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Although the recent “Emerging Issues” conference at North Carolina State University missed the boat on the big issues, there were a few bright spots that education leaders ought to know about.

On February 12th, the state of Utah cemented its place in the annals of history when Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. signed the first-ever universal school choice bill into law.

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate last Wednesday that would require high schools to report the number of male and female students participating in high school athletics and the money spent on each team.

Maybe one of the reasons our fortieth president gets such short shrift in textbooks is because he had the academic left’s number, as we used to say.

Did MIT let a distinguished black scientist go because of his opposition to embryonic stem cell research?

In New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina we can see what it takes to dislodge an entrenched educational bureaucracy and its companion teachers union from power—a natural disaster.

The state government of California fails the foster children it assumes responsibility for by, among other things, forcing them through California’s public schools.

In the past eight days, legislative bodies in three states have passed choice legislation.

Despite having text books readily available, only 24 percent of fourth graders and 23 percent of eighth graders in Arizona scored proficient on the highly respected NAEP reading exam. One wonders whether the return on laptop investments will be any better.

In the last five years, the university has played host to more than 21 prominent guest speakers, including such illustrious figures as Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, Mary Robinson, Gloria Steinem, Danny Glover, Angela Davis, Ralph Nader, and others.

The
University of California Los Angeles rescinded an invitation issued to
Carl Braun, California State Director for The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, to
a debate scheduled for this evening with Dr. Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand
Institute regarding border security.

Poor and
minority children are over-identified for special education, especially
the emotional behavioral disorders and mental retardation.