A Staten Island public school has scrapped its annual father-daughter dance so as not to run afoul of Governor Cuomo’s Department of Education.
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Feds Defund WGU
After an audit, the U. S. Department of Education’s inspector general has deemed Western Governors University unworthy of federal student aid.
DeVos Makes Title IX Legal Again
In a “Dear Colleague” letter to university administrators, the U. S. Department of Education reversed the Obama Administration’s guidance urging school officials to go above and beyond, some would say outside, the law while investigating charges of sexual harassment under Title IX laws.
Betsy DeVos Booed at HBCU Commencement Address at Bethune-Cookman; Crowd Admonished by College President
Trump’s Department of Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, was booed by graduating students and they turned their backs to her as she delivered her commencement address at Bethune-Cookman University.
Asian-American Group Files Discrimination Complaint against Ivy League Schools
From the College Fix: “A group called the Asian American Coalition for Education plans to file an official complaint tomorrow with the federal Department of Education and Department of Justice noting that Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth have “unlawfully discriminated” against Asian-Americans in their admissions policies.”
AIA Endorses FIRE Letter
New regulations from the U. S. Department of Education (DOE) are threatening to cripple the First Amendment on American college campuses. Accuracy in Academia has signed onto a letter that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is sending to the agency.
Student Loan Cliffhanger
Maybe the U. S. Department of Education should start listening to some of the free advice it gets.
Stagnation Analysis
Drawing on data from the U. S. Department of Education, Matthew Ladner of The Friedman Foundation found that reading scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) went from 285 in 1971 to 286 in 2008.
Obama’s Federal School Curriculum
Three years after the Department of Education announced a contest called Race-to-the-Top for $4.35 billion in stimulus funds, some parents, teachers, governors, and citizen and public policy groups are coming to an awful realization about the likely outcomes.
An Extracurricular Crucible
The Department of Education thinks it has found out what is wrong with American higher education—not enough extracurricular activities, specifically, not enough political ones.