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When White House waived No Child Left Behind standards in order to give grants to states and localities with no strings attached, the Obama Administration’s Department of Education may have actually replaced the string with rope.

Professors still believe that the woes that afflict higher education can be solved through federal intervention.

Students today walk a fine line between comedy and tragedy.

Is the Millennial Generation just plain dumb? That’s the premise put forward by Emory University professor Mark Bauerlein.

Despite what Americans have been hearing about the nation’s poor civics literacy, renowned education reformer Diane Ravitch suggests that, on historical subjects at least, civics education may have made “some headway.”

How much do American high-schoolers know about their literary heritage? Not much, apparently.

Palestinian activism morphs into an attack on Jewish identity, not just on Israel The campus war against Israel, now some decades old, has been unrelenting in its vicious assault against the Jewish state, led by such radical pro-Palestinian student groups as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) with some 200 chapters nationwide. The real intention […]

Education reform is allegedly on the minds of teachers’ unions in West Virginia, which is a politically-red state. The West Virginia Federation of Teachers and West Virginia Education Association announced five listening sessions, or public focus groups as they called it, throughout the state in the coming weeks. These unions are the state affiliates for […]

In a nod to his progressive base and what seems to be a naked tactic to buy the votes of young, educated future Democrats, President Biden seems to have made good on at least one of his campaign promises. In August, the White House announced a plan to eliminate for borrowers some of the “skyrocketing […]

It is no secret that left-wing teachers’ unions and activists harbor ill will toward conservative, free-market and pro-charter school figures. The Tennessee Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (TACTE) blasted Republican Gov. Bill Lee for not condemning remarks that mocked teachers from conservative figure Larry Arnn. Arnn, who is the president of the conservative Hillsdale […]

An “anti-racism” audit, currently underway in Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) system, earned the applause of liberal parents, students, and the mainstream media. The Washington Post’s glowing article portrayed the audit as a noble effort to root out anti-minority racism in the D.C. metropolitan area. As Accuracy in Academia has reported, the county system […]

A Utah education activist named Natalie Cline posted a concerning document, sent to her from an anonymous source, which detailed how a Brigham Young University sociology professor had her students conduct a “Revealing Whiteness Activity.” The text of the assignment can be considered offensive and controversial because it accuses BYU of having “different aspects of […]