These are not the greatest times for university faculty and nonacademic staff. Falling enrollments have squeezed budgets at many schools, leading to small or even non-existent salary increases during a period of enhanced inflation. The salary surveys of the American…
Woody Allen famously said, “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” If he’s right, that’s bad news for some 30 percent of public school students who, according to a recent study conducted by Stanford professor Thomas Dee, were chronically absent…
The disastrous teaching model of Zoom school is being revived in the post-COVID era — with a twist. Rural or poor school districts struggling to attract talent are hiring teachers to appear virtually in front of a physical classroom of…
For most Americans, “Mom” evokes images of kindness, courage, sympathy and love. Likewise, “liberty” calls up concepts like individual rights, freedom of expression, equality and justice. Yet, the perversity of the current political environment is such that a parental rights…
It didn’t seem possible that school could get more ridiculous than me as a fourth grader hiding under my desk with a three-inch-thick textbook on my head to protect my noggin from a tornado or nuclear fallout. Yet here we…
In a recent opinion piece published in USA Today, Randi Weingarten delivered the following cri de cœur: “MAGA Republicans are destroying our public schools. Teachers and parents must fight back.” Weingarten is, of course, the president of the American Federation…
Most states provide at least some support for parents who choose to send their child to a private school, such as tax credits, education savings accounts, or vouchers. Historically, this has not been a partisan issue. Among the states that…
There’s a war brewing in education — and it’s not just on parents. It’s on the teachers themselves — and the same unions claiming to protect them are waging it. It starts with control — as the unions are preventing…
It is hardly breaking news that many once-trustworthy science and medical publications have been infected by leftist ideology. One of the worst cases involved the Lancet, which published an editorial in May of 2020 that openly urged American voters to…
So, educating students about the dangers of communism is racist? Who knew? Virginia Republicans recently introduced House Bill 1816 which would have declared November 7 — the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution — Victims of Communism Day. The bill…