Until I saw the new documentary The Unmaking of a College: The Story of a Movement, I wasn’t aware of the record set at Hampshire College in 2019 for the longest college sit-in in American history. In fact I wasn’t…
As a boy, I had a small TV in my room. My parents didn’t need to worry about its dangerous media influences on me. The most violent thing I could watch was Batman punching out the Riddler’s henchmen, often with…
The Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) system hasn’t gotten the memo. Last week, the county doubled down on its policy of requiring students to wear masks nearly every moment in schools despite Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order giving parents the…
In 2009, Barack Obama appointed Kevin Jennings, an LGBTQ activist, to head up the Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. It was an outrageous choice. Jennings had written the foreword to a book called Queering Elementary Education….
Earlier this month, Mark Perna, a contributor to Forbes.com, published an article on the looming crisis in American education. Citing a recent study that revealed that 48 percent of teachers had considered quitting their jobs in November, he goes over…
As schools close down yet again in response to the most recent COVID surge, it’s time to have a serious talk about schools in America. This is not the time to dive into education statistics, or pen some screed against…
Back in October, after months of parent-led protests at school board meetings across the country, the National School Board Association (NSBA) sent a letter to the Biden Administration asking it to direct federal law enforcement officials to treat concerned parents…
Tuesday, 73 percent of Chicago teachers voted to compel their school district to ditch classroom instruction in favor of remote learning because of COVID-19. So, it’s official: Some urban public school districts are employment programs first and institutions of learning…
Last week, a friend phoned to tell me that her child would be unable to make a playdate with my 8-year-old scheduled for the following day. Her son had tested negative for COVID that evening, yet she planned to take…
