Policymakers have long thought the solution to the achievement gap to be in early childhood education.
Articles By: larryscholer_48
Whose History?
A recent lecture at Bowdoin College has roiled the Maine campus. On February 22 the Bowdoin College Republicans hosted Vernon Robinson, a North Carolina conservative activist and former candidate for the House of Representatives.
No School Like Home
As the successes of homeschoolers continue to mount, so do their numbers. There are currently one to two million homeschoolers in the U.S.
Collective Bargaining Conspiracy
The pro-union Graduate Employees and Students Organization’s report, titled “The (Un)Changing Face of the Ivy League,” purports to expose discrimination in the hiring mechanisms of Ivy League schools.
All-Day Kinder(care)garten
Calls for more intensive early childhood education programs often accompany studies revealing that American students lag behind their international peers.
Desperate Classrooms
The higher education establishment now shares the mores of popular culture—as seen in Desperate Housewives and Sex in the City and reality shows like Who Wants to Marry My Dad? —and has turned them from bawdy entertainment to theory, according to a new report from the Independent Women’s Forum.
Mental Health Meltdown
A California community college professor recently made headlines when a student alleged that the professor encouraged him to seek counseling due to a patriotic term paper. Legislators and health advocates fear a new presidential initiative may make similar scenarios commonplace in public schools across the country.
Off-Campus Crusaders
Students fighting campus liberals do have allies, but most are not on their campuses.
Campus Culture Warriors
While stories of illiberal professors and higher education hijinks are becoming more visible in the national media, conservative students want to do more than expose them.
Bias: Professoriat in Denial
Professors who support Democratic causes dominate college and university classrooms. Recent studies have shown that Democrats outnumber Republicans on college faculties by, at least, an 8-to-1 margin.