Mackenzie Fraiser may be a sixth grader, but she knows more about her constitutional rights than Somerset Academy. The Las Vegas school took a big gamble when it told a 12-year-old girl to drop God…
Topic: education
Gender Fluidity Making Its Way into School
So, no longer boys or girls but gender-fluid teaching in public schools, at least in Fairfax County schools in northern Virginia: “One of the nation’s largest public school systems is preparing to include gender identity…
School Choice Wins! Tennessee Signs Bill into Law
Attaboy Tennessee! School choice is now an option in the Volunteer State!
Lesson from Freddie Gray: It’s Not About the Money
Good take from Marc Tucker: “David Brooks wrote a column that ran in the New York Times on May 1 that got me thinking. In it, he points out that the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood that Freddie…
Christians Discriminated Against as Student Religious Liberty Bill Killed
As Campus Reform reported: “The California Assembly’s Higher Education Committee has rejected a bill that would have protected religious student groups from persecution at the state’s public universities.” “Assembly Bill 1212, which was introduced by…
Texas College Administrator says Too Little Investment in College
At the South by Southwest education conference in Austin, Texas recently, on a panel entitled “What’s Next for Access and Affirmative Action?” administrators such as Anne-Marie Nunez from the University of Texas (UT) system revealed…
Pre-K Progressive Push
On a panel promoting pre-Kindergarten programs at a conference recently in Austin, Texas, a pair of government officials–one local, one federal–made their case. Representing the City of New York, Richard Buery suggested that employing universal…
Creativity and Common Core
This SXSWedu session’s description sums up the matter: “What if job performance was measured by a year-end test aiming to boil all of our work down to a single score? As meaningless as that would…
UT-Austin Unrepentant on Affirmative Action
For higher education administrators, affirmative action remains a topic of concern. In Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that race can be a determining factor regarding student admission….
Students Wearing Chick-Fil-A Shirts Anger PC Crowd
The oddest part about this incident at a Pennsylvania high school was that the students themselves weren’t suspended for wearing the t-shirts. Instead, students who tweeted profane remarks about the students wearing the shirts were suspended…