Cancel Culture Comes to Cronkite
Walter Cronkite said on receiving a global-governance award in 1999: “I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.” Today, those who attend…
The Charter School Advantage
Public charter schools were once viewed as a nonpartisan compromise between vouchers for private schools and no choice at all. Not now. In its 2020 national platform, the Democratic Party…
The Hard Truth about Remote Learning This Fall
The kitchen table will once again serve as a makeshift desk for millions of students when they head “back to school” in the next few weeks. Seventeen of the nation’s 20…
Why Democrats Have Started To Cave On Reopening Schools
Prominent Democrat politicians have started making huge concessions on reopening schools. Back in May, Democrats pounced after President Trump supported reopening. Despite the data finding precisely the opposite, it quickly became the Democrat-media complex line that opening…
When Educrats Can’t Even Agree That 2+2=4, Public Education Is A Joke
It started on July 5 when Nikole Hannah-Jones, who penned the lead essay for The New York Times’ 1619 Project, was trolled with a meme. The meme came from philosopher…
School Choice Is the Only Option
STANFORD – After years of rumblings for change in US education, the COVID-19 pandemic is becoming a catalyst for improving the system. America’s educational divide – especially in grades K-12…
It’s Time to Fund Learning, Not Schools
There’s a lot riding on whether the nation’s children go back to school in the fall. The restoration of the economy. The ability of many parents to return to work.…
A Futuristic Vision of Higher Education
Let me begin by stipulating that I do not consider myself an authority on the future of higher education. I have been too long absent from the field to have…
Parents propose a new way to educate their children in the fall: School pods
It looks the same in all of my local Facebook groups: “Looking for a small group of 1st graders to go in on a homeschool type pod where we hire…
Bigotry Still in Evidence at the Supreme Court
In a remarkable turn of events, four members of the United States Supreme Court recently affirmed the constitutionality of state-sponsored religious bigotry. On June 30, by a vote of 5-4,…
China’s Propaganda Centers On U.S. Campuses Must Be Shut Down
A concerned student at Binghamton University, a public university in New York, challenged the propriety of the school’s partnership with the China-funded Confucius Institute on its campus earlier this year.…
Coronavirus Tests America’s Social Capacity
A few months after September 11, 2001, David Brooks went back and looked at coverage of Pearl Harbor for an article in the Weekly Standard (“After Pearl Harbor,” December 10, 2001). What…
The Student Debt You Willingly Took On Is Not My Problem To Solve
Of all the pandering showcased during Democrats’ attempts to win back the presidency, wiping out student debt ranked at or near the top. “I believe that education is the future…
New Jersey Public Schools To Teach LGBT Ideology In Every Subject
A little more than a year ago, the New Jersey Legislature passed, and Gov. Phil Murphy signed, a law mandating the teaching of LGBT subject matter in public school curriculum, beginning in…
Wisconsin Parents Sue To Keep Schools From Hiding Their Kids’ Gender Dysphoria
Wisconsin’s second-largest school district so far won’t back off a policy of keeping minor students’ transgender experimentation secret from their parents despite a new lawsuit filed Tuesday. A group of…