The University of Notre Dame, which has struggled over how to voice support for gay marriage and transgenderism without outright betraying its Catholicism or enraging the local bishop, took a major step closer to explicit support on Thursday. (READ MORE:…
In 1983, having spent four years earning a PhD in English, I instantly turned down the reasonably secure entry-level faculty position my alma mater offered me and chose instead to sign up for that most financially insecure of all professions:…
Affirmative action in higher education is set to face the judgment of the Supreme Court. The moment is quietly exhilarating. This is an injustice that has been hoisted upon so many, for so long, and with the patronage of so…
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…
Russia’s ill-fated invasion of Ukraine has now become a political and economic calamity for the Kremlin. Having developed over decades a climate of servitude to the will of controlled oligarchs and autocrats, Russia has now lost any grip it may…
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”…
A book is a stack of sheets of paper bound together with glue or stitching. If it contains lines of writing, we call it a book. If it is blank, it is either a notebook or the world-renowned bestseller Joe…
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…
The school choice crowd in the Republican Party has long been a collection of do-gooder activists and well-heeled donors who are crusading to better the lives of urban unfortunates. All of their efforts have been made with the hope that…
