Teens in the United States are only average when it comes to financial literacy; crushed by Chinese teenagers’ remarkable performance on the Programme for International Student Assessment’s (PISA) first-ever financial literacy assessment. PISA typically surveys…
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Conservative Supreme Court Victories
The Heritage Foundation’s annual Scholar’s and Scribes event held on July 8th discussed the Supreme Court’s 2013 – 2014 term. The discussion about the cases focused around women’s health, the First Amendment, and racial discrimination….
Hillary Clinton’s Extravagant University Speaking Engagements
Clintonians, despite not being able to cheer Hillary Clinton on as secretary of state, should still find themselves mollified by the sheer number of public appearances Clinton has made recently. Likely due in part to…
Academic Epiphany on Accreditation
An academic sets out to expose “The Great Accreditation Farce” but his efforts border on the farcical. “By awarding accreditation to religious colleges, the process confers legitimacy on institutions that systematically undermine the most fundamental…
Conservative University’s “ObamaCare vs. Women” Class is Online TODAY! Check it Out!
Are women just focused on free contraceptives and birth control? Independent Women’s Forum Director of Health Policy, Hadley Heath Manning, says no; women care about accessible and affordable health care more than free birth control…
The Deportation Diaspora
Obama’s invitations, verbal and non-verbal, to immigrants to come to America illegally are inspiring thousands of people to take a shot at surpassing lax border security. The Center for Immigration Studies reported that by the…
How Healthcare.Gov Imploded
The Obama Administration continues to prioritize political success over people as evidenced in the rollout of the public face of Obamacare: Healthcare.gov. As of the end of February 2014, the Administration had spent $834 million…
Yesterday, Today and ?
Finding academics and intellectuals who are critical of the current White House has almost amounted to trying to find a needle in a haystack. Yet, for those who have been looking for such a mythical…
Heather Has Two Textbooks
While parents of public school children may feel besieged by alternative lifestyles, one public school teacher doesn’t think the literature available to them is diverse enough. “It takes a lot of work to find books…
U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A
It is good to remember, at least once a year, that Independence Day is more than an old movie with Will Smith. “The enemy fleet was nearing Philadelphia,” Bob Morrison, a senior fellow at the…
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Golden State’s Universities Have Reverse Midas Touch
Something called the College Futures Foundation thinks California’s state and other public universities need more money
Students Surprised By Loyola University Catholicism
Apparently, they didn’t read the fine print.
Good News On Climate Change
Some of the global warming alarmists are moving to France.
Bay State’s Common Core Blues
A new study from the Pioneer Institute in Boston shows that in Massachusetts, Common Core, like the world, is with us late and soon. Unfortunately, it’s got all the world’s drawbacks and none of its benefits.
Social Media Stains Nittany Lion Cubs
A pair of Penn State students are learning the hard way that social media makes it hard to grow up gracefully.
Climate Change Does Not =Wildfires
When academics do not jump on the bandwagon of favored academic theories, do not expect them to get much play in the media, or tenure at their universities, or, at least in previous administrations, grants from the federal government.
Best College Towns
They are not where you might think.
Warm Globe, Cool Oceans
They have been getting colder.
iGeneration @ Risk
Literally.
California Child Sues Private School Over Gender Assignment
There was a showstopping number in West Side Story called “I enjoy being a girl.” The heroine sang it: Those were the days.