Remote learning has failed our kids
A school social worker warns from experience about depressed students and dropouts working at McDonald’s
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January 7, 2022
How Education Week controls the classroom
I didn’t know our teacher training was a form of brainwashing
January 4, 2022
Ms. Work-to-Rule and our fading school standards
Covid conscious, allergic to academic rigor, the head of your local teachers union is in charge now
January 3, 2022
The Tudor roots of wokecraft
The Reformation was a top-down affair, an agenda imposed by a cultural and political elite
Are New England’s stone heaps Native Americans’ sacred ruins?
Native Americans are being exploited by self-interested settler-colonists — yet again
December 30, 2021
Exclusive: Georgetown’s Covid restrictions served with a side of hypocrisy
Another public health official flouts her own guidance
Anthropology has turned its back on its legacy
At its best, the discipline taught us that our follies are as universal as our aspirations
December 16, 2021
I took Hillary Clinton’s Masterclass in ‘resilience’
So you don’t have to
November 29, 2021
The GOP must remain the party of parents
The Democratic motto could be ‘safe spaces in classrooms and rape in bathrooms’
November 23, 2021
The University of Austin: a meteor aimed at higher ed?
‘Liberal educators’ might sneer but they’re very worried
November 18, 2021
There’s nothing ‘phony’ about the culture war
These battles, typically over race, sexuality and national identity, are defining issues for our time
November 7, 2021
The nationwide school revolt is on
Parents are rising up, determined that their children not be critical race theory guinea pigs
November 5, 2021
A little less self-expression, please
What lap dances at a Kentucky high school can teach us about the modern self
November 2, 2021
Terry McAuliffe’s latest education hypocrisy
He claims we need more teacher diversity — what about the private schools where he sent his kids?
October 27, 2021
‘The truth is out’: inside a Loudoun County school board meeting
‘You’re all busted’
October 20, 2021
Don’t worry: colleges are still insufferably woke post-COVID
On campus, ‘right-handed privilege’ is IN and cis male contractors are OUT
October 18, 2021
Why trigger warnings don’t work
They only reached popular consciousness in the 2010s, when feminist blogs used them ahead of content about sexual violence
The problem with Ovid
Ovid clearly was not an enlightened modern
Loudoun County’s vicious mediocrities
The woke school board covers up a sexual assault to stay in power
October 5, 2021
Is this the beginning of the end of the Biden administration?
Merrick Garland has instructed the FBI to mobilize against parents who oppose critical race theory in public schools
September 26, 2021
Into the lioness’s den: why higher education is skewed against men
Time to stop teaching that masculinity is toxic and start caring about our future husbands and fathers
September 13, 2021
How Harvard went woke
Harvard University claims to be America’s finest — but it has become a hotbed of timidity and bigotry
September 11, 2021
What high-school history books teach about 9/11
Most portray the attacks as just something that happened
September 8, 2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones schools a teacher
The godmother of 1619-ism takes on the anti-CRT movement
September 1, 2021
Give me back my homecoming, Georgetown
Hoya Sucks-a
August 30, 2021
What can’t civil rights law do?
The Biden administration seeks to ban states from banning school districts from banning unmasked faces
August 24, 2021
CRT is the dialectic of suicide
Why are white people so reluctant to tell the truth about critical race theory?
August 20, 2021
The future of liberal education
The war on liberal education is an assault on liberal democracy
August 1, 2021
When child abuse was avant-garde
The prominence of pedophilia in Sixties and Seventies thought
