Students aren’t the only ones who get suspended from Washington’s Bremerton High School. Based on yesterday’s decision, so do coaches. That’s the latest in the outrageous case of Joe Kennedy, the devout Christian at the…
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The Wesleyan Controversy and a Double Standard for Campus Free Speech
In what is yet more evidence that universities have become, at least where campus free speech is concerned, “islands of repression in a sea of freedom,” as Chester E. Finn Jr., a former Assistant Secretary…
Trick or Treat: Schools Hoard Endowment Money
Most colleges and universities are quick to push for expanded student aid from taxpayers but forget that age-old maxim: charity begins at home. “Last year, Yale paid about $480 million to private equity fund managers…
Intentional Grounding of Coach’s Rights
Joe Kennedy is a veteran of two wars — but now he’s fighting a new enemy: political correctness. The Bremerton football coach didn’t spend 20 years defending freedom only to have his stolen, but that’s…
Health Care Rationing, from a Professor’s Perspective
It’s really dangerous, for patients anyway, when policy wonks decide what type of health care is necessary. “In popular understanding, rising health-care spending is often viewed as an inevitable consequence of advances in medical technology,…
Reading Racial Tea Leaves at University of Maryland
In this era of racial unrest, academic efforts to achieve understanding are welcome. Unfortunately, opportunities to misinterpret abound in academe. “Younger generations have made great strides,” Liam Farrell of the University of Maryland writes in…
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Universities Searching for Hoaxes
Universities have come a long way from the days of yore when they proclaimed that part of their mission was the search of truth. At the Heritage Foundation recently, Brooklyn College history professor KC Johnson…
Where Microaggressions Come From
If, like some of us of a certain age, you wondered where the exotic term “microaggressions” comes from, the answer is that, like many maladies that bedevil us, it started in the 1970s, and in…
Cancer in the Curia
The original piece was published by FGF Books on their website. FRONT ROYAL, VA — So Pope Francis met with Kim Davis* and her husband — both cradle Catholics, by the way — and the…
American Academia’s War on Due Process
We are still, for the most part, a nation of laws, except on college campuses. At the Heritage Foundation recently, Samantha Harris, director of policy research at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE),…
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Community Colleges Tilt At Windmills
Some Texas high schools and community colleges are banking on green jobs training to get their graduates gainfully employed.
Are North Carolina Speech Therapists Overcredentialed?
That’s what one tar heel state native seems to allege.
Liberty University Quelled Free Speech? President may have Killed Article for Story on Left-Wing Protest
Liberty University’s president may have killed a story by college journalists over covering a quote of his in an article about left-wing evangelicals protesting at the university.
Group tells Maryland School System to Include Racism as a Mental Health Disorder
A group of black Americans, called the Caucus of African American Leaders, demanded that a Maryland county school system should include racism as a mental health disorder.
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Heather Mac Donald Faults Study On School Discipline
Most media outlets reported on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) study on disparities in school discipline without much follow up, but Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald took a closer look at federal school and crime data and found the GAO study misleading, to say the least.
Radical Students Play White Supremacist Card
As if their very existence were not endangered enough, campus radicals who dominate universities can’t seem to find any conservative professors who are not white supremacists, whether they are or not.
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Where Media Bias Tilts On Education Reform
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) proves that media bias leans towards Democratic Party education reforms rather than Republican ones and they’ve proved it scientifically, or at least social scientifically.
Zero Tolerance on Campus For Black Conservatives
Just ask Burgess Owens.
Discrimination Data You Haven’t Seen
And might never have but for two independent-minded economists–Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell
Mansfield’s Manliness Dissed At Beloit
Harvard scholar Harvey Mansfield, the author of Manliness, is the latest right-of-center speaker to get shouted at, if not down, when giving a campus lecture.