From School Reform News: Results of 2016 state testing data indicate 44 percent of New York 3rd graders were proficient in math, yet only 24 percent of 8th graders reached proficiency. The contrast is especially…
Monthly Archives For January 2017
Most Millennials Favor School Choice
From School Reform News: The authors of the EdChoice “2016 Schooling in America” report included an expanded sampling of millennials, those born between 1981 and 1997, “in an effort to better understand where this generation of…
More Schools are Reducing or Eliminating Homework
From School Reform News: The Orchard School, an elementary school in South Burlington, Vermont, eliminated homework during the 2016–17 school year because “the principal there said he’s seen more anxiety among students in the last…
Hidden in Plain Sight: Genuine Scholarship at the MLA
In the days before Wayne Gretzky brought elegance to hockey, a running joke about the sport was, “I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.” Something like this might be said of…
Humboldt State University Offers Free Massages to Show Anti-Trump Inauguration Solidarity
If only it were that easy to get free massages in real life, let alone at a college to show solidarity to oppose an inauguration of a President of the United States.
Pro-Life Group Sued Colorado State for Denying Student Funds over Politics
From Campus Reform: The lawsuit, filed by attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), alleges that university officials refused to provide funds from mandatory student activity fees for an SFL event featuring a speaker who…
Women’s Marchers, Unite!
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at the American Spectator. “The most important task,” said communist dictator Kim Il Sung in October 1971, in his address to the Democratic Women’s Union of North Korea, “is…
Cal-Berkeley Course to Dissect Donald Trump’s Alleged Xenophobia and Other Accusations
From Campus Reform: This semester, the University of California, Berkeley is offering an entire class devoted to dissecting the “cognitive dysfunctions,” “xenophobia,” and “fascism” of Donald Trump. During the spring semester, students who take Interdisciplinary…
Women’s March on Washington Participants Say Feminists Can’t be Pro-Life
From Campus Reform: Campus Reform attended the March to find out why protesters were attending, as well as to ask their thoughts on the compatibility of pro-life ideologies with feminism. After speaking with over 50 participants,…
In Trump’s Inauguration Day Speech, He Blasted Higher Education
From The College Fix: In his inaugural address … President Donald Trump said the educational system was “flush with cash” and yet “leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge.”