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…
A 12-year-old student was allegedly sent home from Nichols Middle School for wearing a shirt that read: “There are only two genders.” That’s right. His shirt featured a statement of what was a well-known fact for thousands of years of…
Friday morning, the House of Representatives passed the Parents Bill of Rights Act (H.R.5), a measure that would guarantee parents a meaningful voice in their children’s education. In a sane political environment, this would not have been a controversial bill….
Have you heard that there’s a “national teacher shortage” in our public schools across the country? Well, apparently it’s a real thing. We know this because CBS News tells us so: The Department of Education reports a general shortage of teachers in…
An epidemic is ravaging college campuses and it’s not COVID. But in the long run, it may prove more deadly to the academic enterprise because it fuels uncritical thinking and leaves damaged reputations in its wake. The variants to worry…
It was a blisteringly cold day in College Station, Texas and I wrapped my long jacket I thought I would only wear once tightly around myself as I stepped out of the orchestra hall. I was greeted by four men…
The United States is in the midst of an educational crisis. Test scores are plummeting, education spending is unsustainable, and the vast majority of American students are ill-prepared to thrive in the high-tech workplace of the future. Given this sorry…