Penny Nance, president and CEO of Concerned Women for America, recently attended Virginia Tech’s freshman orientation with her son, who will be attending the university this year. While there, she encountered a wave of leftist propaganda laced into the orientation program. She describes the event at The Federalist, calling it “downright alarming.” She writes (abridged): […]
Smartphones Are Ruining College, and Maybe Life Everywhere
At The Federalist, Professor Laura Baxter explains eight ways in which smartphones and other connected technological devices are hurting students at college. Many of the ways these devices are hurting college students apply to all people. Baxter’s eight ways are: Screens Endanger Student Safety Screens Jeopardize Learning Screens Sabotage Social Life Screens Stunt Career Growth […]
California State-Decreed High School Political Indoctrination?
At The American Conservative, Gilbert T. Sewall explains how a proposed new California ethnic studies program takes an anti-Israel stance, and “openly abandons teaching and learning in favor of political indoctrination.” He writes (abridged): Last week, the Hoover Institution’s Williamson Evers admirably aired in the Wall Street Journal a disturbing Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum proposed by the California Department of Education […]
America’s Colleges Dominated by Diversity Focused Leftists
Originally posted April 30, 2019. Nathanael Blake, a senior contributor at The Federalist, explains to readers there that higher education is owned by the political left. The system has been bogged down by administrative costs, forcing students to pay ever-higher tuition rates, and setting most of them up for punishing debt-service when (if) they finally […]
MY Top Educational Picks: State or Community College
At National Review, Charles C.W. Cooke explains the hard numbers that put into perspective what college is, and isn’t worth. For instance, an electrician is likely to earn more than a college graduate who works in English literature. The median income of an American farmer is $43,945, which is higher than the median income of […]
California’s Far Left “Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum”.
In The Wall Street Journal, Williamson M. Evers explains the frightening new proposal for an “Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum” in California. He writes (abridged): California’s Education Department has issued an “Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum”. The legislatively mandated guide is a resource for teachers who want to instruct their students in the field of “ethnic studies,” […]
Colleges Shut Down History Departments
At The Federalist, Jonathan Pidluzny explains the sad fact that some American universities are abandoning their history programs. At the same time, Americans are showing a critical deficit in their knowledge of the country’s history. A retreat from the field of academic history will only further the national ignorance. Pidluzny writes (abridged): Jefferson understood that […]
“A Plumber Can Easily Make $100,000 a Year.”
At The American Conservative, Michael Warren Davis encourages Americans to “learn a trade,” noting that a plumber can easily make $100,000 a year. He notes the labor deficit in the trades, but also the negative stigma attached to manual labor. He writes (abridged): Corporations need to stop mandating that applicants have useless degrees in subjects […]
Have You Heard of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute?
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, where the motto is “think. live free.” is attempting to fill “the void left by modern higher education.” The institute teaches students the principles of liberty and builds a community allowing them to “get the collegiate experience they hunger for,” where viewpoints aren’t shut out, and rigorous discussion isn’t shut down. […]
Stop Feeding the Leftist Monopoly on Art
At The Federalist, David Marcus explains the Left’s stranglehold on most art in America. He proposes that the applying the free market model to all art, as it is currently applied to stand up comedy, would create greater product diversity. He writes (abridged): It’s no big secret that arts organizations in the United States skew […]
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