Penna Dexter The Taylor Swift–Travis Kelce engagement has some people wondering: Will marriage by the world’s most famous millennial feminist accelerate the recent, modest reversal of the decline in marriage rates? The Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman wrote recently of a marriage “comeback.” He cites data that “suggests that the decades-long decline in the proportion of Americans who are married…
Read NowPenna Dexter To address what they see as the problem of social inequities between students, education bureaucrats have implemented “reforms” in grading practices aimed at promoting ”equity” in student outcomes. In a new survey conducted by the Thomas Fordham Institute, an education-policy think tank, 52 percent of teachers said their school or district had adopted at least one of these…
Read NowPenna Dexter The year was 1977. I was a baby Christian living in a suburb of Los Angeles. I volunteered to man the book table at an event at our church put on by a new organization: Focus on the Family. Before the program even started, attendees were stopping at my table, buying books with titles like DARE TO DISCPLINE,…
Read NowPenna Dexter The frontrunner in the New York mayoral race, has a lot of bad ideas. Soon after Zohan Mamdani won the Democratic primary, John Catsimatidis, owner of New York City’s 2 oldest and largest independent supermarket chains, wrote an op ed for the Wall Street Journal. In it, he warns about what is probably the worst of the candidate’s…
Read NowPenna Dexter The fertility rate in the United States just hit 1.6 children per woman, an all time low. The replacement rate — the level that will keep the population stable — is 2.1 children per woman in the U.S. and 2.25 globally. Drop below 2 and depopulation begins. Two economists at the University of Texas, Austin outline the factors…
Read NowPenna Dexter Do you love to read books — but don’t do it enough? That’s me. The most interesting people in my life are those who read a lot of books. Why do I not read as many books as I’d like? Why do I have a stack of them on my bedside table that never seems to get shorter….
Read NowPenna Dexter School discipline policies in several states are changing for the better. The shift comes after President Trump issued an executive order last April aimed at restoring common sense to school discipline. The order states: “The Federal Government will no longer tolerate known risks to children’s safety and well-being in the classroom that result from the application of school…
Read NowPenna Dexter Early in her tenure as U.S. Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon began working herself out of a job. Last week she got a boost from the Supreme Court. The Wall Street Journal’s headline was “High Court Paves the Way to Weaken Education Department.” The Court lifted a lower court ruling that blocked staff layoffs at the Department as…
Read NowPenna Dexter The United Nations is notorious for pushing radical gender ideology on member nations, even those who hold to the biological definitions of male and female. Thankfully, the top UN human rights official for women has a refreshing message for those traditional — and often religious— countries. Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, recently presented a…
Read NowPenna Dexter It feels like common sense is flowing back into the country as the Trump administration goes department-by-department, unraveling much of the woke nonsense under which decision-makers have been operating. One absurd policy after another is being jettisoned and replaced with common sense directives like the one that says: “Sororities are for women.” In early June, the U.S. Department…
Read NowPenna Dexter Students at colleges across the country are increasingly using a relatively new tool for staying “safe:” the No Contact Order. No Contact Orders — NCOs – were originally developed to protect students who were victims of sexual harassment or assault on campus. A recent Wall Street Journal report states: “Over the past 10 years, however, the circumstances under…
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