Education
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March 31st, 2025
Gen Z-er bored on couch with phone
Experts are taking swipes at higher ed for “failing to deliver on its implicit promise,” as millions of Gen Zers are locked out of the workforce.
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March 26th, 2025
classroom - elementary students
How did I, my parents, grandparents and ancestors going back to the founding of the nation manage to get a decent education before the federal Department of Education (DOE) was created by Jimmy Carter and a Democratic Congress?
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March 21st, 2025
Trump signs EO to shut down the DOE
By: James Lynch – nationalreview.com – March 20, 2025 The long-expected executive order will likely face significant legal challenges. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday shuttering the Department of Education, fulfilling a long-standing conservative wish to do away with the agency. Trump’s order directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take the “necessary steps” to close the $268 billion...
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March 20th, 2025
Dept Of Education - CLOSED
If an investment yields stagnant or negative returns despite increased funding, the rational thing to do is back off. This logic rarely applies in government, but we’re in a unique moment.
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March 17th, 2025
Dept Of Education - CLOSED
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 14, 2025 Good riddance as Trump moves to dismantle it. But what then? The layoffs are being handled in the blunderbuss way typical of Mr. Trump and the Elon Musk efficiency operation. Education Secretary Linda McMahon told the Senate during her confirmation hearings that her department was set up by Congress and...
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March 13th, 2025
First Liberty
Yesterday, First Liberty Institute and the law firms Gibson Dunn and Spencer Fane filed a friend-of-the-court brief at the U.S. Supreme Court with Gibson Dunn representing First Liberty and First Liberty representing Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma Department of Education, and the Oklahoma Board of Education. The brief challenges the exclusion of religious schools from the state’s charter school program, thus...
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March 12th, 2025
Harvard University Campus
Propaganda and conspiracy theories are often troubling and all too common. They also present serious challenges to critical thinking.
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March 7th, 2025
Trump Delivers SOTU
It sounds big, sweeping, and enormously consequential. But is it really?
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March 6th, 2025
Trump and shattered Department of Education medalion
By: Matt Barnum, Ken Thomas, and Tarini Parti – wsj.com – March 5, 2025 Secretary Linda McMahon would be directed to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure” based on “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.” A draft of the order, viewed by The Wall Street Journal, directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps...
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March 4th, 2025
close up of Trumps hand signs executive order
Over 100 districts in 26 states promote affinity groups intended to provide ‘safe spaces’ for ‘underrepresented’ people to express themselves.
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