Education

Inside An Elite University’s Campaign To Bring Conservatives To Campus

If Johns Hopkins University wanted to signal its seriousness about creating an alternative to the left-leaning orthodoxy that permeates higher education, it couldn’t have done better than the recent hire of economist Peter Arcidiacono. Arcidiacono, a devout Roman Catholic, faced campus protests and sleepless nights after the publication of his empirical findings that affirmative action […]

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New Study Confirms The Right — And The Center — Have Nearly Disappeared From Faculty Politics

That is not just a campus culture-war problem. It is a knowledge-creation problem. I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and to this day, one of the stranger experiences I keep having is running into skepticism that there is even a free speech problem in higher education. You can cite survey data. You

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MAGA Death Post Fuels A First Amendment Court Fight

Jeremy Clepper was nearly ejected from a public meeting for criticizing a school board chairwoman’s vile social media post. Now, he has a rock-solid legal case. The Alachua County (Florida) School Board’s attempt to silence local father Jeremy Clepper during a public meeting is a textbook violation of his First Amendment rights, and he has

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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Includes Massive Blueprints For School Choice That Will Unleash Greater Student Results For U.S.

Buried in the 940-page “big, beautiful” budget blueprint is an unprecedented tax credit that, if approved, would be a long-sought victory for the private school choice movement in its drive to expand and break into Democratic states that have for decades blocked its path. The tax credit program, which would provide scholarships to K-12 students

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AG Secretary Rollins Is Still Working For The Kochs, Not Trump

In the last five years, he has advertised in local newspapers and accepted more than a dozen unemployed applicants from the state’s job agency. Even when the average rate on his fields was $20 an hour, the U.S.-born workers lost interest, fast. “We’ve never had one come back after lunch. — Bob Goehring, grapes farmer in

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Choice Tax Breaks: The GOP’s Federal Plan To Transform Education

Buried in the 940-page “big, beautiful” budget blueprint is an unprecedented tax credit that, if approved, would be a long-sought victory for the private school choice movement in its drive to expand and break into Democratic states that have for decades blocked its path. The tax credit program, which would provide scholarships to K-12 students

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Educated Bet: Massachusetts Schools May Risk Top Ranking to Lift Struggling Students

A high-stakes battle over the future of education is playing out in the state that has long had the best public schools in the nation – Massachusetts. The likely overhaul of high school education and graduation requirements in Massachusetts is mostly aimed at lifting the academic performance of low-income black and Latino students who have

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Kristy Noem’s Bombshell Letter Hits Harvard Where It Hurts

Ivy League academics mocked traditional values for decades. Now they’re panicking as their utopian vision crumbles — without a savior in sight. Picture a Harvard University faculty lounge: a ring of professors clustered around Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s letter, one of them furrowing his brow and murmuring, “Wait, are we the baddies?” Such moments

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