I watched Dead Poets Society again after many years. As I like to live dangerously, I put it on for a group of children between the ages of 10 and 13. Too soon, you might say. Maybe, but kids at…
Another year, another election cycle. Already Republican candidates and pundits are testing carefully calibrated messages about education. A recent National Affairs article by scholar Robert Pondiscio, for example, sounds the following themes: Yes to school choice, but also yes to…
Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos authored an article — provocatively titled “Shut Down the Department of Education” — for the summer print issue of The American Spectator. In that article, DeVos paints a picture of bureaucratic bloat, bemoaning the…
Imagine a government program that existed to achieve one goal — a laudable goal. But after spending more than $1 trillion in taxpayer dollars — that’s trillion, with twelve zeros — in pursuit of that goal, not only had the…
The biblical command to “Go … and teach all nations” provided the inspiration for the creation of Georgetown University, the first Catholic college in the country. John Carroll, the Jesuit archbishop who founded the college in 1789, chose a site…
Our institutions of higher learning are in freefall. The dominance of progressive political orientations among faculty members and administrators is well known, and the consequences of this intellectual monoculture are equally obvious. I need not recount the innumerable instances of…
“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…
Advocacy groups are threatening litigation after an Oklahoma school board approved the initial application for the nation’s first public religious charter school. On Monday, the Oklahoma Virtual Charter School Board announced that it approved St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual…
A video about Pride Month and gender identity was shown to elementary students at public schools in Granbury, Connecticut, without parental consent. The story gained attention after parents spoke out against the district at a Board of Education meeting on…
