It sounds big, sweeping, and enormously consequential. But is it really?

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...

Over 100 districts in 26 states promote affinity groups intended to provide ‘safe spaces’ for ‘underrepresented’ people to express themselves.

While Donald Trump’s effort to end the Department of Education is admirable, much else must be done to right the country’s wayward K-12 ship. One glaring issue that needs to be addressed is the…

By: Julie Jargon – wsj.com – February 22, 2025 Is a human-AI texting service the future of mental-health care for students? Teens around the country are confiding in Sonny when they feel they don’t have anyone else to talk to. Sonny is part human, part AI: a new kind of chatbot that school districts are adopting to provide support when...

Propaganda and conspiracy theories are often troubling and all too common. They also present serious challenges to critical thinking. There is also increasing attention and debate given to whether public schools and colleges in our time educate or indoctrinate their students.

Young America’s Foundation (YAF) filed a legal complaint with the Trump administration’s Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on Wednesday alleging that Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University (ERAU) has cracked down on certain forms of speech, violating several of President Donald Trump’s executive orders.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 10, 2025 Texas, Tennessee and other GOP-led states join the movement for more education freedom. The number of private school choice programs in the country grew to 81 from 65 from 2020-2024, according to the education nonprofit EdChoice. But only 33 states have choice programs, which means there are many more children...

By: Brittany Bernstein – nationalreview.com – February 6, 2025 The policy does allow men to practice with women’s teams. The NCAA reformed its policy on transgender-identifying athlete participation on Thursday, limiting participation in women’s divisions to female athletes. The policy allows men to practice with women’s teams and to receive “benefits such as medical care” while practicing, according to a...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – January 29, 2025 NAEP reading scores continue to decline, years after Covid lockdowns. That’s the bottom line from the 2024 National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) report released on Wednesday. Fourth and eighth grade reading scores declined by two points on average since 2022—roughly as much as they did between 2019 and 2022....