Since textbook publishers tailor every title for the California sales that they cannot live without, the latest effort by the Golden State to flavor historical knowledge with sensitivity training may go national.
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Unprotected Collegians
Dr. Miriam Grossman, psychiatrist at UCLA and author of Unprotected- A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student, talks about how school counseling has gone astray.
Academic Credibility Gap
The lack of confidence in the education establishment at the elementary, secondary and higher levels has spread well beyond the political conservatives normally associated with this attitude.
AAUP Speech Code
“Political Indoctrination and Harassment on Campus: Is there a problem?” was the title of the intense debate between Students for Academic Freedom (SAF) founder David Horowitz and American Association of University Professors President Cary Nelson at The Second Annual Academic Freedom Conference held this past weekend in Washington D.C.
ESOL For Illegal Aliens
Left overlooked in the debate over illegal immigration is the degree to which it makes an already dysfunctional public school system even more chaotic.
CAMPUS SMOKING BANS
The trend toward smoke-fee campuses is on a roll.
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL RESEGREGATES
What would you think of a high school meeting to discuss recent test scores that began by teachers saying: “What’s up, white people?”
Homeschoolers Are Underpaid Too
Homeschooling moms out perform public school teachers, yet receive no pay at all.
Admitting To Affirmative Action
Even those who support the use of racial and ethnic admission preferences cannot argue that such discrimination ought to take place in secret.
North Carolina Cabal?
The State Board of Education needs more diverse viewpoints, if North Carolina expects public schools to improve.
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Diversity Dictators on Campus
Apparently university administrators no longer read George Orwell because they don’t seem to recognize how Orwellian their policies are. “Speech codes are almost never identified as such by the many colleges and universities that impose…
The Media’s Vile Attacks on Conservative Assimilationists
Michelle Malkin’s take on the liberal media’s war on conservative immigrant leaders like Bobby Jindal.
Faculty Who Won’t Leave
Tenured faculty may make up an increasingly smaller proportion of the professoriate than in days gone by but they are hanging onto their jobs with both fists. “Tenured faculty age 50 or older can be…
Backer of University of Phoenix Shelled Out $5 Million to Retired Founder
The numbers don’t look good at all. A $5 million retirement bonus to the founder and former chairman of the Apollo Group, which owns the University of Phoenix.
Exempt from Contempt?
There aren’t many instances when the New York Times agrees with Christian conservatives — but the fallout over same-sex “marriage” is one. In yesterday’s edition, the paper gives legs to the growing fear that the…
Toledo Bans Football Coach from Leading Team in Prayer
This happened because of a video that surfaced on YouTube from 2012. Seriously.
Anti-Capitalist Professor at Columbia makes Students Buy His Textbook, but He Ignored it in Class
Sounds like someone made a profit by forcing the purchasing of a textbook unused throughout an entire semester! God bless the American free market system!
Clinton Foundation Took For-Profit Schools’ Money, but Hillary Criticized For-Profits
Sounds like double-talk or hypocrisy, doesn’t it? Criticize for-profit schools and then take their money?
Professors for Empty Prisons
Professors who rail against the imprisonment of blacks rarely show as much interest in black victims of crime. “In 1980, there were 500,000 Americans in prison or jail,” Jason Stanley writes in The Chronicle Review….
New Orleans Charter Schools a Model to Follow
It’s a really good piece on how New Orleans charter schools picked up the pieces after Hurricane Katrina to drastically improve the education environment in the city.