Why legacy students aren’t a civil rights issue
The upwelling of complaint is entirely a raspatory exercise
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July 12, 2023
Notre Dame’s professor of Sesame Street sues student journalists for ‘defamation’
Tamara Kay has filed suit against campus paper the Rover … but they have the receipts
July 10, 2023
Is the age of the legacy student over?
‘The overwhelming response I’ve received is that legacy must be the next to go’
July 5, 2023
A better way to go to college: at sea
Just as important as what they study and do would be what they would be kept away from
The Youngkin-Sears playbook for 2024
Republicans can seize control of a traditionally Democratic issue: education
July 3, 2023
NPR says Asian Americans should love affirmative action
Apparently Asians have been ‘bamboozled’
June 30, 2023
SCOTUS has made the right call on student debt forgiveness
Biden’s attempt to wipe out debt via executive order was clearly unconstitutional
Singapore should serve as a model for how to fix racial disparities
State and civil society-led programs boost minority students’ achievements by focusing on education
Why the Supreme Court’s Harvard decision matters
It is the culmination of decades of advocacy
June 28, 2023
On the ground with the Muslim Montgomery County parents protesting the school board’s LGBT curriculum
‘The school system is just focused on social agendas and actually not on educating my children’
June 18, 2023
In praise of encyclopedias
Two new books take on the amorphous subject of knowledge
Why civics test scores are falling in American schools
For the next generation, history isn’t being rewritten. It’s being intentionally obscured
May 26, 2023
The truth about ‘book bans’
The left has found its answer to the parental rights movement
May 4, 2023
Pursued by the trans mob with Liz Wheeler on campus
At first I thought she was being overly paranoid about what might happen at JMU. Then I saw videos of the protest
Funding frozen for conservative student groups at Northwestern after James Lindsay event
They are set to be punished for a flyer which superimposed a skull and crossbones over a Pride flag
May 1, 2023
The China influence puzzle
The CCP is trying to subvert our schools. Confucius Institutes are just the beginning
Illinois high school offers racially segregated math classes
‘This course is restricted to students who identify as Latinx’
April 24, 2023
Stanford students vote to Make College Fun Again
Fun, indeed, strikes back
April 20, 2023
Will US colleges’ brand power survive falling standards?
Elite schools have embraced the Red Bull model
April 17, 2023
Will school choice destroy the Democratic Party?
The threat of fewer teachers in unions is a real and existential one
April 15, 2023
University of Memphis professors put through patronizing DEI training — and it’s mandatory
Tennessee taxpayers are footing the bill for a childish pop quiz
April 7, 2023
Homeschooling is having a moment
Little beyond family context can move the needle as far as educational outcomes are concerned
April 6, 2023
This is how small colleges die
Higher education subsists on government largesse. That entails substantial risk
March 30, 2023
In LA, unions are winning at the expense of kids
The most recent strike saw the union awarded almost all of its demands — while kids lost classroom time
March 28, 2023
Four ways to stop public school lunches from making kids fat
Taxpayers deserve better than what passes for food in our schools
March 24, 2023
Stanford Law has a Trigglypuff problem
A judge is shouted down as academe continues its flight from reality
March 16, 2023
How to stop law students from blocking free speech
Let employers and state licensing boards know what they did
March 10, 2023
Make the colleges pay
Biden misplaces the blame for the student debt crisis
February 15, 2023
How teachers’ unions could unwittingly usher in school choice
By supporting wealth taxes, they’re showing they don’t understand the math — naturally
