If you spend any time on social media, you’ve probably seen plenty of fearmongering and hysteria about the changing educational landscape. But don’t let your Facebook friends or Instagram followers lead you astray. What’s happening in education is exciting —…
In 2023, the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program shocked the state with devastating statistics about Baltimore public schools. Thirteen high schools — about 40 percent of the entire district — showed zero students meeting state math proficiency standards. Additionally, only 7…
Education is the wealth of a generation. If you want quality education for tomorrow, you’ll have to accept upsetting today’s students. That’s what long-term thinking entails. The etymology of “college,” from the Latin collegium, refers to an “association” of people…
It’s been rumored for quite some time, and on Monday it popped all over X: Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce very soon that pharmaceutical advertising on television will be a thing of…
If an investment yields stagnant or negative returns despite increased funding, the rational thing to do is back off. This logic rarely applies in government, but we’re in a unique moment. The U.S. Department of Education — which has long…
WASHINGTON — Kudos to President Donald Trump’s administration for canceling $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University “due to the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.” “Since Oct. 7, Jewish students have…
DOGE has turned attention to the federal Department of Education (ED), cutting $101 million in DEI programs and terminating nearly $1 billion in contracts. While wasting taxpayer dollars, ED has been deployed in force against educational independence and parental choice. Consider,…
My ancestors were murdered in the Holocaust. My family suffered under the iron grip of the Soviet Union, stripped of their rights, silenced, and treated as second-class citizens because of their identity. They came to America with nothing — no…
