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When President Obama unveiled the U. S. Department of Education’s new college scorecard, he indicated it would be inclusive, reviewing every school. Well, they missed three—Christendom, Hillsdale and Grove City College. Officials at the Department of Education informed Hillsdale’s administrators that they didn’t make the list because the college did not confer enough 4-year degrees, […]

In one Chicago school, girls are getting a lesson in anatomy their parents never bargained for. In the latest chapter of madness at the Department of Education, the federal government is ordering Township High School to allow an adolescent boy full access of the girls’ locker room because he “feels” female. And by “full access,” […]

This is getting out of hand, isn’t it? The U.S. Department of Education has ordered suburban Chicago’s Township High School District 211 to permit a transgender woman (born male) “full use” of the girls’ locker room … or lose out on federal funding. The ACLU brought the complaint on behalf of the student in 2013. The district’s […]

We are still, for the most part, a nation of laws, except on college campuses. At the Heritage Foundation recently, Samantha Harris, director of policy research at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), said that “students have complained about the lack of due process” at colleges. “In the last five years, thanks to […]

It may not work terribly well but Common Core sure is expensive. “The treatment of textbooks as mountains of words is one of the signature elements of Common Core,” Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) pointed out at the National Press Club on Monday. During the past half-decade, the 26 states aligned […]

Hillsdale and Grove City were not on the scorecard put out by Obama’s Department of Education.

But does he mean it, or is it just lip service? If he really cared, he could push the Department of Education to ensure actual diversity of opinion is represented on college campuses.

College Fix with the latest: Yale University continues to shine a light on its peculiar handling of sexual-misconduct allegations, releasing its eighth semi-annual report on the subject earlier this month. The so-called Spangler report was created as part of the school’s Title IX settlement with the Department of Education and named afterStephanie Spangler, the deputy […]

Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican, did have a point: Vanderbilt University spent almost $11,000 per student in compliance costs with Department of Education regulations.

Obama’s Department of Education dismissed the complaint against Harvard, which alleges that Harvard discriminates against Asian American applicants in the application process and favors minority candidates with less-impressive applications.

More and more, it seems that Title IX is being abused by the Department of Education and universities in light of the sexual assaults controversy.

We are truly in an age where who you know is more important than what you know. “The feminist scholars are academically weak but politically well-connected,” Christina Hoff Sommers, who maintains the Factual Feminist blog, said on June 4, 2015 at a “summit” meeting arranged by the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF).  “A bunch fled to […]