo courts, would actually help black students.
College Isn't Higher Education and May No Longer Be the Best Way to Deliver the Goods
Many Americans are said to be turning against higher education. They may just be sick of an expensive and dysfunctional model that's outlived its usefulness.
Feminist Group Loses Fight to Declare Yik Yak App a Civil-Rights Violation
Court rejects Title IX complaint against University of Mary Washington over failure to ban the social-media platform from its campus
Union-Run Schools Dump Struggling Kids on Charters
Public schools cherry-picking students, something they once accused charters of doing.
Stop Subsidizing Football
Taxpayers shouldn't be supporting a sport that's giving kids brain damage and shouldn't build stadiums for billionaire NFL owners either.
Proposed Free Community College in Seattle Will be Anything But
Past programs have blown budgets and funneled money to well-off students
The Junk Science Behind 'Smarter Lunchrooms'
A federal program to help public-school students eat healthier is based on highly problematic-and perhaps fraudulent-research.
Racially Motivated School-Secession Case Shows Need for Expanded School Choice
The NAACP has filed an appeal to stop the secession, on the grounds that race was an underlying factor in creating the new school district.
Local NAACP Leader Defies Own Group, Supports New Florida Charter School
It's not racist to want access to school choice. It's racist to deny it.
Stossel: Private School Success Around the World
In South Korea, the best teachers are paid like star athletes. Why can't U.S. schools reward talent?
Stossel: Government-Run Schools Crush Innovation
The public education system is failing our kids. Here's how to fix it.
School Choice Can Heal the Division in Charlottesville
Studies show students in schools of choice have more respect for the rights of people they don't like.
School to Former Students: Shut Up About James Alex Fields' Nazi Past
Why are Boone County Schools bureaucrats trying to whitewash the Charlottesville murder suspect's history?
Parent 'Trigger' Win in California Shines Light on Dysfunctional Public School System
Anaheim school district resisted effort tooth and nail.
Police, Teachers Unions Protect Workers at Expense of Public
It's how their rules were made to work.
