With a title like “Supporting Undocumented Youth,” it does sound like sensitivity training-meets-illegal immigration.
Topic: Department of Education
American Academia’s War on Due Process
We are still, for the most part, a nation of laws, except on college campuses. At the Heritage Foundation recently, Samantha Harris, director of policy research at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE),…
Obama’s College Scorecard Ignores Conservative, Christian Colleges
Hillsdale and Grove City were not on the scorecard put out by Obama’s Department of Education.
Common Core Disses Bilingual Education
The bad reviews of Common Core keep pouring in, and not just from the right of center. “Among bilingual educators there has been much debate about the Common Core State Standards (CCSS),” Jeff Bale writes…
Obama’s Feared College Rating Website Opens With… No College Ratings
Obama barked a lot about college ratings, fairness and stuch, but his bark is far worse than his bite.
Increasingly Uncommon Common Core
As more states learn what Common Core involves, fewer of them want anything to do with it. “The number of states participating in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Common…
Education Wonk Changes His Mind on Arne Duncan
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Michael Petrilli recently wrote an apologetic op-ed for Fordham’s e-mail newsletter entitled “The new ESEA will be ‘loose-loose’ because Arne Duncan went overboard with ‘tight-tight’.” A champion for Common Core,…
Title IX Administrators say to Give Accusers an Advocate, Maybe Help the Accused
Sounds one-sided to me. Give rape accusers an advocate in cases on campus, and possibly give the accused students some help if you want: The Association of Title IX Administrators has a new “position statement”…
Updated Dept of Ed Financial Watch List of Troubled Colleges
Let’s hope that your alma mater or colleges that your friends, coworkers or their children are going to are not on this list.
GOP Senator says College would be Cheaper if Less Regulated
Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican, did have a point: Vanderbilt University spent almost $11,000 per student in compliance costs with Department of Education regulations.