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Education Gone Wild
Education Gone Wild
by | May 29, 2023

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:…

by | May 28, 2023

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…

by | May 10, 2023

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 —…

by | May 9, 2023

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”…

by | May 8, 2023

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…

by | May 5, 2023

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…

by | May 1, 2023

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…

by | Apr 30, 2023

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…

by and | Apr 16, 2023

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…

by | Mar 22, 2023

SOUTH BEND, IN — The University of Notre Dame hosted a pro-abortion event on Monday titled “Trans Care + Abortion Care: Intersections and Questions.” Less than 24 hours after the event, the local Catholic bishop weighed in.  Kevin Rhoades, bishop…

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