In 1983, having spent four years earning a PhD in English, I instantly turned down the reasonably secure entry-level faculty position my alma mater offered me and chose instead to sign up for that most financially insecure of all professions:…

Affirmative action in higher education is set to face the judgment of the Supreme Court. The moment is quietly exhilarating. This is an injustice that has been hoisted upon so many, for so long, and with the patronage of so…

Oberlin College and Conservatory students are in total freakout mode over the damage that the $36 million lawsuit by Gibson’s Bakery has caused to the college. They are claiming that the school’s desperate efforts to fend off further lawsuits —…

The chancellor of New York City Schools, David C. Banks, announced a dramatic overhaul of the city’s reading curricula on Tuesday. He admitted that the current system, which is based on progressive ideas of “whole language” instruction, is “fundamentally flawed”…

Oklahoma is currently considering whether to approve the nation’s first charter school that would “teach religion as the truth of the matter.” On Dec. 1, 2022, former state Attorney General John M. O’Connor issued an opinion declaring that Oklahoma’s ban…

When Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was enacted, it provided that “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to…

Throughout the past several weeks, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona has been making the rounds speaking in defense of public education. However, Cardona isn’t really focused on education so much as on the potential political gains available — especially in…

My apologies to Oscar Hammerstein, whose song “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from his great 1945 musical Carousel with Richard Rodgers not only is one of the great triumphs of the American musical theater but later became the anthem for an…

There’s a war brewing in education — and it’s not just on parents. It’s on the teachers themselves — and the same unions claiming to protect them are waging it. It starts with control — as the unions are preventing…