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Too little, too late for the National School Board Association (NBSA), which used inflammatory language to describe concerned parents at school board meetings. The group apologized for its letter to the Biden administration and said that there was “no justification” for the language used in the letter. The NSBA issued a statement after significant public […]

Seeming to give credence to Orwell’s wry observation that “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” the fatuous members of the Virginia Tech Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) passed a “Resolution to Divest in Compliance with the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions Movement,” tendentiously pronouncing their solidarity “with the […]

Criticism of local school boards has intensified in the past year during school shutdowns along with opposition to mask mandates policies due to the coronavirus pandemic, incurring the ire of the Biden administration. The Department of Justice (DOJ), under Attorney General Merrick Garland, said it will combat threats “of violence” against school board members across […]

Despite growing evidence of Critical Race Theory’s inherent biases and flawed academic foundations, several Connecticut teachers and a local reporter defended it as a legitimate theoretical framework. An English department chair at Guilford High School, George Cooksey, blamed political polarization for the controversy. “What we ought to be talking about is what we are actually […]

Videos of Afghans climbing walls and standing on active airport runways in the capital city of Kabul have fueled the ongoing debate about the Biden administration’s rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan. There have been unconfirmed reports of several Afghans dying amid the chaos, women and children beaten in the streets by Taliban fighters, beheading of Afghan […]

It appears that there is at least one college or university which is actively countering Critical Race Theory indoctrination at the K-12 level: Hillsdale College. President Larry Arnn said that the curriculum comes at a crucial time in America’s history. “This curriculum is a work of education,” he affirmed, “It seeks to teach the truth […]

The NCAA College World Series finished in Omaha, Nebraska, but it was not immune from the coronavirus pandemic hysteria gripping American higher education institutions. This time, pandemic testing led to the men’s baseball team from North Carolina State University (also known as “N.C. State”) losing out on a spot in the national title game due […]

Over the summer, the University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill announced its plan to offer Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the 1619 project, a tenured position in the Hussman School of Journalism as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Reporting. However, the Board of Trustees pushed the controversial decision to a vote, electing to hire […]

A northern Virginia school district survived its most recent public meeting after parents and protesters disrupted the meeting during the public comment period. Loudoun County’s school board cut off public comment during its meeting on transgender policies on restrooms, privacy, and use of preferred pronouns. After weeks of protests and public opposition to the school […]

In the days following the Atlanta spa shooting, the media latched on to the narrative that the shooter was motivated by racism leading him to take the lives of 8 victims, six of whom were Asian women. However, no evidence has been found to support this claim. In fact, authorities in Georgia found that Robert […]

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. When the prescient George Orwell observed that “There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language” […]

While the pandemic greatly disrupted campus activities in 2020, the student governments of at least three universities managed to focus their efforts to pass BDS resolutions, bills that asked their respective universities to divest from holdings of companies doing business with Israel. At the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, that school’s resolution “called on the […]