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What is the Biden administration’s answer to a national teacher shortage? More competitive pay for teachers, not lowering the barriers to become a teacher. As Politico reported, Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said that competitive salaries could incentivize people to become teachers. He said, “Unless we’re serious about providing competitive salaries for our educators, […]

The Black Lives Matter-fueled social justice and diversity mob came for major academic publisher Pearson, which acquiesced to their demands of reforming their publishing guidelines. Inside Higher Ed reported that the company, based in London, United Kingdom, is making an effort to “promote diversity and avoid propagating harmful stereotypes.” The new guidelines said that these […]

Christianity teaches us that we are all equal in the eyes of God. Apparently, college professors didn’t get the memo.

College publishers want a textbook distributor to stop the sale of counterfeit textbooks, which undercut their prices.

Brown University followed Princeton’s lead in removing a requirement for graduate school: GRE (or standardized test scores) from its graduate application processes for multiple departments.

A middle school teacher, understandably unnerved by student’s alternate admiration for, and previous unfamiliarity with the U. S. Constitution, posted an Education Post to vent.

From Campus Reform: The textbook, titled In Conflict and Order: Understanding Society, is required reading for a Principles of Sociology class (S161) at IPFW taught by Robert Pettit, which qualifies as a 3-credit general education requirement and is an introductory course for sociology majors. Not only does the book tell readers that teaching American exceptionalism […]

It turns out that Common Core’s creators might be demonstrating the same ethos Cuba Gooding’s character demonstrated in the film Jerry Maguire when he said, “Show me the money.” “An undercover journalist for a nonprofit organization captured candid video of a national textbook company’s sales executive making inflammatory remarks about federal Common Core standards and […]

Editor’s Note: The original post was published by the Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research. James O’Keefe’s undercover videos reveal what activists have been saying for years: Common Core is a set of standards written not for the benefit of students, but to enrich crony capitalists, such as mega-curriculum companies, Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt, Pearson, and National […]

Malkin’s great take on Jeb Bush and why he is so adamant to defend his Common Core stance (i.e. it’s about the money). She brought back what she wrote last year, and it still rings true: “Can you spell b-o-o-n-d-o-g-g-l-e? Remember: Bush’s educational foundation, the Foundation for Excellence in Education, is tied at the hip […]

It’s interesting that the people who are usually in a fruitless search for Republican fat cats have failed to notice the actual ones for whom Common Core math actually does add up. On September 20, 2013, Michelle Malkin reported that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s “educational foundation, the Foundation for Excellence in Education, is tied […]

At the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, several public charter school officials lauded the rising popularity of charter schools across the United States. Kenneth Campbell, president of Louisiana’s Black Alliance for Educational Options, Scott Pearson, executive director of the D.C. public charter school board, and Todd Ziebarth, senior vice president of state advocacy and support for […]