At least one form of very productive education disruption is growing exponentially. “Parents can choose public schools for their children in 55 percent of the nation’s largest school districts, more than double the percent…
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New Oberlin Alumni Group Condemns Anti-Semitism
Editor’s Note: The original post was published by the Louis. B Brandeis Center. On January 3, 2016, the newly formed group, “Oberlin Alumni Against Anti-Semitism” denounced a recent trend of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel acts on…
Common Core of Profit
Editor’s Note: The original post was published by the Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research. James O’Keefe’s undercover videos reveal what activists have been saying for years: Common Core is a set of standards written…
Financial Scandals Follow Socialist Millionaire Sanders
Editor’s Note: Maybe some of Bernie Sanders youngest supporters should know how close to the one percent he gets. Responding to one of Anderson Cooper’s softball questions, socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told the CNN Town…
Fyodor We Hardly Knew Ya
The Modern Language Association (MLA) gave new meaning to the term “in-depth study” at the annual MLA convention in Austin, Texas in January. “What Crime and Punishment is really about is aberrant male sexuality and…
Getting to Know Goethe
Occasionally you can actually learn about classic authors at the Modern Language Association (MLA). Attended by thousands of English professors from around the world, too often the MLA emphasizes the “Modern” part of their acronym…
American Colleges Ignore Violence Against Jewish Students in Israel and the U.S.
Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in The Observer and appears courtesy of the author and the Louis D. Brandeis Center. When New Jersey lawyer Stephen Flatow sent an email to some history professors earlier…
We Covered Ted Cruz Back in 2010: Cruz on Obama’s Harvard Background
Editor’s Note: The original article can be read here, but it is re-posted below: The last Republican president and his Democratic successor both graduated from schools within Harvard University and that should probably be a…
Aging at the MLA
One way in which the world’s largest conclave of English professors—the Modern Language Association (MLA)—lives up to its name is to leave attendees at its annual conferences with a new vocabulary that they cannot shake….
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Book Review: Who Built That? Not Obama
Michelle Malkin’s book, Who Built That, tells the story of America’s unsung and unheralded entrepreneurs who made America what it is today: a land of the American Dream, free market and freedom. She told the…
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Fake Diplomas
It is perhaps appropriate, although distressingly so, that in our increasingly ersatz society, education is in the vanguard.
Commencement Updates
One not too surprising addition and one rather astounding subtraction.
Why Public School Students Won’t Read
It has a lot to do with public school reading material, the founder of the appropriately named Success Academy points out.
UConn To Train Community Organizers
Actually social justice activists but it leads in the same direction.
NC Teachers To Take Walk
The May 16, 2018 walkout is being organized by the North Carolina Association of Educators.
No Open Mic For SUNY-Oswego Conservatives
Perhaps it stands to reason that if campus conservatives have no freedom of speech, they are not free to complain about it either, at least on campus before they actually go to court with a first amendment case.
Desegregation Comes To Claremont
Actually, progressives gave it segregation, then had to take it back.
Texas Tech Teaches Transgender
The late beloved conservative author M. Stanton Evans repeatedly said, “liberals don’t care what you do as long as it’s compulsory.”
Cornell Student Strips To Give Feminist Thesis
Yes, you read that right.
GOP Congress Bankrolls Questionable Education Department
Perhaps the risk of being called heartless is making them headless.