From School Reform News: School authorities in California sent a letter to homeschool parents telling them homeschooling is illegal, which is not true. The Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) reports all of its members in…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Pepperdine Students Claim Columbus Statue is a ‘Celebration of Genocide’
College students at the posh, close-to-the-beach Pepperdine University are complaining about a statue of Christopher Columbus: Pepperdine University students spent their day off Monday protesting Christopher Columbus’ “culturally insensitive form of international exploration” and demanding…
Harvard Law Graduate: Free Speech has a History of Oppression and Racism
This from the College Fix: The Harvard Crimson reports that Albert dubs such terms “legal talismans” — a “legal term of art, out of place, invoked to make or justify substantive decisions that do not…
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Poll: Public Support for Common Core has Fallen by 40%
From the School Reform News, published by the Heartland Institute: The survey, titled “Ten-Year Trends in Public Opinion from the EdNext Poll,” conducted by Education Next, a journal published by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program…
Perverting College Coursework to Conform to Ideology
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at the Times of Israel. In April of 2012, the California Association of Scholars, a division of the National Association of Scholars, prepared a report for the University of…
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Hillary’s Abortion Doctor
A great piece by our friend Paul Kengor at the American Spectator: In the course of the research for that book, which was titled, God and Hillary Clinton, I stumbled upon a claim that blew…
Dear Colleges: You Have No Right to Limit Free Speech
The director of Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) wrote an op-ed in TIME on the issue of colleges limiting free speech: University campuses are now home to a plethora of speech restrictions. From sidewalk-sized “free-speech…
Arkansas Launches First-Ever School Voucher Program
Our friend Cheryl Chumley noted how the state of Arkansas started a school voucher program specifically for special-needs children: Arkansas recently launched the Succeed Scholarship Program for Students with Disabilities (SSPSD), a school voucher program…
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School Choice Extension Bill Blocked by California Democratic Assemblywoman
California lawmakers are looking at whether to extend the school choice program an additional five years, but one lawmaker is taking a stand against it: California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) has halted extension of…
Northwestern Football Players Can’t be Banned from Using Social Media
After a complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Northwestern University’s football players cannot be banned from using social media, which could be considered ‘unfair labor practices.’