Too many schools use this time of year to censor student graduation speeches.

By  Jeremy Adams – DailyWire.com – September 2022 It has taken a while for most thoughtful educators to finally arrive at the conclusion that phones need to be banned in the classroom—no middle ground, no nuance, no appeasement. Classrooms would be transformed overnight and our children might just rediscover what they can achieve if they are not perpetually distracted.  Last week,...

Critics of the pandemic school closures have been vindicated. They warned the closures would cause serious, possibly irreversible, developmental retardation. They warned of severe learning loss.

By: Ben Sasse – theatlantic.com – May 31, 2022 American higher education is the envy of the world, and it’s also failing our students on a massive scale. How can both be true simultaneously? Our decentralized, competitive system of research institutions is a national treasure, unparalleled in human history. We have the best universities, best professors, and best systems of...

Rather than wiping the slate clean on student debt, Washington should take a hard look at reforming a broken system. Source: How to Fix American Higher Ed – The Atlantic

Thirty-six of the top 50 med schools ask applicants about their commitment to DEI, the report found.

No sooner had President Joe Biden announced his plan for student loan debt forgiveness — $10,000 for non-Pell grant recipients and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients — the president of the NAACP was complaining that it should be more than twice as much.

By: Lee Burdette Williams – commonsense.news – August 31, 2022 About three million first-time college students will soon be arriving on campus—most of them coming directly from high school. About one million of them won’t make it through their first year or return as sophomores. This attrition is financially and emotionally devastating for families, and destabilizing for colleges. What goes wrong for...

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – August 29, 2022 As John mentioned late last week, an analysis from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton school concluded that Biden’s student-loan bailout will cost taxpayers between $600 billion and more than $1 trillion, much more than the $300 billion figure that had been thrown around before the decision. You will notice that on...

By: Philip Klein – nationalreview.com – August 29, 2022 I was out last week and as I’ve been catching up on the news, I’ve been struck by the incredibly disingenuous effort by liberals to normalize President Biden’s illegal student-loan forgiveness handout. This piece, by the Washington Post’s Paul Waldman, is particularly egregious, as he uses one flawed analogy after another...