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.
The Reason Roundtable war-games the domestic policies of the likeliest next administration.
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
"Who in their right mind could do that?"
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.
Trump didn't offer much in terms of concrete solutions either.
"No one should return to in person instruction until there is a widely available scientifically proven vaccine or highly effective treatment."
Ira Glasser, former head of the ACLU, is worried that his former group is embracing identity politics over free speech.
"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."
"To hear that the District is focusing energy and resources on renaming schools is offensive," says Mayor London Breed.
Just the latest in a string of incidents involving school police and children with disabilities
The subject of the new film Mighty Ira explains why social justice warriors are wrong to attack free speech.
The Great Barrington Declaration asks how much collateral damage is too much.
The growing movement to fund students rather than government monopolies
Here are some ways to build a campus culture more open to free inquiry and discourse.
Improving diversity is a worthy endeavor. But compelled “diversity statements” are a form of social engineering that, ironically, can be exclusionary.
Alexandria City Public Schools is still in virtual mode, and top education official Gregory Hutchings has enrolled his child elsewhere.
Lockdowns are forcing students, parents, educators, and even taxpayers to look for all sorts of alternatives to the status quo.
Most things faculty publish don’t lead to a backlash. But that doesn’t mean that there’s not an academic freedom problem.
These beliefs shouldn’t be considered the only legitimate way to see the world.
There are 1.2 million foreign students in the United States, and ICE keeps leaving them in the lurch, threatening to kick them out (and then rescinding that guidance).
The dynamics of the information ecosystem have impacted research and teaching.
Profs. Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor are guest-blogging this week about their new book.
The opinion, which suggests a strong concern about due process, will nevertheless be cited as evidence of the SCOTUS nominee's "uniformly conservative" record.
"The university's Office for Equity, Equal Opportunity and Title IX (EEO-TIX) ... concluded that ... Professor Patton's actions did not violate the university's policy."
"They’re applying on-campus rules to these children, even though they’re learning virtually in their own homes."
Playing outside is one of the safest group activities kids can do, yet Gavin Newsom and other pols are extending the pandemic misery indefinitely.
In communities where young kids returned to classes, it's mostly good news.
The University of Illinois' Jon Hale and Reason Foundation education analyst Corey DeAngelis go toe to toe
"Scathing comments" from an anonymous faculty survey (reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education), plus an article in the Atlantic. You can't buy publicity like that, as they say, or faculty morale like that.
The students are at Florida International University, "Miami's first and only public research university."
As K–12 education goes remote, groups of parents are hiring teachers to teach their kids in person. Is that wrong?
A November ballot initiative would pit minority communities against each other.
Plus: Child mortality has dropped sharply, progressives have retro ideas about sex, farmers get $14 billion, and more...
He also refused to apologize.
An open letter from the university's President acknowledging pervasive racism at the school prompts an inquiry
Universities are punishing kids for partying—after cashing their tuition checks, of course.
"David and Andrea Peterson didn't even participate in the rally—they just watched it. The students don't care."
Global reactions, plus a question [UPDATE: which has been answered, see below]. (This post, put up yesterday afternoon, was bumped so people can see the UPDATE.)
David and Andrea Peterson didn't even participate in the rally—they just watched it. The students don't care.
a response to an important and thoughtful argument by Jacob Levy
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