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One of the fascinating things about journalism is looking at the factual data that both sides of a controversy agree on and finding that the facts support the critics’ viewpoints.

What do Diane Ravitch and the TEA party have in common?

The latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes a special supplement on “Diversity in Academe” that is only missing one thing.

The progress and advancement of MOOC’s show that higher education must adjust.

FRONT ROYAL, VA — Four years ago, Obama’s Chicago crew borrowed a page from the Three-Card-Monte hustlers in Manhattan’s Central Park.

One-third of the students who get financial aid come from families who make $100,000 or more a year.

America’s largest teacher’s union is finally showing signs of antiquity and may be on the verge of irrelevancy.

Our correspondent went to an education seminar and ran into yet another scandal involving the Obama Administration.

There is an interesting split on the Left over the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms.

“Republicans appear to be a scarce commodity among the attorneys who work at the Department of Education. So scarce, in fact, that there aren’t any.” —Nathanial Harden, Phi Beta Cons, NROnline.

In total, 45 states including the District of Columbia (which is notorious for its failing public school system) have adopted the Common Core standards.

At a time of record public deficits, personal bankruptcies and business failures at home, not to mention fatal U. S. embassy attacks abroad, only an academic could believe we are being well-governed.