At The American Conservative, Thomas Barlow outlines the damage being done to America’s knowledge base by the culture war on the nation’s college campuses. While competing nations’ students are learning logic and math, American students are being distracted by political battles. Can America’s colleges ever recover from the culture wars they’ve been fighting since the […]
Where Have all the Conservative Professors Gone?
During my time at Babson, political messaging and identity were less prominent among professors. But after the group of student demonstrators who rocked campuses in the 60s decided to become professors and never leave, the cohort of professors has gotten steadily more liberal. Sam Goldman, writing at The American Conservative says this leftward shift makes […]
NYC and the Tragedy of Tenure
Wonder why tens of thousands of parents in NYC have placed their children on waiting lists for charter schools? Charter schools are free to hire and fire teachers on individual teacher merits, not by union diktat. The United Federation of Teachers, which wholly owns Mayor Bill de Blasio, protects teachers who are in the Absent Teacher […]
No Surprise that State-Run Schools Advocate Bigger Government
It’s no big surprise when teachers at public schools espouse ideas that focus on expansion of the state. They are part of the government after all. Maria Biery, writing at The American Conservative examines the issue of liberal indoctrination during school. In my own experience, during my years at a public high school, I had […]
Success Comes to NYC Schools
Despite progressive NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s best efforts to stop the spread of charter schools, the school year is ending on another high note for NYC’s Success Academy Charter Schools, Jason L. Riley informs readers in the WSJ. Here’s why the waiting list for Success continues to swell with more than 17,000 applications for […]
White People Told to Leave Campus
Evergreen State, a small public liberal-arts college in Olympia, WA, traditionally hosts a yearly Day of Absence in which “students and faculty of color organized a day on which they met off campus—a symbolic act based on the Douglas Turner Ward play in which all the black residents of a Southern town fail to show […]
This is the One Course Your Kids Should Take This Summer
At Hillsdale College there is one course all students must take in order to graduate, no matter which major they’re enrolled in: Constitution 101. Now Hillsdale is offering the class to the public for free. I suggest this call to all readers’ kids and grand kids for this summer. Hillsdale is a top notch conservative school […]
Vital to Young Black Men–the Ablative Absolute and #BlackDegreesMatter
With only 8% of young black men having graduated from Philly’s public high schools going on to get a four-year college degree, the first place that does not pop to mind in thinking of the success rate in American cities of high-school graduates, especially black graduates, is Philadelphia. But in an iffy part of West […]
School Inc. Shows a Better Way to Teach
PBS is in the midst of airing a three-part documentary, much to the displeasure of Diane Ravitch, a strong proponent of public school education. Ms. Ravitch claims that PBS’s airing of School Inc. “must be public television’s effort to curry favor with the Trump administration … It is ironic and sad that public television would lend […]
The Most Undeserved Gov’t Support is “For the Children”
It’s easy for politicians to lard up budgets with poorly managed programs as long as they explain that the money is “for the children.” Dan Mitchell does a fantastic job explaining why, despite throwing a massive amount of money at children’s education, the government ends up with terrible results. Dan writes: I haven’t written about […]
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