“Hopefully I don’t get fired for this,” a South Carolina teacher allegedly told her students as she prepared to show them two short videos on critical race theory (CRT) this spring. Mary Wood has not been fired, but the Lexington-Richland…
The following remarks were delivered by the Honorable Betsy DeVos, former secretary of education, upon reception of a 2023 Bradley Prize at the Bradley Foundation’s 19th Annual Bradley Prizes ceremony on May 16 in Washington, D.C. Reprinted with permission from…
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…
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….
A soul-crushing weakness has crept into Western education in the past two decades that has increased student anxiety and depression and decimated basic skills. Five years ago, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff called this crisis “The Coddling of the American…
Earlier this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis set off alarm bells in academia by requesting an accounting of expenditures related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory (CRT) in Florida’s public universities. For years, Republicans have been asleep…
On Sept. 30, the U.S. government’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a statement lauding the year’s decrease in health and dental insurance premiums. The HHS bizarrely named its favored and disfavored political parties in the statement, but…
On Aug. 12, the Wall Street Journal reported on “quiet quitting,” an approach to work brought to the forefront of public attention after the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps counterintuitively, quiet quitting doesn’t refer to employees’ resigning from their jobs but to…
Woke liberalism is drenched in hypocritical sanctimony. It condemns past evils while perpetuating present ones. Progressives responsible for a shameless culture of abortion and other grave evils are in no position to judge admired historical figures such as America’s Founding…
