education gone wild

2 min read 2022-03-30 09:39:47

MIT Reinstates SAT and ACT Requirement, Says It’s More Equitable

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Monday that it will again require applicants to submit an SAT or ACT score. It had paused the

3 min read 2022-03-26 12:25:21

In the past few years, political activists have successfully integrated radical gender ideology into America’s education system. Schools have

4 min read 2022-03-18 10:27:13

As more and more studies demonstrate the devastating impact of school closures on children — including the toll on children’s physical and mental

2 min read 2022-02-27 11:09:46

If there’s one group the education establishment wants to stop, it is parents, many of them Asians, who push their students to excel. Thomas

3 min read 2022-02-26 10:05:25

There has been an enormous backlash to the 1619 Project, causing it to be banned from public school curriculums in Florida and Texas. But the

6 min read 2022-02-23 10:39:11

Have you heard that there’s a “national teacher shortage” in our public schools across the country? Well, apparently it’s a real thing. We

4 min read 2022-02-16 10:55:07

Soon after he took office in mid-January, Gov. Glenn Youngkin started to make good on his promises to Virginia parents by issuing an executive order

4 min read 2022-02-07 11:26:37

An epidemic is ravaging college campuses and it’s not COVID. But in the long run, it may prove more deadly to the academic enterprise because it

2 min read 2022-02-06 10:08:51

The New York Times is concerned about censorship in American schools. “Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S.” reads Sunday’s

6 min read 2022-02-05 10:05:00

One of the worst features of the pandemic has been the negative effect this ordeal is having on children. Obviously, the exceedingly rare cases of

5 min read 2022-02-04 11:10:03

Until I saw the new documentary The Unmaking of a College: The Story of a Movement, I wasn’t aware of the record set at Hampshire College in 2019

4 min read 2022-02-03 12:45:31

The consensus on masking has shifted this winter. Whereas before the enforced wisdom was that all masks provide protection, experts and infectious

4 min read 2022-02-02 11:04:15

The Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) system hasn’t gotten the memo. Last week, the county doubled down on its policy of requiring students to

3 min read 2022-01-28 11:34:41

In 2009, Barack Obama appointed Kevin Jennings, an LGBTQ activist, to head up the Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools.

3 min read 2022-01-23 11:14:16

Newly minted Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed nine executive orders and two directives that, among other things, ended a mandate that state