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There’s a reason why nobody really noticed when major media outlets dropped their education beats: They weren’t doing much to begin with, other than recycling public school press releases. You can get a flavor of this by perusing the articles that the so-called mainstream media occasionally publish on education. For example, the Associated Press (AP), […]

Out with paint, watercolors and other traditional art mediums and styles. In with Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, and lots of it. For her master’s thesis, a student at CalArts poured hundreds of pounds of Cheetos (a snack food) into her art display to highlight the problems of getting affordable, fresh and healthy foods in southern California: […]

The American Faith and Culture Institute published the results of a survey comparing Millennials and the older demographic of Americans and they are eye-raising: The Worldview Measurement Project, conducted by the American Culture and Faith Institute, reveals that Millennials are, by far, the generation least likely to possess a biblical worldview. While 16% of those in the […]

Apparently, the only racists are white people, according to a language guide issued at the University of California-Davis: According to a glossary drafted by the school’s “LGBTQIA Resource Center,” racism is “the systematic subordination of marginalized racial groups who have relatively little social power in the United States, by members of the agent/dominant/privileged racial group who have […]

In a recent policy analysis by the libertarian think tank Cato Institute, Peter Kaznacheev claimed that the oft-used academic theory of a “resource curse” is erroneous and mistaken. Kaznacheev is the director at the Centre for Resource Economics at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and wrote the policy analysis for Cato. […]

The ongoing saga at UCLA continues, where conservative professor Keith Fink saw his free speech course have its enrollment capped at a lower number than before (down to 180 from 200 students) and limits on how many students he can enroll by special permission.

Common Core State Standards, a top-to-bottom federal government education curriculum, is a relative unknown among academics, college faculty and professors in higher education. A joint survey, headed by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), discovered that the majority of their respondents had mixed responses to Common Core’s design and implementation. The survey had forty-nine respondents from […]

Well, the best and the brightest on the Left are amassing their forces for a full-scale frontal assault on President Trump’s first Supreme Court nomination. The problem for them is, they don’t have much ammunition. Former President Obama’s favorite think tank, the Center for American Progress (CAP), almost tried to do it algebraicly in their […]

Several university presidents have said that they won’t sign an “intellectual freedom commitment” proposed by the president of the National Association of Scholars, Peter Wood: In November 2015, as racial protests engulfed the University of Missouri and students issued demands nationwide, Peter Wood thought the rocky campus landscape was ripe for higher education leaders to […]

On “Fox & Friends,” President Donald Trump declared, in regard to the protests against him, “I think that President Obama’s behind it because his people are certainly behind it.” Once again, Trump has struck gold. It’s “gold” in the form of taxpayer money. In addition to funding from billionaire hedge fund operator George Soros, we […]

From Inside Higher Ed: With broad adoption of rented textbooks and the steady but incremental shift from print to digital, the price of instructional materials is inching down — far too slowly for those worried about students’ costs, but enough to have significantly hurt the bottom line of most campus bookstores. And the continuation of […]

From the Bradley Foundation’s press release: Milwaukee, WI – Walter E. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, is one of four recipients of the 2017 Bradley Prize. The honor recognizes individuals of extraordinary talent and dedication who have made contributions in areas consistent with the mission of The Lynde and Harry Bradley […]