Education
Mitch Daniels on How to Cut Government & Improve Services
The former Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University gets real about making the public sector cheaper - and better.
Mitch Daniels on How to Cut Government & Improve Services
The former Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University gets real about making the public sector cheaper - and better.
Classical Mythology Too Triggering for Columbia Students
Roman and Greek mythology "contains triggering and offensive material that marginalizes student identities in the classroom," students say.
This Teacher, Suffering from a Hoax Disease, Wants to Shut Off Wifi in Cali Schools
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity isn't a real thing
Ban Private Schools in the Name of the Collective Good?
Bans on private education have already been tried and rejected in the U.S.
Does Your College Really Need a Large, Foam, Third-Gender Mascot? Or Any Mascot at All?
Rutgers University is looking for more diverse mascots to represent its mediocre sports teams. Can you make the cut?
Oh, No—These Teachers Aren't Licensed! Wait, Are They Any Good?
Whether students are actually learning doesn't seem to factor in.
Tens of Thousands of New York Students Refuse Tests
Don't worry, they're "meaningless," says Governor Cuomo
Bus Driver to Eight-Year-Old: It's Too Dangerous to Read While You Ride
Reading? What do you think this is, some sort of school bus?
Bearing Witness to the Charter School Revolution
Reason Foundation's Lisa Snell and National School Choice Week President Andrew Campanella
Bill to Decriminalize Truancy Moves Forward in Texas
...while a similar bill in Colorado gets watered down.
Schools Treat Mild Misbehavior Like Capital Crime. It Has to Stop.
Won't someone please think of the children?
L.A. Schools Wasted Millions on a Failed iPad Initiative. Now They Want Their Money Back.
Not a lot of "learning" happening here.
What's Worse for This Teen's Health: Smoking an E-Cig, or Getting Tackled, Arrested, and Charged?
Watch the video and decide for yourself.
Student Who Pranked His Teacher Should Get Detention, Not Jail and a Felony
Miscreants, not criminals
Helpful Hackers vs. College Regulators
Why are state governments cracking down on innovative coding academies?
Fifth Grader Suspended for 'Illegal' Filming of Teacher Who Bullied Student
The war on cameras opens up a battlespace in the classroom.
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear First Amendment Case Challenging School Ban on American Flag Shirts
SCOTUS declines to review high-profile First Amendment dispute.
Boy Got a Haircut Like His Military Step-Brother, School Suspended Him
Why is it okay for public school officials to place totally unnecessary, soul-crushing restrictions on students?
'We Have a Lot of Demand From Families Trying to Get Away From Common Core'
The controversial standards represent an opportunity for private schools and homeschoolers
Trigger Warning: Jazz Hands
Students asked to refrain from anxiety-triggering clapping, use jazz hands instead
Here's What's Wrong With the Nation's "Investigation" of New York's Evil Charter School Plot and the Greedy Hedge Fund Moguls Who Fund It
A useful compendium of all the head-scratching arguments commonly voiced by school choice opponents.
The Democrats Have a New Warren/De Blasio, and He's Awful (UPDATED)
Rahm Emanuel challenger Chuy Garcia is setting progressive hearts aflutter, largely because his economic ideas are terrible
Pricing the Public Out of Public Records: $100 for a School-Board Meeting Record?
Ain't no sunshine in West Lafayette
Revisiting '90s Feminists on Campus Rape
#TBT: We've been having the same sexual-assault debate for more than 20 years.
Giving Kids 'Help' At the End of a Gun
Defenders of the status quo push back against a Colorado proposal to decriminalize truancy.
A Win for School Choice: Charters Are Coming to Alabama
The State Will Be the 44th to Allow Charters
Religion in the Public Sphere Makes a God-Awful Mess
Of theology, trigger warnings, and tolerance