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Last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom and state Democrats agreed on a $2 billion legislative package to incentivize schools to reopen in districts with a low number of coronavirus cases. The agreement allowed concerned parents to breathe a sigh of relief, since they were finally able to see a light at the end of the […]

While most people would consider topics such as science and math to be essential components of an elementary school education, the principal of East Side Community High in New York City believes students and their parents need to spend more time considering their “white identity.” Last week, Mark Federman, disseminated a “tool for action” asking […]

As 2020 comes to a close, there is a stark divide between the dogmatic liberal fanatics and common- sense conservatives regarding the global coronavirus pandemic. This year was a trying year, full of social media-fueled boycotts, public shaming or “cancel culture,” protests and counter-protests, and government-mandated economic shutdowns. Educators and academics did not shy away […]

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. The ubiquity of race obsession on campuses in the age of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd showed itself at Princeton University, too, […]

Since the unfortunate deaths of George Floyd and a number of other black individuals in interaction with law enforcement, campuses across the country have been roiled by paroxysms of self-righteous indignation over race, white police racism and purported attendant brutality, and the alleged existence of endemic racism in society and its major institutions—including, specifically, universities. […]

If any area of the United States can be identified as the epicenter of anti-Israelism on campus, California, the nation’s most populous state, can certainly be said to have earned that dubious distinction. In fact, observers of out of control anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic activity on campuses consider California’s universities to be the veritable ground zero […]

With the Department of Education firing an opening salvo against Princeton University, academics are scrambling to take Princeton’s side in the fracas. Princeton University’s president wrote a letter admitting that the institution treated its minority students and staff unfairly due to “systemic racism” at the institution and throughout America. The Department of Education responded to […]

For-profit colleges have enjoyed relative peace under the Trump administration, but a potential Biden presidency has sent them scrambling. According to Inside Higher Ed, for-profit colleges are fearful of the return of Obama-era regulations if the Biden-Harris ticket wins the 2020 presidential election. Steve Gunderson, CEO of Career Education Colleges and Universities, expressed his serious […]

As the LGBT movement continues its march through the institutions, it keeps making advances within the educational world—and those advances are not confined to the halls of higher education. A law approved by the governor earlier this year in the state of New Jersey will require public schools to incorporate information about the “contributions” of […]

Is American higher education going to pot? While the answer to that question would depend on who you ask, some recently introduced legislation actually pertains to college students convicted of possessing pot. On Friday Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced a bill that would give collegians convicted for marijuana possession the opportunity to remain qualified for […]

Is it fair for biological boys to compete athletically against biological girls? Of course not, but it’s happening. The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has filed a complaint with the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights on behalf of three Connecticut high school girls who have personally experienced the consequences of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic […]

In the midst of a crowded Democrat primary, presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a policy proposal this week calling for large-scale student debt cancellation and free college tuition at all public universities. Her plan prescribes $50,000 of debt cancellation for those with a household income of less than $100,000, with decreasing debt cancellation […]