The verdict is in: school shutdowns and virtual classes led to the worst decline in student test scores in reading and math in decades. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) studied the effect of…
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The verdict is in: school shutdowns and virtual classes led to the worst decline in student test scores in reading and math in decades. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) studied the effect of…
What is the Biden administration’s answer to a national teacher shortage? More competitive pay for teachers, not lowering the barriers to become a teacher. As Politico reported, Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said that…
Parental rights in education bills are making their way through the local and state levels because parents are rebelling against the entrenched left-wing education bureaucracy and teachers’ unions. In New Jersey, the parental rights movement…
Pamela Kadakia, an equity project manager in the California Department of Education, resigned from her position this past week because she is not a resident of the Golden State. Kadakia has been a Texas resident…
The obsessive loathing of Israel by large swathes of academia was evident last spring as Hamas showered southern Israeli town with some 4000 rockets and mortars. These woke, virtue-signaling moral narcissists, however, instead of denouncing…
The fallout at school boards have reverberated to the top of the education bureaucracy in Ohio, when two board members at the Ohio State Board of Education resigned over disagreements on an “anti-racism” resolution. Board…
The Ohio State Board of Education, located in the Buckeye State and swing state in the American Midwest, voted to repeal a resolution that parroted left-wing buzzwords and ideology such as “implicit bias.” The resolution,…
One of the rarely-discussed effects of the coronavirus pandemic was the looming teacher shortage, both full-time and substitute teachers, across multiple states in the country. Teachers have told the media and their administrators that the…
The Department of Justice, under the leadership of Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, backtracked in its strong language in defending Title IX’s religious exemption in a court filing. Last week, the department said it intended…
The end of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was met with cheers, jubilation, and celebration as racial injustice activists and other figures claimed it was a moment of vindication. Chauvin was…