When the president of William and Mary removed a cross from the altar of the chapel, everone noticed, including the state legislature that helps to pay his salary.
Monthly Archives For February 2007
Central Michigan Flag Burning
Last week two protestors at Central Michigan University burned an American flag just outside a forum which featured the Lithuanian ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Is Higher Education Emerging?
Although the recent “Emerging Issues” conference at North Carolina State University missed the boat on the big issues, there were a few bright spots that education leaders ought to know about.
The Utah Choice
On February 12th, the state of Utah cemented its place in the annals of history when Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. signed the first-ever universal school choice bill into law.
Title IX High
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate last Wednesday that would require high schools to report the number of male and female students participating in high school athletics and the money spent on each team.
Immortal Reagan Bests Campus Radicals Again
Maybe one of the reasons our fortieth president gets such short shrift in textbooks is because he had the academic left’s number, as we used to say.
Battle of New Orleans
In New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina we can see what it takes to dislodge an entrenched educational bureaucracy and its companion teachers union from power—a natural disaster.
Embryonic Bias at MIT
Did MIT let a distinguished black scientist go because of his opposition to embryonic stem cell research?
Negligent Nanny State
The state government of California fails the foster children it assumes responsibility for by, among other things, forcing them through California’s public schools.
Choices Crack Educational Establishment
In the past eight days, legislative bodies in three states have passed choice legislation.