Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has squared off against The College Board, which is an organization that designs Advanced Placement (AP) courses in high schools across the country, over an AP course on black American history….
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Higher education reform is possible, scholars say
Higher education is in dire need of reform, at least in the eyes of conservatives. Two conservative scholars penned a joint opinion editorial that outlined potential proposals for state lawmakers. Manhattan Institute scholars Ilya Shapiro…
President’s Day rolls on despite revisionist criticism
The annual federal holiday known as President’s Day is a time to honor the birthday of George Washington, the U.S.’s first president and a key Founding Father. But these days, honoring past presidents and key…
UNC faculty shocked over trustee vote creating an ideology-less civics school
A battle has emerged, pitting the faculty against the Board of Trustees (BOT) at the University of North Carolina (UNC) after the trustees voted unanimously to accelerate the creation of a new school – the…
New York teachers’ union conducts ‘teach-in’ protest over wages
Editor’s Note: We have updated the article to reflect that teachers held the protest at school locations, but only during lunch hour and after-school hours. The original article said that teachers held the protest during…
Striking workers at University of California have to repay wages
Several weeks after ending their months-long strike, graduate student workers at the University of California received shocking news: they will have to repay their wages to the university. Although the University of California said it…
Teachers’ union promotes Black Lives Matter propaganda
The Black Lives Matter movement has been exposed as a political, radical movement that has created unsafe living conditions in many urban areas, raised crime rates, discouraged police officers from doing their job, and promoted…
Strike threatened by Rutgers University faculty, staff over ‘housing justice’
It appears that demanding radical, left-wing concessions is en vogue when it comes to labor strikes in higher education. Last fall, University of California graduate workers went on strike and demanded a slew of concessions…
Florida teachers’ unions prevent teacher pay raise
Multiple school districts in Florida are at an impasse with the Florida Education Association (FEA) teachers’ union when it comes to distributing pay raises to teachers, which pay raises will come from a sum of…
Wall Street Journal praises Iowa Gov. Reynolds over school choice
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, has made school choice a centerpiece of her administration and garnered high praise from a leading center-right news outlet. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board praised the two-term governor…