Boston University, Tufts, Wellesley College, and Yale aren’t the four best schools in the United States — just the four most expensive ones. The private schools each charge in excess of $90,000 for the 2024–2025 school year, the Boston Globe…
The mind boggles, reels, and whirs at the speed with which the LGBTQ agenda has swept across America. We saw it flex its muscles in the rapidity with which same-sex marriage became legalized. But Obergefell v. Hodges was only the…
The idea that children are best raised in a household with a married mother and father marginalizes racial minorities and LGBTQ people and should be eradicated, says Bethany L. Letiecq, associate professor at George Mason University’s College of Education and…
The Kinsey Institute celebrates Indiana University’s decision to retain ties despite a 2023 state law barring tax dollars subsidizing the controversial group. The decision to keep the sex-research outfit as part of the university seems to rely on accounting gimmicks…
Gen Z teenagers are stressed out by the thought of taking a 3-hour standardized test with a No. 2 pencil and a “dumb” calculator. So the College Board, which issues the SAT, has decided to coddle them. (READ MORE from Ellie…
For years, liberals have scoffed at the idea that standardized testing is the best predictor of academic success. The National Education Association, for instance, claims standardized tests are “both inequitable and ineffective at gauging what students know.” Activists’ campaign against…
The sale of marijuana for nonmedical purposes is illegal in Virginia, not to mention at the federal level. But that hasn’t stopped Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, from developing an entire major and minor totally dedicated to training students to…
Elite colleges are engaged in a balancing act: They are trying to maintain their reputation for having the best students while also giving an admissions advantage to their preferred races. In recent years, the desire for racial diversity has trumped…
The recent lamentable travails afflicting American academia — falling public support, suppression of free expression, declining integrity of research as evidenced by seemingly widespread plagiarism — mask a longer-term but I think serious problem: American colleges and universities are disseminating…
