After a nearly three-year hiatus from adjudicating a religious liberty case, the Supreme Court is poised to rule on three such cases this spring. Two of the three cases, scheduled to be heard later in April, respectively deal with whether…
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 —…
The stock market panicked at the end of January on news that the Chinese start-up DeepSeek had made an artificial intelligence model that is more efficient than anything American companies have produced thus far. In response, former presidential candidate Vivek…
In 2007, Minnesota’s Saint Agnes School, located in central St. Paul, was on the verge of default. With rapidly declining enrollment, an institution which for more than a century had been considered a cornerstone of Catholic primary and secondary education,…
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) will not go gently into the night. The DEI apparatchiks within private corporations are untouched by Trump’s executive orders — and because the corrosive ideology is cloaked by so many misleading terms, the U.S. government…
The U.S. Department of Education remains a hydra-headed monster after the passage of more than 45 years since its creation in October 1979 and grand opening on May 4, 1980. Not including one-time funding of more than $70 billion for…
Like the distant call of a horn announcing the arrival of the cavalry, news broke this week of Trump’s executive order investigating DEI in higher education. It’s a welcome announcement, and I greet it as gladly as any other fair-minded…
If there was one federal agency that I could dispose of, what would it be? Without ado: The Department of Education (DOE) as evidence for its abolition is overwhelming. The 2024 “Nation’s Report Card” — the National Assessment of Educational…
While stacking its leadership with jihadists and threatening minorities, the new regime in Syria is also seeking to radically revise its educational curriculum for children aged 6 to 18. While some of the reforms to de-Ba’athify are welcome, others are…
