Education
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The Washington Post's Vendetta Against School Choice
According to the legacy newspaper, school choice is not only racist but also ruining public schools. As usual, the antagonists have it completely backward.
Most Students Lie to Their Marxist Professors
Colleges have replaced diversity of thought with superficial diversity of skin color or sex. They expect conformity, but the majority of students are just playing along.
Diplomaed and Non-Diplomaed Workers Now Equally Unemployed
A college degree costs a heck of a lot more than it used to, but it's not worth as much in terms of landing a good-paying job after the years of hard work to earn it.
The AFT Joins Forces With the WEF
The second-largest teachers union has announced that it's teaming up with the World Economic Forum to create a curriculum for American school comrades children.
Columbia University Settles With the Feds
The Ivy League is paying a hefty fine and promising to address the violent and anti-Semitic behavior of its student protestors — something it should have done from the get-go.
Reinstating School Discipline
After years of failed therapy sessions, "restorative practices," and having to tread carefully around members of minorities, certain states are going back to the old-fashioned custom of punishing misbehaving students.
This Year's Encounters With the Left at an Elite University
Headlines can exaggerate dysfunction, painting an overly bleak picture of higher education. This year, I have accumulated several stories that offer a more nuanced view.
Good Intentions Don't Justify Dubious Freeze on Education Funding
The president should follow the law by not withholding congressionally approved funding. At the same time, DOE funds aren't going straight to classrooms, despite what Democrats claim.
Bad Therapy Begins With Bad Instruction at Universities
One brave grad student exposes a Jesuit university's "Human Sexuality" course and how she was trained to be an expert "critical theorist," not a therapist.
Foreign Students Are Big Business
Many colleges and universities make a ton of money from wealthy foreign students who pay full freight. As with so many things, there are pros and cons to this arrangement.
Teaching Phonics Is Still Important, as California Newly Rediscovers
Amid plummeting reading scores, California — which didn't follow the science — makes a switch back to a tried-and-true method of teaching entry-level students.
Novel Idea: Teaching Civics in College
Is it too late to turn the tide of indoctrination that has students engaged in activism against America? Can we regain the wind in the sails of American civics?
Harvard Is the Enemy
The bill of indictment against Harvard is long. It is teaching students to hate America, to become modern-day Benedict Arnolds.
We Have No Constitutional or Moral Duty to Subsidize Harvard
We should feel no patriotic imperative to fund speech we dislike, which is very different from the imperative of protecting speech we dislike.
Trump Is Taking Harvard to Task
The storied Ivy League university, which has broken and continues to break the law, is now paying the piper and experiencing a taste of long-overdue justice.
Trump to Revoke Chinese Student Visas
The ChiComs have long used our colleges and universities as a vehicle for stealing our intellectual property and our technological expertise, but those days might well be numbered.
Trump, Harvard, and the Brain-Drain Myth
The outlook of The Economist is dangerous to America: it encourages lowered expectations of Americans themselves, with more disciplined if not more talented immigrants picking up the slack.
On Education, Mississippi Shows the Way
Those interested in improving the life chances of disadvantaged children need to look to mostly Republican-run states in the South.
Wokeism Is Stifling Thought in America's Universities
Unless drastic action is taken, our universities will cease to serve us and our democracy.
The Real Cost of Student Loan Forgiveness
America must resist the urge to apply a temporary bandage to a festering wound.