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Last November, North Thurston Public Schools, located east of Olympia, Washington, made headlines when their yearly “equity report” removed Asian students from the “person of color” category. Instead, they were lumped in with whites in a dishonest attempt to emphasize the “persistent opportunity gaps” experienced by minority populations. After intense pushback, the district removed the […]

Social media platforms and technology continue to expand more and more into our daily lives. Billions of people use social media as a source of communication, entertainment, and news. The power these sites have continues to grow at an exponential rate. The Pew Research Center found that 53% of Americans get news from social media […]

While most people would consider topics such as science and math to be essential components of an elementary school education, the principal of East Side Community High in New York City believes students and their parents need to spend more time considering their “white identity.” Last week, Mark Federman, disseminated a “tool for action” asking […]

Among its many left-wing policy actions, the Biden administration dropped a racial discrimination lawsuit against Yale University last month. This action spurred The Students for Fair Admission (SFFA) group to file a complaint that Yale University violated the Civil Rights Act in its admission policies by racially discriminating against Asian-American applicants. Filed in the U.S. […]

The coronavirus pandemic exacerbated many college and university’s biggest threat: students aren’t buying their pitches to pay tens of thousands of dollars a year for an undergraduate degree. The Detroit Free Press profiled Albion College, a small, private liberal arts institution in southern Michigan, and showed how the college is struggling to survive due to […]

A single tweet landed a lecturer at Baylor University in rhetorical hot water, which is yet another example of the widespread toxicity of cancel culture. Cancel culture is the Left’s anti-free speech tactic to publicly shame, ridicule, or isolate people for various actions or words. English lecturer Dr. Christina Crenshaw tweeted her thoughts about President […]

In an eventful first week as Commander-in-Chief, President Biden has already signed at least 22 executive orders into law. Despite claims during his campaign that governing by executive order was dictatorial, Biden has not been afraid to introduce sweeping changes with the stroke of a pen, signing more presidential memorandums during his first week in […]

In October 2017, 4chan user, “Q Clearance Patriot,” claiming to have insider knowledge of the Trump administration and other high-profile politicians, made his first post on the shady internet forum. Titled “The Calm Before the Storm,” the purported government operative outlined the plans of the new Trump administration to unveil and arrest a secret cabal […]

After mob violence engulfed the U.S. Capitol, public school districts across the country issued scathing condemnations of the violence while ignoring their priority: focusing on educating students during a pandemic. Across the country, public school districts issued statements and press releases which were filled with left-wing ideological buzzwords such as “white supremacy” and “racial justice.” […]

Although America’s political parties are as divided as ever, it would be expected that the education of our country’s youth would be spared from the conflict. However, the year 2020, composed of brimming racial tensions, the coronavirus, and a presidential election, illuminated the goals of the left within our nation’s system of education. Following endless […]

As 2020 comes to a close, there is a stark divide between the dogmatic liberal fanatics and common- sense conservatives regarding the global coronavirus pandemic. This year was a trying year, full of social media-fueled boycotts, public shaming or “cancel culture,” protests and counter-protests, and government-mandated economic shutdowns. Educators and academics did not shy away […]

Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. In April, leadership at Tufts University outside Boston was embarrassed when  it was disclosed that Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the toxic […]