By: Matthew Hennessey – wsj.com – December 20, 2023 The lockdowns and lockouts of 2020 dealt a reputational blow to the education blob—that quasipublic syndicate of teachers unions, government bureaucracies, brand-name credentialing institutions and their media allies whose mission is to keep taxpayer money flowing to public schools. Most of that money is linked to students, many of whom left...

By: Michael Segal – wsj.com – December 18, 2023 Even support for Hamas’s Islamic supremacist ideology didn’t surprise anyone reading student newspapers. The most significant change in students’ moral philosophy in recent years has been the popularity of an identity-based ideology known as “intersectionality” that demands special privileges for all groups deemed oppressed. Intersectionality creates a pecking order with blacks,...

By: Adam M. Carrington – nationalreview.com – December 17, 2023 Classical education is not a threat. Don’t bash it. Let it thrive as a good for our republic. Is education Republican or Democrat, conservative or progressive? In a rightly ordered system, it should be neither. Instead, education in our country should be human and American. It should teach us the elements...

By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – December 17, 2023 Corporation is an apt appellation for Harvard and other Ivy League schools, considering they operate more like for-profit businesses than educational institutions. Unlike businesses, however, they lack shareholders to hold them accountable. This makes them models of the left’s “stakeholder capitalism” paradigm. The Harvard Corp. consists of 13 members, including the...

By: Becket Adams – nationalreview.com – December 17, 2023 Reading the news these days hardly feels like engaging with uncompromising truth-seeking. The stuff the corporate press chooses to pump out now, and the editorial choices they make regarding what is pursued and what is not pursued, has all the feel of public-relations work tailored specifically to excite and inspire a specific fan base...

We are constantly told how necessary it is to find the”root causes” of everything, from crime, to illegal immigration, to the wave of antisemitism spreading across many college campuses and in our streets.

By: Daniel Henninger – wsj.com – December 13, 2023 It may be no coincidence that colleges are abandoning SATs at the same time three university presidents were flunking questions in public about genocide. After receiving Fs for insisting that the answer to any direct question is “It depends on the context,” University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill lost her job...

Minnesota School District Urged to Grant Opt-Out from Sexual Curriculum to Religious Families Families had been previously denied opt-out requests, but after letter from law firm, school district may grant requests. St. Louis Park, MN—First Liberty Institute and […]

By: Elise Stefanik – wsj.com – December 7, 2023 College presidents are directly responsible for the hatred that has flourished on campus since Oct. 7. But when I asked Harvard President Claudine Gay at a congressional hearing whether calls for the genocide of Jews violated the university’s rules on bullying and harassment, she answered: “It depends on the context.” Pressed...

By: Ron E. Hassner – wsj.com – December 5, 2023 But only 47% of the students who embrace the slogan were able to name the river and the sea. Some of the alternative answers were the Nile and the Euphrates, the Caribbean, the Dead Sea (which is a lake) and the Atlantic. Less than a quarter of these students knew...