High School Shames Student for Writing Politically Incorrect Essay It Knew Was Satire
Jonathan Swift "A Modest Proposal" assignment goes awry because everything is offensive.
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Student Petition Asks Congress to Defund the Title IX Inquisition
OCR's budget should be reduced to zero.
School Cop Who Body-Slammed 12-Year-Old Girl into Concrete Fired Over Paperwork
Joshua Kehm failed to submit incident report, and when he did, he called it an "accidental fall."
Forget Anti-Zionism. Is 'Alcoholocaust' Anti-Semitic?
A variation on beer pong, it pits Jews against Nazis, each with their own symbolic cup formation.
School Cop Slams 12-Year-Old Texas Girl Onto Concrete Walkway
You can trace today's police-on-student violence to post-Columbine overreactions.
Liberia Turns to Private Sector for Primary Education
Government covers the associated student fees.
Policing Students' Sex Lives Costs Colleges Millions, But Nobody's Happy With Results
When stopping sex discrimination requires more sex discrimination, how can anyone win?
North Carolina Poised to Legislatively Undo Charlotte's LGBT Discrimination Protections (UPDATE: Passes in Senate)
Bathroom panic strikes again.
12-Year-Old Girl Arrested for Pinching Boy's Butt, Sent to Juvenile Detention
"I regret it because I didn't know it would lead to this."
The Charter School King
The school choice significance of Obama's new education secretary.
The Darker Side of 'Just Say No'
Nancy Reagan demanded that everyone-not just schoolchildren-parrot her all-or-nothing, black-and-white approach to drugs.
Just Say No to Nancy Reagan's 'Outspoken Intolerance'
The former first lady, who died this week, was wedded to repressive drug policies that hurt many innocent people.
The Next Democratic President Will Be Terrible on Education Policy
Flint debate reveals a party mired in retrograde '70s-era trade-union liberalism
Has DARE Gone Soft on Marijuana?
Contrary to wishful rumors, the anti-drug stalwart's position on pot has not changed.
No, DARE Has Not Gone Soft on Pot
Contrary to wishful rumors, the anti-drug stalwart still considers marijuana a menace.
South Dakota Governor Rejects Transgender Bathroom Panic—With a Conservative Argument
Bill would have forbidden students from using facilities of opposite sex.
Teacher Could Face Charges for 'Contributing to Delinquency of Minor' Who Stole Her Phone and Distributed Nude Photos From It
School administrators say she should have password-protected the phone.
Students, Teachers at Calif. School Think an Anti-Gay Sticker Can Bully People
Your rights end where their feelings begin.
Hillary Clinton Wants Benevolent Bureaucrats to Bring More 'Structure' to Poor Kids' Lives
The candidate calls for longer school days and school years.
Spike Lee Endorses Bernie Sanders
The Brooklyn director is feeling the Bern, but neither Sanders nor Clinton is worth a damn on education policy.
How to Fix 'One of the Most Segregated Public School Systems In the Nation'
"If you force parents to value [diversity] then they won't."
If You Don't Approve of Success Academy, Don't Send Your Kids There
The latest controversy at Success is a reminder of why we need more school choice.
Students Won't Go To Jail for Fishing Knives, But Zero Tolerance Still Threatens Teen Boys
Sanity prevails for two Escondido high schoolers.
Zero Tolerance: 2 Teens Face Expulsion, Jail for Fishing Knives, Advil in Their Cars
Charges could prevent one teen from joining the Marines, and the other teen from attending college.
New Lawsuit Attempts to Fix Broken Indiana Property Forfeiture Rules
The schools are supposed to get the funds when police seize assets, but that's not happening.
School Zero Tolerance Policy Costs Vermont Taxpayers $83,750
A mother was banned from her child's school based on one frustrated comment.
Free-Market Education Radical Andrew J. Coulson, RIP
Author and Cato scholar wrote path-breaking book Market Education: The Unknown History.
Black Lives Matter Activist Deray Mckesson Running for Baltimore Mayor
Says government has to identify its problems and solve them.
Male Teen Takes Nude Photo of Himself, Charged with Making Child Porn
The kid, 15, could be placed on the sex offender registry.
Brown University Renames Columbus Day "Indigenous People's Day"
When will people stop taking the Ivy League so super-cereal?
Er, Not Exactly: "What passes for acceptable school choice rhetoric is frightening"
The latest misguided attack on charters and school choice is heavy on invective and light on facts.
Should a Gov't Scholarship Program Exclude Religious Schools?
This mom is fighting to send her daughters to the school of her choice.
Reason's Nick Gillespie & Lisa Snell Call Bullsh*t on Public Education Abuses
Plastic surgery for teachers, crumbling school buildings, drug tests for choir girls, Pop-Tart guns...
Conversion Therapy Is Bad, but Banning It Is a Form of Unacceptable Censorship
We don't need lawmakers deciding what therapies should be supported or legal.
Nebraska's Schools Are Failing Poor Kids. Will the State Give Them a Way Out?
The new fight to bring school choice to the Cornhusker state.
Montana Families Are Fighting for School Choice
Should a program that provides scholarships to private-schools exclude religious institutions?
People For The American Way Teacher Unions
Liberal group trashes National School Choice Week for "robbing our public education system of urgently needed funds."
Brownstone Brooklyn's Racial Divide: Why Are the Schools So Segregated?
How residential assignment keeps kids who are black and white-rich and poor-apart.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Praises Charter Schools For Minorities
Calls them a bulwark against "soft expectations" from traditional education system that has failed blacks.
When Martin Luther King, Jr. Just Isn't Inclusive Enough: U of Oregon Debates Pulling Quote
"Diversity is so much more than race...there are people who identify differently in gender and all sorts of things like that," says one student.
