Does the American education system deserve our trust? Gallup polls show a steady decline of trust in higher education. The recurring stories of violent chaos erupting across the university landscape do nothing to increase colleges’ credibility.

Removing rewards for politicized truancy in K–12 schools is the best way to break the cycle of lawlessness now entrenched in America’s education system.

Sometimes unexpected but dramatic events tear off the thin veneer of respectability and convention. What follows is the exposure and repudiation of long-existing but previously covered-up pathologies.

The Biden administration’s Title IX rule, which the Education Department published on April 29, is a looming disaster for women and girls.

Butker’s sin, at least in the eyes of the far-Left, is refusing to keep quiet about the woke cancer eating its way through American culture.  

All my adult life, I have warned people about the low moral and intellectual level of colleges and universities. This is the way I have put it: “If you send your child to college, you are playing Russian Roulette with his or her values.”  

Anti-Israel/pro-Hamas campus protests have engulfed hundreds of college campuses. But the more coastal, blue-state, and supposedly elite the campus was, the more furious the violence that sometimes followed these demonstrations.  

The rectitude or constitutionality of a court ruling is not determined by its political popularity in the moment, thank goodness. Let’s start right there.  

By: The Editors – nationalreview.com  – May 16, 2024 The sooner we can talk about this poisonous ideology in the past tense, the better. It was a great racket while it lasted, but so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives have spent the last year in retreat — compelling the practitioners of discriminatory “social justice” to conduct a flailing rearguard...

By: Jessica Schwalb – nationalreview.com – May 16, 2024 The main thing I’ve learned from the events of the past month is that the protest mindset disinclines students to learn from one another.  A black mask and the hood of a Choate sweatshirt helped conceal her identity. But her eyes were familiar.  “You don’t need to do this,” I said to...