Guest Articles How About “America First” for College Admissions? Cliff Kincaid February 8, 2017 In a recent article, “Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges,” The Washington Post stumbled on…
Faculty Lounge Teen Threw Paper Airplane at Teacher, Faces a Month in Jail Spencer Irvine January 31, 2017 From Reason: Georgetown County, South Carolina, sheriff’s deputies arrested a 17-year-old for throwing a paper airplane at a teacher. The…
Faculty Lounge As New York Schoolchildren Get Older, They Do Worse on Math Spencer Irvine January 27, 2017 From School Reform News: Results of 2016 state testing data indicate 44 percent of New York 3rd graders were proficient…
Faculty Lounge Most Millennials Favor School Choice Spencer Irvine From School Reform News: The authors of the EdChoice “2016 Schooling in America” report included an expanded sampling of millennials,…
Faculty Lounge More Schools are Reducing or Eliminating Homework Spencer Irvine From School Reform News: The Orchard School, an elementary school in South Burlington, Vermont, eliminated homework during the 2016–17 school…
Faculty Lounge 3 Things You Should Know about Trump Pick Betsy DeVos Spencer Irvine December 15, 2016 From the Home School Legal Defense Association: Some commentators have expressed concerns about a few of the organizations she is…
Faculty Lounge Texas State Board of Education Rejects Mexican-American Textbook Over ‘Undocumented Immigrant’ Term Spencer Irvine November 18, 2016 NBC News claimed that the phrase and term “undocumented immigrant” is racist, which is a reason why the Texas State…
Perspectives America’s K-12 Reeducation Camps Malcolm A. Kline November 11, 2016 Wright State University Professor Martin Kich is absolutely gleeful over a poll showing students not yet eligible to vote would,…
Faculty Lounge NAACP Denies Children Their Education Civil Rights Spencer Irvine November 3, 2016 A great take from Star Parker: It’s a rare day when the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal, The…
Faculty Lounge ‘To be White is to be Racist’, said One Oklahoma High Schoolteacher Spencer Irvine October 23, 2016 White privilege is seen as a real threat, apparently: Another educator who seems to believe it is his job to…
Faculty Lounge Does the NAACP Want to Keep Minority Children Trapped in Poverty? Spencer Irvine October 20, 2016 An insightful piece from the Wall Street Journal: The NAACP’s statement Saturday shows how out of touch its well-to-do board…
Faculty Lounge Poll finds 85% of Black Voters think North Carolina should Expand School Choice Spencer Irvine 85% of black voters in North Carolina want more school choice, poll finds.
