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Will higher education ever recover from the coronavirus pandemic? Initial indications are dicey at best. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center published data that showed enrollment rates at colleges and universities are not improving due to the pandemic and overall uncertainty. U.S. News noted that enrollment has declined since fall 2020 and there is little […]

A local “Moms for Liberty” chapter is stirring up anti-Critical Race Theory sentiment in Franklin, Tennessee, which group is composed of concerned mothers who want the Williamson County Schools to remove Critical Race Theory from its curriculum. Reuters profiled Robin Steenman, a white Air Force veteran and mother of three children, who is leading the […]

With northern Virginia schools in turmoil over Critical Race Theory, one conservative county chose to shut the door on Critical Race Theory. The Free Lance Star reported that Stafford County’s board of supervisors voted by a 6-0 vote to keep Critical Race Theory and its offshoot 1619 Project out of the Stafford County Schools system. […]

The Biden administration launched an investigation of the Texas ban on mask mandates in public schools, which will be handled by the state’s Department of Education. The investigation will focus on the Texas Education Agency, which handles education matters in the Lone Star State. As the Dallas Morning News reported, the federal investigation adds to […]

The oft-used rallying cry of the Left is to abolish institutions or systems to allegedly level the playing field between social and economic classes and groups, such as racial minorities or the poor. The Left’s latest victory is suspending graduation testing requirements in Oregon. Senate Bill 744, passed along partisan lines by a Democratic supermajority […]

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has the ire of the liberal mainstream media, entrenched teachers’ unions and education bureaucrats as his national profile rose during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, DeSantis is fending off challenges to his gubernatorial authority when it comes to mask mandates in K-12 classrooms. Under his direction, the state’s education department announced that […]

Virginia school boards are pushing back against the Virginia Department of Education regarding transgenderism in schools, setting the stage for an intense standoff between local and state officials. Last year, Virginia’s DOE adopted the controversial “Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools” as part of its effort to […]

Last week, President Joe Biden nominated Catherine Lhamon to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights within the Department of Education. Lhamon held the same position under the Obama Administration during which she launched a full-scale attack against due process protections afforded to college students accused of sexual assault. In 2011, the DOE issued […]

Left-wing U.S. civics education is gaining some momentum, according to a report from the Washington, D.C metropolitan area. NBC Washington reported that teachers working in the area endorsed the idea of implementing a new U.S. civics curriculum in public schools. A seventh-grade history teacher, Jessica Park, told the local news outlet that history should no […]

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. As the 2016 Internal Holocaust Remembrance Association’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism continues to be adopted by organizations and universities who find it […]

A year following the violent social justice-fueled riots, the Left is unleashing another power grab in the ideological battleground in schools: changing American civics and social studies curriculum to include anti-American ideological indoctrination. The Educating for American Democracy (EAD) initiative is a blatant attempt by the Left to distort America’s founding and past, similar to […]

Last November, North Thurston Public Schools, located east of Olympia, Washington, made headlines when their yearly “equity report” removed Asian students from the “person of color” category. Instead, they were lumped in with whites in a dishonest attempt to emphasize the “persistent opportunity gaps” experienced by minority populations. After intense pushback, the district removed the […]