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In 1978, the significant Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case brought the term “diversity” into the lexicon of higher education. Although the Court found that the medical school at the University of California at Davis had used an unconstitutional quota system in denying Alan Bakke admission, Justice Lewis Powell made his now-famous observation that, notwithstanding the inherent […]

Chicago Public Schools, during Thanksgiving weekend, announced its new policy to create gender-neutral restrooms for its students. The district used Twitter, a social media platform, to make the decision. It is unclear whether parents were included in the decision-making or whether they were informed of the decision. The district’s video and text announcement called the […]

A Maryland public high school permitted a video that disparaged Pilgrims as oppressors, which was produced by a left-wing website called NowThis. The Daily Signal reported that Walt Whitman High School, located in the wealthy suburb of Bethesda, did not respond to inquiries about the video and the circumstances to allow it to be viewed […]

The Beehive State, Utah, has been a conservative bastion for many years. But, due to an influx of West Coast tech and start-up workers, it is less certain that the state will stick to its long conservative history. One indication of this political tilt is that the state’s Board of Education approved resource slides to […]

As if further evidence were needed for the hypocrisy about who may say what about whom on college campuses, the recent action by the Duke Student Government to withhold recognition to a new pro-Israel student group seems to confirm that academic free speech is not always free depending on who is speaking. On November 9th, […]

It sounds as if a county commission has gone rogue in the D.C. metropolitan area. In Prince William County, located about 30 miles southwest of the nation’s capital, three county commissioners of the Racial and Social Justice Commission held a town hall about Critical Race Theory and “culturally-responsive teaching,” reported Inside Nova. Commissioners Charles Haddow, […]

Why the Left seems to think it’s perfectly acceptable for Jews to die in the name of Palestinian self-determination. Even for Congressional Democrats who, in recent years, have shown a growing animosity and even cruelty toward Israel, last week’s effort to remove $1 billion of funding to maintain Israel’s Iron Dome defense system was particularly […]

Historical slogans are now a victim of rampant college and social media-driven “cancel culture.” The phrase “Come and take it” is now considered racist and divisive and the University of Texas-San Antonio is retiring it and accompanying imagery from its football games. In its announcement, University President Taylor Eighmy wrote that the slogan and flag […]

In 2017, a controversy embroiled Bret Weinstein, a self-described liberal, white professor at Evergreen State College, who was vilified by students when he refused to stay off campus on the School’s Day of Absence, an annual event during which Evergreen’s white students and faculty are urged not to come to campus. “On a college campus,” […]

The coronavirus pandemic will not stop LGBTQIA+ activism in public education, at least in the liberal Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) system. The county, which is located north of the nation’s capital of Washington, D.C., moved forward with plans to have a social studies pilot program on LGBTQIA+ history. MCPS described the curriculum as an […]

Videos of Afghans climbing walls and standing on active airport runways in the capital city of Kabul have fueled the ongoing debate about the Biden administration’s rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan. There have been unconfirmed reports of several Afghans dying amid the chaos, women and children beaten in the streets by Taliban fighters, beheading of Afghan […]

Virginia school boards are pushing back against the Virginia Department of Education regarding transgenderism in schools, setting the stage for an intense standoff between local and state officials. Last year, Virginia’s DOE adopted the controversial “Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools” as part of its effort to […]