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The February cable news ratings show that Fox News’ brand of conservative-oriented news is widely preferred by viewers over the liberal offerings of MSNBC and CNN. After a third-place showing in January 2021, when MSNBC and CNN hyped 2020 election denialism and the January 6th riots on Capitol Hill, Fox News quickly regained its form […]

The Center for Politics at the University of Virginia (UVA) announced last week that former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has accepted an appointment to serve as a Professor of Practice with the Center for Politics. The appointment will run through the 2023 fall semester with an option to renew after that. “I am delighted to […]

Perhaps when literary critic C.S. Lewis despaired of “omnipotent moral busybodies . . . who torment us for our own good,” he was anticipating the tendentious rants of members of the University of Chicago’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a toxic campus group of anti-Israel activists who have helped lead a campaign of libel […]

The Indiana state legislature is considering a bill that would prohibit classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity. WDRB reported that House Bill 1608 passed out of the state’s House Education Committee by a 9-4 vote, along party lines. The local news outlet noted the bill’s original version prevented teachers from teaching these divisive […]

Higher education is in dire need of reform, at least in the eyes of conservatives. Two conservative scholars penned a joint opinion editorial that outlined potential proposals for state lawmakers. Manhattan Institute scholars Ilya Shapiro and Christopher Rufo penned a piece in the Wall Street Journal, which could significantly change the college and university landscape. […]

The annual federal holiday known as President’s Day is a time to honor the birthday of George Washington, the U.S.’s first president and a key Founding Father. But these days, honoring past presidents and key figures in American history is not widely accepted in pop culture, media, academia, and Hollywood. Unfortunately, revisionist history and criticism […]

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, has made school choice a centerpiece of her administration and garnered high praise from a leading center-right news outlet. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board praised the two-term governor for pushing for school choice policies in her second term, specifically the emphasis on education savings accounts (known as ESA’s). […]

Unsurprisingly for an organization whose membership has been perennially hostile to Israel, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) just awarded the 2022 Jere L. Bacharach Service Award to San Francisco State University (SFSU) Professor Rabab Abdulhadi. Though it positions itself as an organization of scholars engaged in research and teaching about the Middle East, MESA […]

In response to a governor’s directive, the University of Texas-Austin officially blocked access to the popular social media app TikTok on its campus wired and wireless internet networks. The Texas Tribune reported the news of the TikTok ban. The app is owned by ByteDance, which has strong ties to the Chinese Communist Party, has not […]

The top deputy to Biden’s education secretary was accused of violating an ethics pledge of the Biden administration after openly coordinating efforts between a former employer and the Department of Education. Donna Harris-Aikens, who is Secretary Miguel Cardona’s deputy chief of staff, apparently violated the Biden Ethics Pledge which prevented Biden appointees from engaging in […]

The state of Florida rejected The College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) course on African-American studies over allegations of “woke” material. Gov. Ron DeSantis said that the state education agency rejected the course because it pushed a political agenda, which claim the course’s authors rejected. The Associated Press reported the news, which came about a week […]

Due to the lengthy vote-counting after Election Day, the school board election results are finalized and confirmed: A red wave impacted school boards across the country. Candidates endorsed by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis did well in school board elections and other conservative candidates won across the country. As Accuracy in Academia previously reported, Florida […]