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Dan Kennedy, an assistant professor at the Northeastern University School of Journalism in Boston who writes for the British Guardian, has been caught spreading falsehoods about communist terrorist Bill Ayers.

“The cost of 2010 Census has escalated to an estimated $14 billion…making it the most expensive in the history of our country,” Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) at a recent hearing about the strategies for a cost-effective and accurate 2010 Census.

AIA executive director Mal Kline’s hairline leaves left-wing bloggers fractured.

One Boston educator is trying to teach inmates…but not anything useful like reading or writing.

In the summer of 2020, Google searches for police brutality and systematic racism skyrocketed. Captivated by the media attention devoted to the murder of George Floyd and other African Americans by police officers, the public was quickly convinced that America is a racist nation.  Politicians and other social activists saw the public attention as a […]

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 […]

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush will bring his legendary low energy to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), ostensibly to promote Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) but we wouldn’t be against him giving a shout out, or the Bush family equivalent of one, to Common Core.

Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution wondered why “children who participated in Tennessee’s statewide pre-K program had worse attitudes toward school and poorer work habits than children who didn’t.” Haskins co-authored a policy brief (entitled “Trouble in the Land of Early Childhood Education?”) with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, a professor at Columbia University, and they noted, “the […]

The Pioneer Institute, a Massachusetts-based think tank, released a new study, “The Revenge of K-12: How Common Core and the New SAT Lower College Standards in the U.S.” to help parents, teachers, and policymakers understand the problems with the Common Core State Standards. Authors Richard Phelps and Common Core Validation Committee member R. James Milgram […]

Education activists, including the community organizer in the White House, look at the ruin that public education has become and want to expand it.

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.

Last month a prestigious line-up of retired admirals and generals emphasized the importance of early childhood education to the America’s continued national security.