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.
Education
Universities Can't Selectively Enforce Nondiscrimination Policies Based on Student Groups' Viewpoints
That’s a clearly established constitutional mandate, the Eighth Circuit holds, so a university can’t get qualified immunity from liability in such a case.
School Choice Is Coming to Union Stronghold West Virginia
School closures are the best thing to happen to educational choice.
Brown University Will Let Students Anonymously Report Title IX Sexual Misconduct
What could go wrong?
Univ. of San Diego Law School Investigating Professor for Post Critical of China
In context, it seems clear that the post's reference to "Chinese" is indeed a reference to the Chinese government, not to people of Chinese extraction.
Everybody Except Teachers Unions Loves the CDC's Revised School Distancing Guidelines
By moving the recommended distance from six feet to three feet, the CDC brings the U.S. back in line with science, and hastens full school reopening.
Can "Retention Raises" for Faculty Constitute Employment Discrimination?
A Ninth Circuit decision that may be of particular interest to academics.
The Education Establishment Fears You Might Teach Your Kids Unapproved Ideas
Public schools can barely teach kids at all, but their defenders don’t want you trying alternatives.
Important New Lawsuit Challenges Attempted Racial Balancing at Prominent Selective Virginia Public High School
The case could set an important precedent because it addresses facially neutral attempts at racial balancing, and because the school in question is currently over 70% Asian-American, and new policy seeks to reduce that percentage.
Bipartisan Support of Child Tax Credits Is Too Hasty
The jury is still out about whether broad parental subsidies improve outcomes for children
Thoughtcrime at Georgetown? "It Is … Wrong for Faculty to Be Thinking -- Not Just Speaking -- …"
... about there being disproportionate number of black students near the bottom of a class.
Report: CDC May Relax Its Disastrously Strict School Distancing Rules
Mounting research shows that the Biden administration's politicized continuation of the six-foot rule last month flouts science and threatens full-time K-12 education in the fall.
Adjunct Law Professor Fired for Saying to Colleague, "A Lot of My Lower [Graded Students] Are Blacks"
Compare: “With the exception of traditionally black law schools ..., the median black law school grade point average is at the 6.7th percentile of white law students.”
Academic Freedom Alliance Panel Discussion
Learn about the AFA and bring your questions
Introducing the Academic Freedom Alliance
A new group defending professorial speech is launched
California's Teachers Unions Are Still Fighting To Keep Children at Home
Despite billions in additional funding and assurances from the CDC and Anthony Fauci that schools can operate safely in person, the unions are holding out for 100 percent vaccination and lower transmission rates.
Biden Wants to Give Federal Workers 15 Weeks of Paid Leave if Their Kids' Schools Stay Closed
The rest of us are out of luck.
Dr. Seuss Is Canceled
President Biden did not mention the famed author in his Read Across America Day speech.
Public Schools Are the Best Advertisements for Homeschooling
Abusive teachers’ unions and floundering bureaucrats make do-it-yourself education pretty attractive.
Donald Trump on School Reopening Failures: Joe Biden and Teachers Unions Have Betrayed America's Youth
The former president's wild CPAC speech was full of misleading claims, but he made a valid point about schools.
Richard Carranza, the Most Divisive Pro-'Equity' Public Official in America, Resigns
New York City's embattled public school system gets a new chancellor. But the influence of the old one will remain, and not just in the Empire State.
On Elite Campuses Like Smith College, Woke Students Have All the Power
Plus: Neera Tanden under siege, drama at CPAC, and more...
Jason Riley: Thomas Sowell's Unique Insights on Race, Economics, and Politics
A new documentary and forthcoming biography pay tribute to the economist's intellectual fearlessness and commitment to empirical research.
Los Angeles Slashes Number of School Police Amid National Debate
The plan will shift $25 million away from school police and into support services for black students.
School Board Mocks Parents Who Support Reopening: 'They Want Their Babysitters Back'
In a hot mic moment, school officials were caught belittling parents.
The Dark Underbelly of Equity Based Thinking
Also: What we learned from impeachment.
Some Fairfax Students Go Back to School 2 Days a Week, Wear Masks, Sit 6 Feet Apart While Their Teachers Stay Home
Is this really what reopening looks like?
CDC's New 'Reopening' Guidance Will Keep Schools Closed in the Fall
This is what you get when you mix "science" with "stakeholders."
Did You Know That Two-Thirds of Families Prefer Full-Time, In-Person Schooling?
Probably not, if you read the newspaper. Parental preference is one of the most commonly misunderstood factors in the school-reopening debate.
Randi Weingarten Says D.C. Schools Should Close for Extra Cleaning If Anybody Catches COVID-19
A perfect example of hygiene theater
Berkeley Dorms Guarded by Cops Who Only Let Students Out To Eat, Use the Bathroom, or Get a COVID-19 Test
Plus: New Mexico moves to legalize homemade food, the illogic of civil commitments for sex offenders, and more...
Biden Airlifts the Goalposts on School Reopening: 1 Day a Week!
Administration wants to spend $200 billion hiring new teachers for closed schools that are bleeding students. What could go wrong?
Kansas Legislators Want To Expand School Choice Options for Kids Stuck With Virtual Learning
Why not give parents the money to send kids to a private school that is actually open?
Pandemic-Forced Homeschooling Is Winning Converts
Unplanned and maybe even unwanted, coronavirus-fueled experiences with DIY education impress more people than they turn off.
Tennessee Pharmacy School Nearly Expelled Student for Twitter Sex Talk
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is suing on her behalf.
San Francisco School Board President Says Critics of School Renaming Are Undermining Anti-Racist Work
"What I keep hearing is you're trying to undermine the work that has been done through this process."
Parents: Don't Be Boring, Relentless Teachers
No need to follow the stultifying advice from Parents magazine on how to "Supercharge Every Storytime."
Can the Secretary of Education Really Wave a Magic Wand and Erase All Our Student Loans?
This is probably not what Lyndon B. Johnson had in mind.
When Fairfax Schools Reopen, More Than 2,000 Teachers Will Still Teach From Home
The school district is hiring classroom assistants to watch the kids as they learn from their laptops.
"Censorship by Zoom and Other Private Platforms": The UC Academic Freedom Committee's Concerns
"The University’s responsibility to protect academic freedom and freedom of expression cannot be outsourced."
University Decisions About Funding Student Groups Can't Rely on "Unbridled Discretion"
An interesting ruling involving the University of Minnesota, by Judge Patrick Schiltz (himself a former professor).
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Says Teachers Must Go Back to School: 'Enough Is Enough'
"We are failing those children by not giving them the option to return to school."
