Add North Dakota to the rapidly growing list of states banning Critical Race Theory teachings in public schools. Republican Gov. Doug Burgum signed the bill into law on November 12, which bill passed in the…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Shutting Down Pro-Israel Speech at Duke
As if further evidence were needed for the hypocrisy about who may say what about whom on college campuses, the recent action by the Duke Student Government to withhold recognition to a new pro-Israel student…
Editorializing for Hamas
When Elmer Davis, director of FDR’s Office of War Information, observed that “. . . you cannot do much with people who are convinced that they are the sole authorized custodians of Truth and that…
Indiana parents demand answers over sex education curriculum
Indiana parents, due to their experiences monitoring their children during virtual and remote classes during the coronavirus pandemic, are demanding accountability and transparency when it comes to their school districts and sex education curriculum. Fox…
Blame Biden? Supply chain problems affect Florida school cafeterias
The ongoing inflation and supply chain woes have extended from families and businesses to school districts: Tampa, Florida-area school districts are seeing a supply shortage due to major backlogs at U.S. port facilities. Local news…
Why Academic Departments Should Steer Clear of Activism Against Israel
The obsessive loathing of Israel by large swathes of academia was evident last spring as Hamas showered southern Israeli town with some 4000 rockets and mortars. These woke, virtue-signaling moral narcissists, however, instead of denouncing…
Rollout of government worker loan forgiveness is non-existent
The past ten months of the Biden presidency begs the following question: Does everything that the Biden administration touch end up in a disaster? The question comes at a time when the Biden Department of…
Ohio State Board of Education replaces members over Critical Race Theory
The fallout at school boards have reverberated to the top of the education bureaucracy in Ohio, when two board members at the Ohio State Board of Education resigned over disagreements on an “anti-racism” resolution. Board…
Pandemic continues trend of declining college enrollment
Will higher education ever recover from the coronavirus pandemic? Initial indications are dicey at best. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center published data that showed enrollment rates at colleges and universities are not improving due…
Five states withdraw from school boards group after inflammatory letter
A school board organization, which had rarely been heard of on a national scale, has made public enemies of parents and multiple states. The National School Board Association (NSBA) is now the focus of the…