Education
Universal Student Debt Forgiveness Is Regressive, Say Economists
Plus: Uber abandons self-driving autos, on being "both loud and silenced," and more...
School Board Won't Reverse Fourth-Grader's Suspension for BB Gun Incident During Virtual School
Ka’Mauri Harrison is accused of bringing a BB gun to school. But he never left his house.
What the Weirdest Game of This College Football Season Can Tell Us About COVID-19
Coastal Carolina University beat BYU on a last-second play Saturday. Four days earlier, neither team expected to be playing the other.
"Faculty Are Free to … Disagree with Any Policy … of the University … Without Being Subject to Discipline"
Words to live by from the President of the University of Chicago, in response to demands to punish a professor who spoke out against various "diversity, equity and inclusion" programs.
Chicago Teachers Union: 'The Push To Reopen Schools Is Rooted in Sexism, Racism, and Misogyny'
No one has fought harder to keep kids out of the classroom than teachers unions.
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Forgiving Student Debt Wouldn't Be a Major Economic Stimulus
Despite Elizabeth Warren's contention that it is the "single most effective economic stimulus that is available through executive action," forgiving student debt is a bad idea.
Lockdowns and Leviathan
How pandemics joined war, terrorism, crime, and economic depression in the toolbox for ratcheting up government
Anthony Fauci: 'Close the Bars and Keep the Schools Open'
"If you look at the data, the spread among children and from children is not very big at all."
To Help Kids Find Their Passion, Give Them Free Time
Kids need more space to explore weird pastimes and obsessions.
Penguin Random House Employees Broke Down in Tears at Thought of Publishing Jordan Peterson's Next Book
"He is an icon of hate speech and transphobia."
UMD Public Policy School Mandating Ideological Statements on Syllabus, Requiring That Class "Materials" and "Discussions" "Respect All Forms of Diversity"
Seems quite inconsistent with basic academic freedom principles.
"Journalism Professors Demand Iowa State University Disband the College Republicans Over Offensive Tweet"
The University rightly responds: "At the core of this demand is a disconnect between the law and First Amendment freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution, and the desire by many in the campus community to punish those whose comments are hurtful to others."
Journalism Professors Demand Iowa State University Disband the College Republicans Over Offensive Tweet
ISU initially criticized the tweet, but later affirmed the group's free speech rights and declined to punish them.
Listen to the Science, Listen to the Students: Schools Can and Must Reopen
"Keeping kids out of the classroom will make recovering from the pandemic harder in the long term."
Senate Democrats Want Biden To Unilaterally Forgive Billions of Dollars in Student Loans
Legally, he might be able to do it. Fiscally, he shouldn’t.
School District Decides Asians Aren't Students of Color
The absurdities that result from overreliance on semi-arbitrary race-based categories
New York, Shamefully, on the Verge of Shuttering Public Schools
Just 0.18 percent of randomly tested teachers and students have been positive for COVID-19. So why the hell would you close the schools?
How Elite Colleges Rip Off Taxpayers
Yale University gets government handouts while paying little in property taxes.
Public School Forces Kids To Take the Bus Home. Walking Is Faster.
A mother of three children—ages 9, 10, and 11—just can't convince the principal to let them walk home.
Bureaucrats Declare War on Learning Pods. They'll Lose.
Flexible education crafted to meet family needs is destined to prevail over failing government schools.
Hey, Teacher! Don't Leave Those Kids at Home
Schools don’t seem to spread the coronavirus much at all.
COVID-19 Didn't Break the Public School System. It Was Already Broken.
Families are leaving traditional schools in record numbers for pods, homeschooling, charters, and more.
D.C. Schools Suddenly Abandon Plans To Reopen After Teachers Union Objects
"This timeline will need to be adjusted."
How To Tell If You're Being Canceled
Kindly Inquisitors author Jonathan Rauch on the never-ending battle to defend free speech
Survey: Parents Are Vastly More Satisfied With In-Person Education Than Distance Learning
Low-income kids were most likely to get online-only instruction, according to Pew.
Fifth Circuit Speaks Out Against Campus Speech Codes (in University of Texas Case)
Speech First, a pro-campus-free-speech advocacy group, can go on with its challenge to UT-Austin's speech codes—and the panel strongly suggests those codes (backed by anonymous reporting to the Campus Climate Response Team) are unconstitutional.
What Will President Biden Do to Us?
The Reason Roundtable war-games the domestic policies of the likeliest next administration.
'This Building Has Caused More Problems Than It Solved'
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on schooling during COVID-19, the future of higher ed, and why her cabinet department probably shouldn't exist at all
School Threatens 12-Year-Old With Arrest for Allegedly Missing 90 Minutes of Zoom Class
"Who in their right mind could do that?"
School District Bans All "Political Speech" on Student T-Shirts
Pretty clearly unconstitutional, it seems to me, whether applied to pro-Trump T-shirts (as in a recently-filed lawsuit) or to other such material.
Joe Biden Has No Realistic Plan To Reopen Schools
Trump didn't offer much in terms of concrete solutions either.
Fairfax Teachers Union Wants Schools Closed Until August 2021
"No one should return to in person instruction until there is a widely available scientifically proven vaccine or highly effective treatment."
'Where Would the Black Lives Matter Movement Be Without the Right to Free Speech?'
Ira Glasser, former head of the ACLU, is worried that his former group is embracing identity politics over free speech.
San Diego Public Schools Will Overhaul Its Grading System To Achieve 'Anti-Racism'
"If we’re actually going to be an anti-racist school district, we have to confront practices like this that have gone on for years and years."
San Francisco Won't Reopen Schools. But It Will Rename Them.
"To hear that the District is focusing energy and resources on renaming schools is offensive," says Mayor London Breed.
North Carolina Mother Sues School Resource Officer Who Handcuffed and Pinned Her 7-Year-Old Autistic Son
Just the latest in a string of incidents involving school police and children with disabilities
Ira Glasser: Would Today's ACLU Defend the Speech Rights of Nazis?
The subject of the new film Mighty Ira explains why social justice warriors are wrong to attack free speech.
A Group of Scientists Wants To Reopen Society. Here's What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About What They Said.
The Great Barrington Declaration asks how much collateral damage is too much.
How COVID-19 Is Spreading School Choice
The growing movement to fund students rather than government monopolies
Promoting On-Campus Discourse: Recommendations
Here are some ways to build a campus culture more open to free inquiry and discourse.
