A student at Howard University, Jalen Brown, thought that his online discussion with another university student was innocuous, but intellectually honest and non-threatening. But Howard University, located in Washington, D.C., disagreed and kicked him out…
Monthly Archives For January 2021
California elementary school forces children to deconstruct racial identities
Asian-American parents experienced woke and left-wing indoctrination in America’s schools in Cupertino, California, a wealthy Silicon Valley community in northern California. At R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School, a third-grade teacher began a math class with a…
QAnon’s shady origins expose problems with social media
In October 2017, 4chan user, “Q Clearance Patriot,” claiming to have insider knowledge of the Trump administration and other high-profile politicians, made his first post on the shady internet forum. Titled “The Calm Before the…
The Common Sense Approach to Reopening Elementary Schools
Covid-19 has taken the world by storm. Death toll and Covid-19 case numbers flash on TV screens as people around the world worry about what the future may hold. As millions of Americans continue to…
School officials stand by teacher after LGBTQ, racial equality survey controversy
In Smithfield, North Carolina, school district officials are defending their decision of sending a LGBTQ rights and racial equality survey to schoolchildren, without prior approval or permission from parents. The main contentions from the parents…
School districts condemn U.S. Capitol mob violence
After mob violence engulfed the U.S. Capitol, public school districts across the country issued scathing condemnations of the violence while ignoring their priority: focusing on educating students during a pandemic. Across the country, public school…
Cancel Culture puts pressure on Pro-Trump University of Michigan Regent to resign
Cancel culture is coming for conservatives far and wide, and the controversy in Michigan is no different. Left-wing and anti-GOP activists demanded that a regent should resign over his ties to the Republican Party and…
The Call for Apolitical Public Education
Although America’s political parties are as divided as ever, it would be expected that the education of our country’s youth would be spared from the conflict. However, the year 2020, composed of brimming racial tensions,…
America’s Schools: The Left’s Head Start in the Ideological Battle for the Youth
While public schools are expected to remain neutral in political matters, teachers unions have become a powerful political force. Those in control of state education systems have illustrated their desire to implement a progressive agenda…
Terror U: Who is Suppressing Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities?
Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. In January of…