- Education. “School Choice Showdown in Michigan.” [Gov. Whitmer stands in the schoolhouse door on options for parents.] 11-2-21
- Education. “The School Board Revolt.” 11-6-21
- Education. “Biden Policy disrespects Both Science And Religion.” By Jerry C. Davis. [The Administration seeks to force our Christian college to let men live in women’s dormitories.]. 11-17-21
- Education. “The Crumbling Pillar of Education.” By Andy Kessler. [A proposed California ballot measure would make good schools a constitutional right.] 11-29-21
- Education. “’Leadership’ And Dirty Tricks at Harvard.” By Michael Cheng. [The student council’s extreme measures to stave off a ‘vote of no confidence.’] 11-30-21
- Education. “School Closures Aren’t Just for Covid Anymore.” By Leslie Bienen. [Remote learning turns out to be an easy fix for other problems – never mind the huge education costs.] 11-29-21
- Education. “United Auto Workers of the Ivy League.” [A brawl over pay at Columbia challenges academic solidarity with the working class.] 12-18-21
- Education. “Purdue Sends a Message to China.” 12-18-21
- Education. “By Ditching the SAT, Harvard Hurts Minority Students.” By Jason L. Riley. [How do you help young people move forward without honestly assessing where they stand.] 12-22-21
- Education. “What Does a Library’s ‘Diversity Auditor’ Do?” by Faith Bottum. [Bard College says it aims at ‘canonizing the stacks’ but that doesn’t mean removing books.] 1-20-22
- Education. “A Faithful Way to Learn.” (Bookshelf by Naomi Schaefer Riley.) “God, Grades, and Graduation.” By Dana M. Horwitz. [Religious communities teach the importance of respecting authority and being cooperative. Such lessons can boost classroom performance.] 1-25-22
- Education. “Race, Harvard and the Supreme Court.” [The Justices will get a chance to vindicate the 14th Amendment.] 1-25-22
- Education. “A Chance to Remove Race From College Admissions.” By Jason L. Riley. [After equivocating for decades, will the Supreme Court finally declare that discrimination is illegal?] 1-26-22
- Education. “Why Colleges Don’t Care About Free Speech.” By John Hasnas. [It’s incentives more than ideology, and there’s a simple fix.] 2-7-22
- Education. “The Intolerant Shouldn’t Be Judges.” By Phillip Hamburger. [Law school deans, faculty and students who stifle opposing views are unfit ever to sit on the bench.] 2-10-22
- Education. “San Francisco’s Political Foreshock.” [The woke get a wake-up call as voters recall three school board members.] 2-17-22
- Education. “San Francisco Schools the Left.” By Peggy Noonan. ‘The landslide recall of three Board of Education members will have major national repercussions.] 2-19-22
- Education. “The School Shutdowns and Lost Literacy.” 2-25-22
- Education. “Phil Murphy Stifles New Jersey’s Charter Schools.” By Jason L. Riley. [In his first term, the Democratic governor denied nearly two-thirds of requested expansions.] 3-16-22
- Education. “Unpinning The Butterflies.” (Bookshelf by Barbara Spindel.) “The Child is the Teacher.” By Cristina De Stefano. [Maria Montessori’s campaign to reform early-childhood education had foundations in science. She pursued it with religious zeal.] 3-17-22
- Education. “Free Inquiry Suffers as War Fever Grips Harvard.” By M. Todd Henderson. [A university’s purpose isn’t to rally support. It’s to provide a haven for debate, including dissent.] 3-17-22
- Education. “The Great Pandemic Student-Loan Scam.” 3-19-22
- Education. “Florida Helps Families See Behind the College Curtain.” By Tarren Bragdon. [A new data base makes it easier to compare majors, job outcomes, loan burdens and future earnings.] 3-19-22
- Education. “Yale Law Students for Censorship.” [Maybe those who shout down speakers shouldn’t get judicial clerkships.] 3-21-22
- Education. “Mob Rule at Hastings Law School.” By Ilya Shapiro. [Will the students who screamed obscenities and physically confronted me face any discipline?] 3-23-22
- Education. “A Case of Charter School Sabotage.” [Biden’s regulators find another way to undermine school choice.] 3-28-22
- Education. “The Biden Plan to Raise college Tuition.” [He wants to double Pell Grants, a gift to the higher-education lobby.] 3-30-22
- Education. “Test Scores Count Again at MIT.” [The SAT and ACT can help identify disadvantaged talent.] 3-31-22
- Education. “Iowa’s School Choice Opportunity.” [The state Senate votes to empower parents, not teachers unions.] 4-4-22
- Education. “MIT Leads the Way in Reinstating the SAT.” by Jason L. Riley. [Expect others to follow. Selective institutions that don’t use standardized tests will fall behind.] 4-6-22
- Education. “Student Loan Forbearance – Forever?” [Biden extends the debt moratorium again, and more may be coming.] 4-7-22
- Education. “Revolt of the Parents, vol. 3.” [The GOP is wining local races over Covid policies and curriculum.] 4-7-22
- Education. “Student-Loan Reparations.” [Biden takes another big step toward mass debt forgiveness.] 4-22-22
- Education. “Massachusetts May Take Control of Boston’s Public Schools.” By Roger Lowenstein. [If the city can’t improve 34 underperforming schools, the state superintendent has said he will step in.] 4-23-22
- Education. “Prayer Shouldn’t Be a Firing Offense.” 4-25-22
- Education. “The Biden Administration’s New Salvo Against Charter Scholls.” By Jason L. Reilly. [A federal study finds the regular system is failing. The same department seeks to block alternatives.] 4-27-22
- Education. “Americans for Merit-Based Admissions.” [Poll respondents say academic achievement matters more than race.] 4-29-22
- Education. “The Taxpayer Con of the Century.” [Writing off student debt is a wealth transfer to the affluent and academia.] 4-30-22
- Education. “Student Loan Truth Telling.” [Jim Clyburn explains why Democrats are so intent on a bailout.] 5-3-22
- Education. “Teachers Unions vs. Children With Autism.” By Naomi Schaefer Riley. [Proposed new rules from Washington would hinder charter schools like Lionsgate Academy.] 5-7-22
- Education. “A Parental Victory on Free Speech.” [An Ohio woman sued after a school board chief told her to ‘zip it.’] 5-9-22
- Education. “Democrats vs. Biden on Charter Schools.” [ Senators oppose and parents rally against new limits on federal grants.] 5-11-22
- Education. “Student Loan Relief should Come in Bankruptcy Court.” By Richard J/ Shinder. [Blanket forgiveness would be a massive and unfair transfer of wealth with perverse consequences.] 5-11-22
- Education. “Slavery, Anti-Semitism and Harvard’s Missing Moral Compas.” By Ruth R. Wisse. [An official report and a student editorial reflect the confused state of higher education’s values.] 5-14-22
- Education. “Don’t Cancel the Classics, Broaden and Diversify them.” By Angel Adams Parham. [Black Americans in past centuries fought for the right to be educated in Western civilization.] 5-21-22
- Education. “A To-Do List for the Class of ’22.” By Andy Kessler. [Prize your reputation, take smart risks, be kind, don’t gossip and never be satisfied.] 5-23-22
- Education. “Princeton Fed Me to the Cancel Culture Mob.” By Joshua Katz. [The university claims it fired me for a long-past offense but the truth should worry everyone.] 5-25-22
- Education. “Chiefly Illiterate in San Francisco Schools.” [The district pulls ‘chief’ from its CFO’s title as a gesture to Natives.] 5-27-22
- Education. “Colleges Need Merit-Based Admissions.” By Alan M. Dershowitz. 6-2-22
- Education. “A Reading From Kamala to the Corinthians.” [The Veep helped kill the colleges and is sticking taxpayers with the debt.] 6-3-22
- Education. “The Georgetown Law Purge.” [“…underscores again that American academia is dominated by the censoring left…”] 6-7-22
- Education. “Why I Quit Georgetown.” By Ilya Shapiro. [The university didn’t fire me, but it abandoned free speech and created a hostile environment.] 6-7-22
- Education. “The Parental Revolt Continues.” [Ballotopedia finds voters delivered a school board shake up in April.] 6-8-22
- Education. “Student Debt Forgiveness Makes My Grandson a Chump.” By Blake Hurst. [He’s 18 and working two jobs to help pay for college. He could have taken out loans at taxpayer expense.] 6-9-22
- Education. “Texas A&M’s Unreported Foreign Funding.” By Neetu Arnold. [Why the school says $100 million from Russia and Qatar is exempt from reporting requirements.] 6-18-22
- Education. “A School Choice Shake-Up in Iowa.” [Reform candidates backed by Gov. Reynold sweep to victory.] 6-18-22
- Education. “Religion, Schools and the Supreme Court.” [The Justices say Maine’s tuition program can’t exclude the faithful.] 6-22-22
- Education. “Betsy DeVos Is on a Mission to rescue Teachers Unions’ ‘Hostages.’ By Jason L. riley. [In an interview, the former education secretary says she thinks the pandemic was an inflection point.] 6-22-22
- Education. “Apprenticeships, Not College, Can help Reduce Unemployment.” By Paul Winfree and Rachel Greszler. [A flexible, industry-driven alternative for workforce education has a proven record of success.] 6-22-22
- Education. “Money for Children, Not Schools.” by Jeff Yass. [It’s time to stop writing blank checks for a failing system and reimagine the way we pay for education.] 6-23-22
- Education. “Biden Renews Obama’s Attack on Campus Due Process.” By Joe Cohn. [New Title IX regulations would eliminate cross-examination, live hearings another basic rights.] 6-24-22
- Education. “Back to the Title IX Legal Steamroller..” 6-25-22
- Education. “The Justices Give Education a Prayer.” By Max Raskin. [They scrap the Lemon test just as Americans discover a need for religious schools.] 6-28-22
- Education. “A Coach’s Prayer Is Constitutional.” [Another touchdown for religious liberty from the Supreme Court.] 6-28-22
- Education. “School Choice Blooms in the Desert.” [A bill in Arizona opens scholarship accounts to all students statewide.] 6-28-22
- Education. “Student Loan Forgiveness is a Political Bribe.” By Phil Gramm and Mike Solon. [Buying votes is the only possible justification for such an unfair giveaway of taxpayer money.] 6-30-22
- Education. “The Hard Truths of American History.” By William J. Bennett. [Teaching all aspects of the U.S.’s story will help depoliticize education and foster democracy.] 7-1-22
- Education. “Virginia Breaks the School-Choice Barrier.” [Gov. Youngkin gets funds for new schools in a state that restricts charters.] 7-5-22
- Education. “Build a School, Get Sued by the Union.” (The Weekend Interview with Ian Rowe and Joyanet Mangual by Tunku Varadarajan.] [A charter is set to open next month on the old Blessed Sacrament campus in the Bronx. Its founders are confident they’ll beat back the legal challenge.] 7-9-22
- Education. “The LSAT and Other Standardized Tests Are Good for Diversity.” By Fred Sracic. [Objective measures of ability give my working-class students a shot at going to a top law school.] 7-25-22
- Education. “Medical Education Goes Woke.” [Future doctors will learn how health relates to ‘systems of oppression.’] 7-27-22
- Education. “Stop Classroom Learning, Lose Students.” [School shutdowns cost public schools dearly, as enrollment plunged.] 8-1-22
- Education. “Republican Censors Go for Woke.” By Michael R. Bloomberg. [Ron DeSantis’s efforts to control educational and corporate speech are no better than the left’s.] 8-16-22
- Education. “Woke Activism Is Flooding American Classrooms.” By Daniel Buck. [Wisconsin education schools openly embrace a Marxist program called ‘critical pedagogy.’] 8-20-22
- Education. “Harvard’s Invidious Racial Boxes.” By Wm. McGurn. [Not only preferences but the Categories that colleges use are unconstitutional.] 8-23-22
- Education. “Censorship at a Top College for Free Speech.” By Christopher Nadon. [Claremont McKenna threatened to bar me from teaching required classes for quoting ‘Huck Finn.’] 8-23-22
- Education. “The Chautauqua Institution Isn’t What It Used to Be.” By Jason L. Riley. [Once a haven for open inquiry and civil debate, the New York resort has become predictably woke.] 8-24-22
- Education. “A School Board Revolt in Florida.” 8-25-22
- Education. “Student Loan Reform Is Now Urgent.” By Preston Cooper. [Biden has set in motion a cycle of escalating costs, more worthless degrees, and repeated forgiveness.] 8-25-22
- Education. “Colleges Love Loan Forgiveness.” [Academia has profited from subsidies as tuition costs keep climbing.] 8-26-22
- Education. “The Unmaking of American History.” By Dominic Green. [Scholars increasingly abandon the past to focus on present-day politics.] 8-27-22
- Education. “Biden’s Other Title IX Outrage.” By Kendall Tietz. [Bureaucrats target girls’ and women’s sports by redefining ‘sex’ discrimination.] 8-30-22
- Education. “Campus Wokeness Harms America Globally.” By Walter Russell Mead. [Promoting liberal values world-wide was long central to higher education’s mission.] 8-30-22
- Education. “’Popular’ Historians Are No Longer Alone in Being Lured by Politics.” By Elliot Kaufman. [A common theme unites Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Praise of Bien and the hounding of James Sweet.] 8-30-22
- Education. “Way More Than $10,000 in Debt Forgiveness.” By Wm A. Galston. [An accompanying change in repayment policy will have an even greater effect.] 8-31-22
- Education. “Why I Quit teaching at Oberlin.” By Abraham Socher. [The deans’ oppression extends even to the town beyond campus.] 9-2-22
- Education. “Randi Weingarten Flunks the Pandemic.” [National test results reveal the damage from school closures.] 9-2-22
- Education. “Student Loans and the National Debt.” By Mitch Daniels. [Purdue students learn to be responsible while their peers get bailouts. There will be a reckoning.] 9-2-22
- Education. “When Connoisseurs. Yield to Commissars.” By Eric Gibson. [Woke ideologues are taking over American art museums. The result is as ugly as you’d expect.] 9-3-22
- Education. CRT. “How Teachers Are Secretly Taught Critical Race Theory.” By Nicole Ault and Megan Keller. [A Pennsylvania father’s determined effort to find out what’s being taught to his kids’ instructors.] 9-3-22
- Education. “Student-Loan Forgiveness Raises a Basic Question About College.” By Jason L. Riley. [Are too many young people attending to begin with? Degrees have benefits for many, but not for all.] 9-7-22
- Education. “Higher Ed Can Rediscover its Purpose.” By Allen C. Guelzo and Scott L. Wyatt. [Colleges and universities have become stupefied by their ‘brands’ and forgotten their students.] 9-8-22
- Education. “A Betting Man With a Plan to Save America.” (The Weekend Interview with Jeff Yass by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.) [Susquehanna’s co-founder explains his support for school choice and how he’d use prediction markets o solve our biggest problems.] 9-10-22
- Education. “A White House Student Loan Whopper.” [You won’t believe the explanation for why the write-off is all ‘paid for.’] 9-10-22
- Education. “CBO Rebuts the White House.” [The budget gnomes explain why student loans aren’t ‘paid for.’] 9-12-22
- Education. “We’re All Jews Now.” By Wm. McGurn. [Every American has a stake in upholding Yeshiva University’s right to free exercise.] 9-13-22
- Education. “What Rights Do Hasidic Schools Have?” by Wm. A. Galston. [Government can impose some limits on religion when there’s a compelling reason.] 9-14-22
- Education. “A Democrat Defects on School Choice.” By Corey DeAngelis. [Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro put parents over teachers unions.] 9-20-22
- Education. “No Student Loan Borrower Left Behind.” [Now Democratic Senators want to forgive parental loan debt.] 9-21-22
- Education. “I committed Journalism, and Princeton Told Me Not to Communicate.” By Danielle Shapiro. [The university transforms a shield against sexual harassment into a sword against the student press.] 9-24-22
- Education. “Hooray, a Student Loan Plaintiff.” [A man hurt by Bien’s illegal forgiveness sues to block it.] 9-28-22
- Education. “The College Board’s Racial Pandering.” By Jason L. Riley. [Rather than directing help at struggling students, it establishes a new course in African-American studies.] 9-28-22
- Education. “Arizona School-Choice Opponents Admit Defeat.” By Corey DeAngelis. 9-29-22
- Education. “Biden’s Student Loan Admission.” [The White House restricts some write-offs after six states sue.] 10-3-22
- Education. “What Role should Race Play in Admissions?” by Wm A. Galston. [“Holistic’ policies put Asian-Americans at a disadvantage, and they’re fighting back.] 10-5-22
- Education. Is College Worth It? Not for Everyone.” By Larry Hogan. [A degree should signify an education, not only a credential.] 10-5-22
- Education. “Illinois’s Shocking Report Card.” [“…contradiction shows the system is corrupt as well as incompetent.”] 10-5-22
- Education. “Racial Preferences Harm Their Beneficiaries, Too.” By Jason L. Riley. [Favored minorities struggle when they might have thrived at less-selective schools.] 10-5-22
- Education. “Stanford Apologizes to Jews.” 10-14-22
- Education. “If Stanford Owes You an Apology, Get in Line.” By Elliot Kaufman. [Jews could make a list, starting with confiscatory tuition, anti-Israel fixation and racial preferences.] 10-20-22
- Education. “The Legal Fight Over Student Loans.” [Biden wins in lower court, but the states have a strong case.] 10-24-22
- Education. “How to End the Epidemic of Failure in America’s Schools.” By Jeb Bush. [Lockdowns exacerbate the problem and shouldn’t become an excuse for refusing to address it.] 10-24-22
- Education. “The Dumbing Down of America.” [ACT test scores for college admission fall for the fifth year in a row.] 10-26-22
- Education. “Amid the Pandemic, Progress in Catholic Schools.” By Kathleen Porter-Magee. [Enrollment and student achievement are rising, thanks in part to parents.] 10-28-22
- Education. “Michigan’s Education Failure.” ‘Gov. Whitmer is having to defend the damage from school closures.] 10-31-22
- Education. “Race Has No Place in College Admissions.” By Edward Blum. [Why should some students have advantages over others simply because of the color of their skin?] 10-31-22
- Education. “Why Randi Weingarten Supports Harvard’s Discrimination.: by Allysia Finley. [Racial preferences help offset the inequities in K-12 education that teachers unions have created.] 10-31-22
- Education. “Hillsdale College Will Never Discriminate.” By Larry P. Arnn. [We stopped taking federal money when Washington demanded we count our students by race.] 11-7-22
- “The School-Choice Election Wave.” By Corey DeAngelis. [Even Democrats are adapting to new political realities.] 11-11-22
- Education. “Teachers Unions Buy Themselves a ‘Millionaires Tax’ in Massachusetts.” By Steven Malanga. [For a measly outlay of $23 million, unions secured $1 billion in new annual education funding.] 11-12-22
- Education. “Biden’s Loan Write-Off Loses Again.” [An appellate court orders an injunction on student forgiveness.] 11-15-22
- Education. “Yale and Harvard Law Unrank Themselves.” [The schools may be adapting ahead of a Supreme Court ruling.] 11-18-22
- Education. “A Conservative Magazine Returns to Harvard.” By Ruth R. Wisse. [The Salient’s new issue on motherhood and feminism is reflective, confident and affirmative.] 11-19-22
- Education. “School Choice Made Big Gains During the Covid Pandemic.” By Jason L. Riley. [Nearly 6 in 10 parents preferred learning pods to remote learning and traditional public schools.] 11-23-22
- Education. “America’s School Districts Are Too Big.” By Andy Smarick. [Communities feel they’ve lost the ability to influence bloated bureaucracies. Time to break them up.] 12-1-22
- Education. “The ‘Suicide’ of the Liberal Arts.” (The Weekend Interview with John Agresto by Naomi Schaefer Riley.) [Relativism gets a bum rap, this veteran academic says. The pursuit of credentials and specialization was a lot more harmful.] 12-3-22
- Education. “Charter Schools’ Success Makes Them a Political Target.” By Jason L. riley. [An educational innovation that once had bipartisan support faces adversity I Washington and the courts.] 12-14–22
- Education. “The Little Red Schoolhouse Could Do With a Little Competition.” By Corey DeAngello. [Choice hurts rural schools: The Teachers unions promote another easily debunked myth.] 12-17-22
- Education. “Brown University Discriminates Against South Asians.” By Suhag A. Shukla. [Its prohibition of ‘caste oppression’ creates a new offense of which only one ethnic group can be guilty.] 12-22-23
- Education. “A Federal Court Ruling Imperils the Charter-School Movement.” By Baker A. Mitchell and Robert P. Spencer.] The Fourth Circuit holds our school is a ‘state actor,’ even though the law makes its independence clear.] 1-4-23
- Education. “Florida’s Education model Spreads.” [Gov-elect Sanders recruits a DeSantis administration reformer.] 1-6-23
- Education. “Biden’s Student Loan Write-Off, Part II.” [A Plan B to cancel debt in case his $400 billion write-off loses in court.] 1-11-23
- Education. “Racial Preferences and the Fainthearted Court.” By John B. Daukas. [For 45 years, the justices have tried to set strict limits and colleges have ignored them. It’s time for a bight-line ruling that discrimination is unlawful.] 1-14-23
- Education. “Katie Hobbs Wants to Turn Back the Clock.” By Jason Bedrick and Corey DeAngelis. [Arizona’s governor would repeal a 2022 school choice law.] 1-17-23
- Education. “Ph.D. Students fo the World, Unite.” [Northwestern grad students join the radio and machine workers.] 1-17-23
- Education. “State Lawmakers Can Reform Higher Ed.” By Ilya Shapiro and Christopher F. Rufo. [The vast majority of college students attend state schools.] 1-18-23
- Education. “Biden Gives a Boost to Schoolyard Bullies.” By Jason L. Riley. [As student misbehavior rises, he urges a return to Obama-era policies that encourage lax discipline.] 1-18-23
- Education. “Iowa’s School Choice Comeback.” [Gov. Reynolds’ political bet may pay off in greatly expanded ESAs.] 1-23-23
- Education. “Eric Adams Fails a Charter-School Test.” [A vote on three new sites for charters has been canceled. 1-24-23]
- Education. “The Numbers Show that MIT Has a Free-Speech Problem.” By Daryl Morey. [At this world-leading research institution, 40% of faculty say they self-sensor more than in 2020.] 1-24-23
- Education. “DeSantis Does an Education Two-Step.” [The governor offers teachers a pay raise with protection from unions.] 1-26-23
- Education. “UNC vs. the Echo Chamber.” [A public university is trying to create a true marketplace for ideas.] 1-27-23
- Education. “Are You There, M.B.A.? It’s Me, Industry.” By Suzy Welch. [Business-school graduates usually go into consulting, finance or tech. But there’s a whole world of other opportunities out there.] 1-28-23
- Education. “The School Choice Drive Accelerates.” 1-28-23
- Education. “Medical Schools Bail on Academic Merit and Intellectual Rigor.” By Ira Stoll. [Some refuse to be ranked by U.S. News, which weighs test scores and grades rather than diversity.] 1-30-23
- Education. “The Echo Chamber Fights Back.” [The UNC faculty is outraged that trustees take their job seriously.] 2-1-23
- Education. “Ron DeSantis Schools the College Board.” [The new AP course in African-American Studies cuts the CRT.] 2-2-23
- Education. “College Doesn’t Need to Take Four years.” By Scott L. Wyatt and Allen C. Guelzo. [For many students, the standard bachelor’s degree program has become a costly straitjacket.] 2-3-23
- Education. “School Choice Is Sweeping the Nation From Florida to Utah.” By Jeb Bush. [States are dramatically expanding the power of parents to control their children’s educations.] 2-4-23
- Education. “Socrates Never Wrote a Term Paper.” By Jeromy Tate. [Active participation trumps essays in classical education.] 2-6-23
- Education. “Florida Shows How to Combat Woke Indoctrination on Campus.” By Joshua Rauh. [Advocates are kidding themselves if they think free speech is enough to ensure academic freedom.] 2-9-23
- Education. “Make Yale Democratic Again.” [Students want to open up trustee elections to non-appointed alumni.] 2-10-23
- Education. “DEI Spells Death for the Idea of a University.” By Matthew Spalding. [Wherever this agenda is allowed to take root, free expression and academic integrity are doomed.] 2-11-23
- Education. “The UNC Fight Escalates.” [The school’s accreditor puts the university trustees on notice.] 2-13-23
- Education. “Medical Schools Stage a Mutiny.” By Fritz Francois and Ghenga Ogedegbe. [By stepping away from the U.S. News rankings, they imply that diversity and excellence are at odds.] 2-16-23
- Education. “No School on President’s Day, and Vice B Versa.” By Jay P. Greene and Ian Kingsbury. [Kids lose something when schools aren’t named after Lincoln or Washington.] 2-17-23
- Education. “UNC’s Plans, Revealed.” 2-17-23
- Education. “Summer School Can Remedy Pandemic Learning Loss.” By Michael r. Bloomberg. [A philanthropist -funded program in New York showed that students got back on track quickly.] 2-24-23
- Education. “Why We’re Challenging Biden’s Student-Debt Power Grab.” By Mike Hilgers. [The president flouted the law and used the pandemic as a pretext to claim breathtaking authority.] 2-28-23
- Education. “Why Elite Schools Can’t Stand U.S. News.” By Eric J. Gertler. [We provide students vital, accurate data. Schools don’t like to be held accountable.] 3-1-23
- Education. “Major Questions in the Student Loan Case.” [SG Prelogar tries to rewrite a landmark ruling from last year.] 3-1-23
- Education. “How the NIH Pushes DEI On Scientists.” By John Sailer. [The Institutes are spending $241 million to push ideological litmus test for faculty hiring.] 3-2-23
- Education. “College Should Be More Like Prison.” By Brooke Allen. [The inmates I teach are serious, disciplined, hard-working students, eager to engage with ideas.] 3-6-23
- Education. “Virginia’s Teachers Union and CRT.” [A toolkit pushes radical ideology on children despite Youngkin’s ban.] 3-9-23
- Education. “’Tar,’ a Breath of Fresh Air, Deserves the Oscar for Best Picture.” By Jason L. Riley. [The film’s dramatization of campus cancel culture gives the subject the treatment it deserves.] 3-8-23
- Education. “2023 Is Already a Record Year for School Choice.” By Corey DeAngelis. [Nebraska and North Dakota, both longtime laggards, have made progress in recent days.] 3-11-23
- Education. “Where’s Brian Kemp on School Choice? [The Georgia Governor is missing in action as reform stalls in Atlanta.] 3-17-23
- Education. “Who Owens the University?” by Richard Vedder. [As state-run schools push extreme ideologies, some lawmakers and governors have begun to puh back.] 3-17-23
- Education. “My Struggle Session at Stanford Law School.” By Stuart Kyle Duncan. [A dean voices pride that students are being taught to stage tantrums rather than make a reasoned case.] 3-18-23
- Education. “School Choice on the Florida-Georgia Line.” [Tallahassee expands its ESA options, but a vote will be close in Atlanta.] 3-25-23
- Education. “You Can’t Cancel Me, I Quit.” By Mary Eberstadt. [I was supposed to speak at Furman University. I decided to beg off rather than indulge an angry mob.] 3-27-23
- Education. “Tell the NCAA to Buzz Off.” By Wm. McGurn. [Oh, for the days when universities regarded academic standards as their own business.] 3-28-23
- Education. “Students Flee, but the Money Keeps Coming.” By Jeanne Alien. [An argument against educational choice falls apart when you follow where the funding goes.] 3-30-23
- Education. “Milton Friedman’s Revolution.” By Wm. McGurn. [Biden may write him off, but his idea for school choice is more popular than ever.] 4-4-23
- Education. “Snitches Get Sheepskins as Colleges Train Student Informants.” By Ivan Marinovic and John Ellis. [DEI meets East Germany: U.S. universities urge students to report one another for ‘bias.’] 4-7-23
- Education. “Education Freedom in North Carolina.” By Corey DeAngelis. [“…It isn’t certain all House Republicans in North Carolina will vote for universal school choice this year…”] 4-10-23
- Education. “Phil Murphy Puts Strikers Over Students.” 4-12-23
- Education. “Harvard Has a Free Speech Moment.” [Fifty professors form an alliance on academic freedom.] 4-13-23
- Education. “Leave the Yeshivas Alone.” By Wm. McGurn. [Hasidic Jews don’t need the New York Times’s input on how to educate their kids.] 4-18-23
- Education. “Technically Advanced.” (Bookshelf by Johnathan Marks.) “Shortchanged” by Annie Abrams. [ Originally intended to promote a liberal education, today’s advanced Placement program is far removed from that goal.] 4-20-23
- Education. “Randi Weingarten’s Privilege.” [“…unions object only when co-location is for a school that unions don’t control…”] 4-22-23
- Education. “The College Board’s Secret Apology.” [Private emails show it wasn’t honest about Ron DeSantis and African-American Studies.] 4-27-23
- Education. “On Randi Weingarten’s Waterfront.” By Wm. McGurn. [Power has blinded the union boss to the gifts she’s giving the cause of school choice.] 5-2-23
- Education. “Indiana Sets the School Voucher Pace.” [the Goosier State expands choice to nearly all K-12 Students.] 5-5-23
- Education. “Ohio May Start a Free Speech School.” 5-8-23
- Education. “DEI Brings Kafka to My Law School.” By Scott Gerber. [Ohio Northern University is trying to banish me for lack of ‘collegiality’ but won’t say what I’ve done.] 5-10-23
- Education. “The Education Department Helps Us Combat Woke Discrimination.” By Stanley Goldfarb and Mark J. Perry. [The Office for Civil Rights has pressed several med schools to ditch illegal race-based policies.] 5-12-23
- Education. “Vanderbilt’s Bold Stand for ‘Neutrality.” By Lamar Alexander. 5-16-23
- Education. “AI’s Education Revolution.” By Andy Kessler. [Khan Academy is using ChatGPT to bring one-on-one teaching to scale.] 5-22-23
- Education. Critical Race Theory. (Notable and Quotable) from the Spring issue of City Journal. [“…more than 80% of [Americans] who claimed to have heard of CRT either did not know that color-blindness is not aligned to CRT or were wrong and thought that it was…”] 5-24-23
- Education. “The Draft, Student Loans and College Privilege.” By Mihael Toth. [Debates over deferments and forgiveness raise similar questions about education and democracy.] 5-25-23
- Education. “The Empire Strikes Back.” By Wm McGurn. [Even if the Supreme Court rules against racial preferences, some plan to ignore it.] 5-30-23
- Education. “Racial Preferences Won’t Go Easily.” By Brian t. Fitzpatrick. [Colleges will seek sneaky ways of filling quotas.. But they’ll have trouble defending them in court.] 6-1-23
- Education. “The School-Choice Century.” By Michael Bindas.” [The key Supreme Court decision dates back to June 4, 1923.] 6-2-23
- Education. “An Officer and a Gentleman – and a High-School Student.” By Carine Hajjar. [The Philadelphia Military Academy offers a chance for career development and upward mobility.] 6-3-23
- Education. “Voting Down Biden’s Loan Forgiveness.” [Majorities in both houses of Congress reject his write-off.] 6-2-23
- Education. “Kids and the Power of the Spoken Word.” By Mark Bauerlein and David Mikics. [New standards in Georgia and Arkansas will require students to recite great poems or speeches.] 6-15-23
- Education. “Religious Charters Are OK in Oklahoma.” By Nicole Stelle Garnett. [St. Isidore’s approval is a win for authentic educational pluralism and faithful practice.] 6-16-23
- Education. “Charter Schools: The Latest Evidence.” [A nationwide study shows huge learning gains over union schools.] 6-16-23
- Education. “Religious Charters Are OK in Oklahoma.” By Nicole Stelle Garnett. [St. Isidore’s approval is a win for authentic educational pluralism and faithful practice.] 6-16-23
- Education. “Charter Schools: The Latest Evidence.” [A nationwide study shows huge learning gains over union schools.] 6-16-23
- Education. “I paid for Free Speech at Arizona State.” By Ann Atkinson. [The university is firing me for organizing an event featuring Charlie Kirk and Dennis Prager.] 6-20-23
- Education. “Another NAEP Score Disappointment.” [Learning loss for 13-year olds has become entrenched.] 6-23-23
- Education. “Phonics Finally Gets Its Due in New York.” By Eva Moskowitz. [It took the city’s education bureaucracy 20 years to recognize that the Success Academy approach works.] 6-24-23
- Education. “Josh Shapiro’s Voucher Test.” [A Democratic governor fights for school choice in Pennsylvania.] 6-28-23
- Education. “Randi Weingarten and Racial Disparities.” 7-1-23
- Education. “End College Legacy Preferences.” By Wm. A. Galston. [Favoring students for family connections is as at least as unfair as affirmative action.] 7-5-23
- Education. “A Josh Shapiro Sellout on School Choice.” [The Pennsylvania Governor sides with unions over poor kids.] 7-7-23
- Education. “Harvard’s Stages of Grief Ovr Affirmative Action.” By Ruth R. Wisse. [Today is a hard day,’ the university’s president said. Tomorrow the topic will finally be open to debate.] 7-7-23
- Education. “Josh Shapiro Chooses Teachers Unions Over Students.” By Charles Mitchell. [After backing the Lifeline Scholarship program, Pennsylvania’s governor now says he’ll veto it.] 7-8-23
- Education. “A Teachers Union Has Odd Taste in Books.” By Dave Seminara. [The NEA’s ‘2023 Summary Reading List’ may make you regret that you ever learned to read.] 7-10-23
- Education. “Harvard Discriminates Against Middle-Class Kids.” By Allysia Finley. [Legacy preferences hurt the less well-off but aid what really matters to the university: its endowment.] 7-10-23
- Education. “Racial Preferences Bred 50 Years of ‘Mismatch.’” By Heather Mac Donald. [Thinking elite schools are the only path to success for students is a form of intellectual snobbery.] 7-11-23
- Education. “Politicians Should Pay for Ignoring America’s Education Crisis.” By Michael R. Bloomberg. [both parties focus on votes instead of solutions such as tutoring, summer school and accountability.] 7-14-23
- Education. “Colleges Must Recruit Scholars.” By Daniel Piamko and Matthew Rascoff. [Online dual enrollment courses could help low-income students and schools find a good fit.] 7-15-23
- Education. “More Dollars Follow Ohio Students.” [The buckeye State makes vouchers universal and boosts charter schools.] 7-17-23
- Education. “America’s Largest Teachers Union Isn’t Beyond Reform.” By Scott Fitzgerald and Aaron Withe. [Washington can make the NEA less political and more accountable by revising its federal charter.] 7-19-23
- Education. “The Case for Legacy Admissions.” By James Hankins. [Institutional trust depends on loyalty and personal relationships\, but loyalty needs to run both ways.] 7-20-23
- Education. “The Post-Pandemic Teaching Loss.” 7-21-23
- Education. “’Antiracists’ vs. Academic Freedom.” [A California professor sues over new DELA performance reviews.] 7-22-23
- Education. “The Student Loan ‘Payment Shock.’” [Many borrowers took on other debt during Biden’s forbearance.] 7-22-23
- Education. “The Rising Demand for School Choice.” [Several states report big increases in voucher or ESA applications.] 7-31-23
- Education. “’Public Schools That Aren’t Public.” By Keri D. Ingraham. [Far from being open to all, admission is restricted by arbitrary district lines.] 8-9-23
- Education. “Can Harvard Discriminate With Essays?” by Steven McGuire. [The University of North Carolina, meanwhile, has eagerly embraced the Supreme Court’s decision.] 8-12-23
- Education. “A Reprieve for Charters in New York.” 8-12-23
- Education. “I’ll Pass on the Student-Loan Relief.” By Holly Wetzel. [My employer is suing to stop Biden’s lawless action, and I’m glad.] 8-15-23
- Education. “The Inequity of Public School. Funding.” 8-17-23
- Education. “Florida’s Education Triumph.” By Scott Yenor and Anna Miller. [The state has established new standards that emphasize traditional learning in schools.] 8-17-23
- Education. “California’s Weapons of Math Destruction.” By Faith Bottum. “The State’s new teaching framework tries to ‘combat inequities and pushes ‘social justice work.’] 8-19-23
- Education. “How the Student-Loan Payment Pause Hurt Borrowers.” By Allysia Finley. [Many used the long Trump-Biden moratorium to pile on credit-card mortgage and other debt.] 8-21-23
- Education. “Florida’s Catholic School Promise.” [Enrollment grows in the Sunshine State, thanks to school choice.] 8-23-23
- Education. “Socialism Sinks Venezuela’s Schools.” By Mary Anastasia O’Grady. [Raging inflation destroys the salaries of teachers, who have stopped showing up.] 8-28-23
- Education. ‘How Schools flout the Court.” By Wm. McGurn. [A Virginia high school uses race proxies to lower the number of Asian-Americans.] 8-29-23
- Education. “Biden’s Revisionist School History.” [“…Schools would have opened much sooner had Mr. Biden used his bully pulpit and leveraged federal money…”] 8-29-23
- Education. “The Pennsylvania School Stakes.” By Jeff Yass. [The furious resistance by unions to more education money for poor children is about political control.] 8-29-23
- Education. “Glenn Youngkin’s Good Pardon.” [Scott Smith was charged for loudly protesting an assault on his daughter.] 9-11-23
- Education. “It’s Still 2020 for the class of ’27.” By Leslie Bienen and Margery Smelkinson. [The pandemic is over, but administrators at some schools are slow to get the word.] 9-12-23
- Education. “Indoctrination Has No Place in Education.” By Wm. Galston. [The way to make good democratic citizens is to teach students to think for themselves.] 9-13-23
- Education. “West Virginia Budget Cuts Are a Taste of Higher Ed’s Future.” By James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley. [Gordon Gee is only slightly ahead of this time. A baby bust will mean far fewer students in coming years.] 9-15-23
- Education. “Jimmy Buffett Didn’t Need a Music Degree.” By Shad White. [Mississippi taxpayers shouldn’t subsidize useless majors.] 9-19-23
- Education. “The Price of Flourishing.” (Bookshelf by Jennifer A. Frey.) “The Liberating Arts.” Edited by Jeffrey Bilbro et.al. [Does it make more sense to pursue liberal learning in one’s leisure tie rather than bother with an expensive four-year degree?] 9-19-23
- Education. “KIPP Gets Children Into College.” [More evidence that charter schools lift student performance.] 9-23-23
- Education. “School Choice the Easy Way.” By Coey DeAngelis. [Texas lawmakers can pass a bill during the special session – or face the voters later.] 9-25-23
- Education. “The Children Win in North Carolina.” [“…North Carolina on Friday became the tenth state to approve universal school choice…”] 9-25-23
- Education. “Florida Takes the Classic Learning Test.” [“Florida state university system will now accept the Classic Learning Test in college admissions…”] 9-25-23
- Education. “How Ibram X. Kendi Broke Boston University.” By David Decosimo. [The entire institution committed itself to his ideology. It hasn’t backed off despite the scandal.] 9-29-23
- Education. “A Glimmer of Hope in Higher Education.” By Susan J. Crawford and Kenneth G. Langone. [A new organization that champions free speech is thriving.] 10-4-23
- Education. “Texas at the School-Choice Crossroads.” [Gov. Greg Abbott is putting his political capital behind ESAs.] 10-9-23
- Education. “Ben Sasse’s Letter to Jewish Gators.” [A model of moral clarity, compared with the mush from the Ivy League.] 10-13-23
- Education. “Don’t Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students.” By Steven Daviidoff Solomon. [Would your clients want an attorney who condones hatred and monstrous crimes?} 10-16-23
- Education. “Hamas War Shows Us What American Universities Stand For.” By Jason L. Riley. [Some students celebrate and many presidents equivocate. No wonder trust in higher ed is down.] 10-18-23
- Education. “School Choice Is Coming to Louisiana.” By Cory DeAngelis. [Once a pioneer, the state is about to catch up under Jeff Landry, its new governor.] 10-19-23
- Education. “There’s More to Education Than Free Speech.” By Larry P. Arnn. [FIRE slaps Hillsdale with a ‘warning’ for insisting on civility in academic debate.] 10-20-23
- Education. “How Campus Politicization Fed Today’s Hated.” By Danielle Shapiro and Yonah Berenson. [Enforcing orthodoxy and suppressing speech and thought taught students to be cowardly and foolish.] 10-24-23
- Education. “Weaponizing Student Loan Forgiveness.” [Team Biden punishes the plaintiff that won at the Supreme Court.] 10-31-23
- Education. “A Warning to Law Schools.” [“The recent outbreak of open anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses has been shocking, and it speaks to the anti-Western indoctrination that has been cultivated for decades at American universities…”] 11-3-23
- Education. “Why Stanford’s Leaders Tolerate Anti-Semitism. By Allysia Finley. [Recall how Marc Tessler-Lavigne was ousted as president after bucking leftist orthodoxies.] 11-6-23
- Education. “Biden Regulators Fine a Christian College.” 11-7-23
- Education. “Jewish Students Meet Hostility at Yale.” By Sahar Tartak and Netanel Crispe. [A university-backed event promotes denial and justifications of Hamas’s atrocities.] 11-8-23
- Education. “Campus Anti-Semitism in 1970.” By Jonathan Kellerman. [An encounter with fringe lunatics then gave a foretaste of today’s bitter hatred.] 11-9-23
- Education. “Illinois’s Invest in Kids’ Hall of Shame.” [Democrats in Congress want to kill scholarships for low-income kids.] 11-9-23
- Education. “New College Is a Haven For Harvard Refugees.” By Richard Corcoran. [We protect free speech, don’t make excuses for violence, and abolished our DEI bureaucracy.] 11-9-23
- Education. “School Choice Dies in Illinois.” [The union machine kills scholarships for 9,600 children.] 11-13-23
- Education. “America’s Universities Need Serious Regulation.: by Arthur Levitt. [If you want real change in large organization, focus on governance and personal accountability..] 11-13-23
- Education. “America Needs Real School Choice.” By Roland Fryer. [Half-measures have failed to foster the competition that would improve education in the U.S.] 11-14-23
- Education. “Hamas’s Barbarity Heightens the Crisis in Higher Education.” By Michael R. Bloomberg. [Jewish students bear the brunt of college’s culture of intolerance, conformity and ‘safe spaces.’] 11-18-23
- Education. “My School Doesn’t Tolerate Anti-Semitism.” By James s Robbins. [And we are happy to work with donors who are tired of giving to colleges that do.] 11-21-23 (Mr. Robbins is dean of academics at the Institute of World Politics.)
- Education. “Inside Ohio State’s DEI Factory.” By John Sailer. [I obtained 800 pages of ‘Diversity Faculty Recruitment Reports.’ Here’s what I found.] 11-21-23
- Education. “Harvard’s Hamas Confusion.” By Wm. McGurn. [An elite college degree is the fastest way to disabuse a student of the idea of truth.] 11-28-23
- Education. “Osama bin Laden, Big Man on Campus.” By Christopher Nadon. [His 2002 ‘Letter to America’ is consistent with what students have been taught.] 12-1-23
- Education. “Teachers Unions Spend Big on GOP State lawmakers.” By John Tillman. [Southern states lag in establishing school-choice programs, and that’s probably no coincidence.] 12-1-23
- Education. “Title IX and the Assault on Hillsdale College.” By Tunku Varadarajan. [The school gets no federal money, but a lawsuit seeks to rope it in because it’s a tax-exempt nonprofit.] 12-2-23
- Education. “Higher Ed Has Become a Threat to America.” By John Ellis. [Our corrupt, radical universities feed every scourge from censorship and crime to antisemitism.] 12-5-23
- Education. “From which River to Which Sea?” by Ron E. Hassner. [College students don’t know, yet they agree with the slogan.] 12-6-23
- Education. “Texas and the Politics of School Choice.” 12-8-23
- Education. “Harvard Bans ‘Cisheterosexism’ but Shrugs at Antisemitism.” [College presidents are directly responsible for the hatred that has flourished on campus since Oct. 7.] 12-8-23
- Education. “The Ivy League Mask Falls.” [antisemitism is one example of a much deeper rot on campus.] 12-11-23
- Education. “Higher Education’s Slide From ‘Veritas’ to ‘My Truth.’” By Gerard Baker. [On free speech, university leaders suddenly sound like Voltaire. But they’ve long operated like Lenin.] 12-11-23
- Education. “America Gets a Harvard Education.” [Claudine Gay survives thanks to the school’s double standard.] 12-13-23
- Education. “Liz Magill Is Out at Penn. It’s a Start.” By Clifford S. Asness. [Elite universities have longstanding problem with free speech – and with telling right from wrong.] 12-13-23
- Education. “University Presidents Flunk Out.” By Daniel Henninger. [What six-syllable word describes the testimony of Claudine Gay and Liz Magill?] 12-14-23
- Education. “A Legal Strategy Against Campus Antisemitism.” By Gil Mandelzis. [Under Title VI, Jewish students can hold schools accountable for creating a hostile environment.] 12-15-23
- Education. “An Antisemitic Occupation of Harvard’s Widener Library.” By Dan Sullivan. [Claudine Gay promised to prevent ‘disruptions of the classroom experience.’ How’s that working out?] 12-16-23
- Education. “What Universities Have Done to Themselves.: by Peggy Noonan. [They ‘have gone from being centers of excellence to institutions pushing political agendas.’] 12-16-23
- Education. “Claudine Gay and My Scholarship.” By Carol M. Swain. [She failed to credit me for sections of my book, ‘Black Faces, Black Interests.’”] 12-18-23
- Education. “Harvard Is Big Business at Its Worst.” By Allysia Finley. [With large, tax-insulated endowments, Ivy League schools act like companies without market pressure.] 12-18-23
- Education. “The Equality of Failure in Chicago.” [The city’s school board wants to cancel selective enrollment schools.] 12-19-23
- Education. “The Young Woke Will Outgrow It.” By Michael Segal. [‘Intersectionality’ has thrived on campus, but it won’t survive now that it’s being exposed to sunlight.] 12-19-23
- Education. “Hope for School Choice in Pennsylvania.” 12-20-23
- Education. “Why Harvard Can’t Fire Claudine Gay.” By Jason Riley. [To admit she has performed poorly is to raise basic questions about the entire ‘diversity’ enterprise.] 12-20-23
- Education. “Why Is the Press Attacking Home Schoolers?” by Matthew Hennessey. [The pandemic sold many parents on the practice, and the teachers unions decided enough is enough.] 12-21-23
- Education. “A Haven From the Ivy League’s Madness.” By Greg Weimer. [Catholic schools like Assumption offer the education Jewish tradition prizes.] 12-22-23
- Education. “Congress’s Financial Aid Fiasco.” [The revised student aid form means middle-class parents pay more.] 12-22-23
- Education. “Harvard Should Pay Its Fair Share.” By Richard Vedder. 12-23-23
- Education. “Charter Schools Gained, Union Schools Lose.” [Enrollment is up 9% in four years, as Hispanics in particular sign up.] 12-26-23Education. “2023’s Silver Linings.” By Daniel Henninger. [This year deserves to be swept into the dustbin of history. With two exceptions.] 12-28-23
- Education. “Claudine Gay and Why Academic Honesty Matters.” By James Hankins. [Politization and lower standards jeopardize Harvard’s standings as a great research institution.] 12-28-23
- Education. “A Teachers Union Showdown in Florida.” [United Teachers of Dade falls short of its required members in Miami-Dade.] 12-29-23
- Education. “President Gay Falls at Harvard.” [Her resignation offers a chance for an education reset.] 1-3-24
- Education. “Claudine Gay and America’s Institutions.” [Her defense reveals why elite educators have lost so much public respect.] 1-5-24
- Education. “Alan Sokal’s Joke Is on Us as Postmodernism comes to Science.” By Lawrence Krauss. [Articles in hard-science journals increasingly read like the 1996 hoax, and dissenters are suppressed.] 1-6-24
- Education. “The Education of Bill Ackman.” By Tunku Varadarajan. [He earned a B.A. and an M.B.A. at Harvard. They didn’t prepare him for what he learned Oct. 8.] 1-8-24
- Education. “Claudine Gay and the Cheating Crisis on Campus.” By Allysia Finley. [Academic dishonesty and crime are alike: No one will prosecute them if justice is hard to come by.] 1-8-24
- Education. “Gay’s Ouster May Prove a Pyrrhic Victory.” By James Spencer. [Changing the culture needs a measured, persistent approach.] 1-9-24
- Education. “Genocide in My Classroom.” By Timothy William Waters. [Incitement is a crime, but I teach my students that there’s a clear distinction between ideas and violence.] 1-9-24
- Education. “Who’s Holding Up the Ivory Tower?” by Harvey C. Mansfield. [Liberals want academia to reflect society, while conservatives know it has to rise above society.] 1-12-24
- Education. “Georgia’s School-Choice Mulligan.” [Gov. Kemp is making an ESA bill that failed last year a 2024 priority.] 1-13-24
- Education. “The Harvard of the Unwoke.” (The Weekend Interview with Ben Sasse by James Taranto.) [The University of Florida president has a theory of how higher ed succumbed to execrable ideas – and thoughts on reforming it.] 1-20-24
- Education. “J.B. Pritzker vs. Catholic Schools.” 1-20-24
- Education. “Harvard’s ‘Apartheid’ Prof Is on the Case.” [Guess who the university picked to investigate antisemitism on campus?] 1-24-24
- Education. “No Task Force Can Save Harvard.” By Dominic Green. [What hope is there for an institution where nobody can be fired for promoting stupid and wicked ideas?] 1-26-24
- Education. “Follow the Left’s Example to Reform Higher Ed.” By Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey. [Identify areas, like civics, that are inadequately studied and create new programs around them.] 1-27-24
- Education. LTE. “The Core Problem on Campus.” “You can add all the majors and courses you want (“Follow the Left’s Example to Reform Higher Ed: by Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey, op-ed, Jan. 27) but if they are taught by faculty who are hired, tenured and promoted by left-wing faculty, it won’t make any difference.” Charles D. Foust.
- Education. “Dartmouth Sees the Value of the SAT.” 2-6-24
- Education. “Legacy Admissions May Not Be at Odds With Diversity. [Selective colleges have a lot of minority alumni after half a century of affirmative action.] 2-7-24
- Education. “A Maine Lobster Town Sees Its Future in Shop Class.” By Sierra Dawn McClain. [St. George broke away from the regional district so its kids could learn skilled trades in school.] 2-17-24
- Education. “How Dartmouth Keeps is Cool.” By Emma Osman. [Its president has a commitment to free speech and dialogue.] 2-20-24
- Education. “History, From Ukraine to Utah.” By Peter W. Wood. [A new state law may equip students to resist lies like the ones Vladimir Putin has been purveying.] 2-23-24
- Education. “The Supreme Court ‘Didn’t Stop Me.’” [Biden ignores the law again as he forgives more student debt.] 2-24-24
- Education. “The Problems on Campus.” (Bookshelf by Leslie Lenkowsky.) “Attacking the Elites” by Derek Bok; City of Intellect” by Nicholas B. Dirks. [Amid today’s uncertainty and agitation, two former college leaders reflect on the state of higher education in America.] 2-28-24
- Education. “Berkeley Lets Loose an Antisemitic Mob.” [Rioters attack Jewish students, and leaders claim to be helpless.] 2-29-24
- Education. “Rural Republicans Shouldn’t Frear School Choice.” By Tom Newell. [No one wants to weaken local schools, but giving families options improves the whole system.] 3-2-24
- Education. “The School Choice Showdown in Texas.” [Gov. Greg Abbott goes all-in to defeat GOP holdouts in primaries.] 3-2-24
- Education. “A Bias Response Team Evades Justice.” [“…For now, at least, overbroad college bias teams at schools not named Virginia Tech can go about their creepy business.] 3-6-24
- Education. “School Choice for All in Alabama.” 3-11-24
- Education. “Rural Republicans Embrace School Choice.” By Corey DeAngelis. [Advances in Wyoming and Alabama show a turning of the tide.] 3-12-24
- Education. “The SAT’s Comeback Is Good News for Minority Students.” By Jason L. Riley. [Standardized tests have proved especially good at predicting performance of black college applicants.] 3-13-24
- Education. “Ban DEI Quackery in Medical Schools.” By Greg Murphy and Stanley Goldfarb. [A new bill would deny money to institutions that engage in the worst practices.] 3-19-24
- Education. “Harlem Lessons in Elementary Education.” 3-22-24
- Education. “Student Aid March Madness.” [Biden’s Fafsa rewrite keeps getting worse, if that’s possible.] 3-25-24
- Education. “Biden’s Free Lunch for Rich Kids.” By Sam Adolphsen and Paige Terryberry. [The USDA prepares to feed more schoolchildren year-round, even if their parents make six figures.] 3-27-24
- Education. “Roosevelt Elementary Delenda Est.” by Molly Macek. [A Michigan district would rather bulldoze a school building to the ground than see it house a charter.] 3-30-24
- Education. “Free Speech Is Alive and Well at Vanderbilt University.” By Daniel Diermeier. [Students are free to engage in protests and required to follow the rules and respect civil discourse.] 4-3-24
- Education. “Trump Is Best for School Choice, Even if I Won’t Donate to Him.” By Jeff Yass. [Obama was open to education alternatives, but Biden is the worst president ever for choice.] 4-9-24
- Education. “Biden’s Student Loan Howlers. [It takes a White House economist to come up with these beauties.] 4-10-24
- Education. “A Campaign Against School Choice Prompts Criminal Charges.” By Corey DeAngelis and Dean McGee. [Texas school-district officials are charged with unlawfully using public funds for electioneering.] 4-13-24
- Education. “Dartmouth Will Oppose Its Basketball Team Union.” By Sian L. Bellock. [Our athletes are students first. Paying them in play would undermine our academic mission.] 4-13-24
- Education. “Why I’m Leaving Clark University.” By Mary Jane Rein. [As a Jew and a scholar, I have received a warmer welcome at Assumption, a Catholic institution.] 4-15-24
- Education. “The Big Bank Elizabeth Warren Loves.” By Allysia Finley. 4-15-24 [“…Never has there been a bigger tax-payer scam than the federal student-loan program…”] 4-15-24
- Education. “Progressives and the Protesters.” [Columbia finally calls in the cops against the anti-Israel disrupters.] 4-20-24
- Education. “Columbia Fails to Protect Its Jewish Community.“ by Michael Oren. [A toothless task force and other measures haven’t stopped antisemitism from flourishing on campus.] 4-20-24
- Education. “Protests Turn Violent at Yale.” By Gabriel Diamond. [Administrators sit on their hands as a Jewish student is poked in the eye with a flagpole and hospitalized.] 4-22-24
- Education. “If You Give A College Student a Cookie…” by Allysia Finley. [The children’s book series helps explain the dangers of indulging unreasonable requests around the world.] 4-22-24
- Education. “Defining Free Speech Down on Campus.” [Progressives invoke a First Amendment they don’t understand.] 4-24-24
- Education. “Antisemitism At Columbia University Is a Disgrace.” By Andrew M. Cuomo. [Imagine if in the wake of 9/11, pro-al-Qaeda protesters chased New Yorkers out of the city.] 4-26-24
- Education. “Richard Cordray Has No Regrets.” [The federal student aid chief leaves after an historic run of failure.] 4-29-24
- Education. “At Columbia, Israel Backers Are Outside Looking In.” by Emma Osman [An ignorant mob occupies the campus. On the street nearby, a diverse crowd stands for humanity.] 4-29-24
- Education. “On Columbia University and Coach Handbags.” By Allysia Finlay. [A degree’s value, in both money and status, depends on the reputation of the institution’s brand.] 4-29-24
- Education. “Columbia Elects an Israeli Student.” By Wm. McGurn. [Maya Platck calls for dialogue at a school overrun by an angry and defiant mob.] 4-30-24
- Education. “The Stakes at Columbia.” [Democrats can see the protests may harm their election prospects.] 4-30-24
- Education. “A Tale of Three Universities.” [“A governance divide is emerging on college campuses…”] 5-1-24
- Education. “Harvard’s Protesters Aren’t as Obstinate as You Might Expect.” By Michael Segal. [I spoke with 10 of them for an hour. They weren’t confrontational and they were intellectually timid.] 5-1-24
- Education. “Cookie-Cutter Campus Protests.” By Daniel Henninger. [Columbia’s encampment invaded Hamilton Hall this week via Instagram.] 5-2-24
- Education. “The ‘Outside Agitators’ on Campus.” 5-2-24
- Education. “Rules for Campus Radicals, 2024.” [A website reveals the planning and strategy behind the current college mayhem.] 5-3-24
- Education. “Illinois’s Plan to Fund Public Universities on the Basis of Race.” By Neetu Arnold. [Schools with abysmal graduation rates would get more money simply for enrolling minorities.] 5-4-24
- Education. “What I Saw at Columbia’s Demonstration.” By Peggy Noonan. [The protesters wear masks, avoid eye contact, and seem uninterested in engagement or progress.] 5-4-24
- Education. “The Adults Are Still in Charge at the University of Florida.” By Ben Sasse. [Higher education isn’t daycare. Here are the rules we follow on free speech and public protests.] 5-4-24
- Education. “Free Palestine! Free Pizza!” by Wm. McGurn. [If the protesters have lost ‘Saturday Night Live,’ they’ve lost Middle America.] 5-7-24
- Education. “The Post-Covid Truancy Epidemic.” By Wm. A. Galston. [Schools closed, then reopened, but many students still don’t attend regularly.] 5-8-24
- Education. “Why I Ended the University of Chicago Protest Encampment.” By Paul Anivisatos. [Students demanded that we side against Israel, violating the core principle of institutional neutrality.] 5-8-24
- Education. “Why I won’t Hire Law Clerks from Columbia.” By Matthew Solomson. [The reputational costs from our boycott ought to provoke some soul-searching at the school.] 5-9-24
- Education. “The Columbia Protest Could Go to Court.” [The custodians mobbed at Hamilton Hall might get a union lawsuit.] 5-10-24
- Education. “Anti-Israel Protest and the ‘Signaling’ Problem.” By Roland Fryer. [The economic theory that explains the powerlessness and confusion of university administrators.] 5-10-24
- Education. “Campus Protesters, Unmasked.” [Anti-KKK laws are relevant against today’s antisemites.] 5-13-24
- Education. “Save Higher Ed With the Chicago Principles.” By Wm. A. Galston. [Respect free speech and don’t take sides – a simple approach to avoid campus strife.] 5-15-24
- Education. “A School Choice Revival in Pennsylvania.” “The state Senate tees up legislation to provide scholarships.] 5-15-24
- Education. “Brown v. Board of Education: Right Result, Wrong Reason.” By Jason L. Riley. [Segregation is wrong, but black students don’t need to share a classroom with white ones to learn.] 5-15-24
- Education. “Shall I Compare New Jersey’s Curriculum to a Summer’s Day?] by Pau H. Tice. [What does Shakespeare have to do with climate change? Ask the state’s first lady, Tammy Murphy.] 5-18-24
- Education. “What It’s Like Being Jewish at Harvard.” [An alumni report on antisemitism includes startling testimony.] 5-20-24
- Education. “Biden urns Title IX Into a Weapon Agans Women and Girls.” By Kristen Waggoner. [Biology matters in sports and intimate spaces, even if it is irrelevant to employment decisions.] 5-20-24
- Education. “Biden to Graduates: Americas Hates You.” 5-21-24
- Education. “Higher Ed Has a Progressive Disease. Can It Be Reversed?” by Gerard Baker. [The prognosis seems grim, but I found signs of life as a proud father at Notre Dame’s commencement.] 5-21-24
- Education. “The School-Choice Runoffs in Texas.” [Gov. Abbott needs to turn a few more seats to beat the teacher’s union.] 5-22-24
- Education. “Biden’s Demoralizing Speech to Morehouse Grads.” By Jason L. Riley. [In his 2013 commencement address, Obama stressed opportunity. His successor emphasizes victimization. ] 5-22-24
- Education. “New Honors Will Foster Free Speech.” By Jon Engler and Jeffrey O. Nelson. [To counter the chaos on campuses, we need fresh thinking on how to stand up for ordered liberty.] 5-23-24
- Education. “Civil Rights and Antisemitism at Columbia.” (The weekend interview with David Schizer by Agigail Shrier.) [A hostile environment for Jews could mean a cutoff of federal funding and liability under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.] 5-25-24
- Education. “Teach Your Children to Love America.” By Peggy Noonan. [For Memorial Day, I’m taking inspiration from the New York schools’’ 1900 ‘Manual of Patriotism.’] 5-25-24
- Education. “The College-Parent Trap.” By Daniel Hennin ger. [Universities won’t pay kids to be engineers, but a lawsuit means they will pay athletes.] 5-30-24
- Education. “A Victory for Children in Texas.” [Greg Abbott wins his political bet to build a school-choice majority in the Legislature.] 5-30-24
- Education. “The Long View of Higher Ed’s Decline.” (The Weekend Interview with Harvey Mansfield by Tunku Varadarajan.) [He arrived at Harvard in 1949. By the time hi retired last year, he was practically the last conservative standing.] 6-1-24
- Education. “Al Qaeda and Iran Salute the U.S. Campus. 6-1-24
- Education. “The Martyr of Harvard’s Encampment.” By Charlie Covit. 6-3-24
- Education. “The Academic Proletariat Goes on Strike.” 6-7-24
- Education. “An Alabama School Runs on Faith, Family and Fatherhood.” By Nicole Ault. [Valiant Cross Academy is like a stable household, something many of its students have never known.] 6-8-24
- Education. “Harvard Goes Only Halfway Toward Institutional Neutrality.” By Daniel Diermeier. [It won’t make public statements, but reserves the right to do so with its investment decisions.] 6-13-24
- Education. “Why I Skipped College to Be an HVAC Tech.” by Cole Kelley. [I’m thinking about a mortgage rather than student loans.] 6-17-24
- Education. “Vouchers From Milton Friedman to Jay-.” 6-18-24
- Education. “Biden Loses Again on Student Debt.” [Two Obama-appointed judges say the SAVE plan is likely illegal.] 6-26-24
- Education. “Another Loan Forgiveness Gift.” [Biden expands write-offs for more of his favored voters.] 6-27-24
- Culture War. “Even Time at Harvard Hasn’t Led Me to Give Up on America.” By David Wolpe. [Antisemitism has always been with us, but this country is still the second-greatest haven for Jews.] 7-3-24
- Education. “Who’s Afraid of a Catholic Charter School?” by Jason L. Riley. [A wrongheaded ruling from Oklahoma is an invitation for review by the U.S. Supreme Court.] 7-3-24
- Education. “Can A Federal Court Stop Antisemitism at Columbia?” by Michael Gross. [I joined a lawsuit against my school because campus leaders have allowed a hostile climate for Jews.] 7-12-24
- Education. “Josh Shapiro Blinks on Vouchers Again.” [the Pennsylvania governor’s actions don’t match his rhetoric.] 7-15-24
- Education. “Will Jewish Students Be Safe This Fall?” by Jason L. Riley. [Harvard impanels t\wo task forces and drops suspensions for unlawful conduct.] 7-17-24
- Education. “Massachusetts Puts Failure on the Ballot.” 8-7-24
- Education. “Obama’s Alma Mater Sacks Its Only Free-Market Professor.” By Mark Skousen. [Occidental College didn’t renew Daron Djerdjian’s contract, and colleagues suspect ideological bias.] 8-13-24
- Education. “Liberal Thought Returns to Campus.” [UNC opens its new school to teach students how to disagree well.] 8-14-24
- Education. “The Lawless SAVE Plan Goes Down.” [The Eighth Circuit blocks Biden’s latest forgiveness scheme.] 8-14-24
- Education. “Biden Rewrites Title IX to Impose a Tyranny of Feeling.” By Nicole Auit. [Courts have enjoined the new rules, which would allow males into female spaces and athletic teams.] 8-20-24
- Education. “Kentucky’s School Choice Referendum.” [Amendment 2 would open the door for vouchers and charter.] 8-23-24
- Education. “Another Student Loan Boondoggle.” By Michael Brickman. [Under the Biden-Harris SAVE plan, taxpayers would cover groceries and rent as well as school.] 8-24-24
- Education. “AAUP Throws In With Campus Antisemites.” By Michael B. Poliakoff and Steven McGuire. [The group reverses its 2006 position against academy boycotts.] 8-26-24
- Education. “The Legally Dubious Campaign Against Kentucky School Choice.” By Corey DeAngelis and Dean McGee. [Officials seem to violate a state law that bars using tax money to campaign against a ballot measure.] 8-27-24
- Education. “Art Subsidies and U.S. Higher Ed.” By Reuven Brenner. [The Dutch ended up with warehouses full of pieces nobody wanted. We have piles of worthless degrees. ] 8-30-24
- Education. “The Roots of STEM Excellence.” By Charles Murray. Finding and developing one of our rarest and most precious human resources is a paramount goal.] 8-31-24
- Education. “Can Campuses Get a Grip on Antisemitism?” by Wm. A. Galston. [If they don’t, expect a collapse of authority like what I saw as a student in the 1960s.] 9-4-24
- Education. “Biden and Harris Work to Crush School Competition.” By Jason L. Riley. [He’s more opposed to charter schools than any previous president, and she’d likely be as bad.] 9-4-24
- Education. “Scholarly Associations Aren’t Entitled to Their Opinions.” By Daniel Diermeier. [By taking stands on issues, academic groups can chill debate and harm young faculty members’ careers.] 9-7-24
- Education. “The Subprime Student Debt Bubble.” 9-14-24
- Education. “No More Pencils, No More Books in Arizona.” By Matt Beienburg. [The attorney general targets school choice and ends up hitting school supplies.] 9-24-24
- Education. “Congress Can Protect Jews on Campus.” By Marco Rubio and Paul Clement. [A new bill would clarify the Civil Rights Act’s bar against antisemitism and toughen the penalties.] 9-24-24
- Education. “Some Elite Colleges Dodge the Racial- Preferences Ruling.” By Jason L. Riley. [At Duke, Princeton and Yale, Asian enrollment went down after last year’s Supreme Court decision.] 9-25-24
- Education. “Protect Kids from Social Media.” By Suzanne S. Youngkin. [Smartphones have ‘rewired’ childhood. Viginia is doing something about it.] 9-26-24
- Education. “How Yale Plans to Commemorate the Ot. 7 Massacre.” By Netanel Crispe and Sahar Tatak. [The University expects Jews to attend a vigil with students who celebrated ‘the resistance’s success.’] 9-26-24
- Education. “A High-School Teacher Boycotts ‘Zionists.’” By Emma Osman. [Greenwich Academy, my alma mater, prides itself on openness.] 9-27-24
- Education. “Chicago’s Nasty Schools Showdown.” 9-28-24
- Education. “Harvard’s Antisemitism Begins in the Classroom.” By Dara Horn. [The university ignored a suggestion to review its courses and lectures for academic rigor.] 9-28-24
- Education. “What Happened to Free Speech?” by Andy Kessler. [In 1964, Berkeley leftists supported it. Now they want to censor everything.] 9-30-24
- Education. “Soviet Antisemitism at California’s Claremont Colleges.” By Lenny Fukshansky. [Today’s ‘anti-Zionism’ is hard to differentiate from the communist slogans I heard in my youth.] 10-3-24
- Education. “Med-School Accreditation Is Outdated.” B Rpbert I. Grossman and Steven B. Abramson. [The LCME established with noble goals, has become arbitrary and holds back innovation.] 10-4-24
- Education. “UNC Tries to Create a ‘Free- Speech Culture.’.” (The Weekend Interview with Jed Atkins by Barton Swaim.” [the head of a new civics school at the Chapel Hill campus wants to teach students to be tolerant, in an old-school way.] 10-5-24
- Education. “The Chicago School Board Coup.” [The entire board resigns amid a fight over teacher’s union raises.] 10-7-24
- Education. “Campus Protesters Hijack Academic Freedom.” By Greg Weiner. [John Witherspoon knew campuses were meant for the pursuit of truth, not political activism.] 10-12-24
- Education. “Brown Says No to Divestment From Israel.” By Jillian Lederman. [But the university sends mixed signals on its institutional neutrality policy.] 10-24-24
- Education. “My First Censorship Experience.” By Bernard Henri Levy. [A trade publication rejects an ad for my book about Isael. I’m responding with a U.S. campus tour.] 10+-28-24
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