The Current Status of American Schools
Student skills are diminishing. Recently, more than 1,800 math and science lecturers at the University of California signed an open letter outlining a…
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Los Angeles’ School District Went From Morally to Financially Bankrupt
Los Angeles Unified School District is having a hard time paying the bills necessary to teach the kids, so it’s struggling to keep its doors open. Clearly…
NEA Same Ol’ Same Ol’
Earlier this month, the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, held its annual meeting in Denver. This year’s conference saw the teachers’…
Class Warfare
Student violence in many of our nation’s schools is out of control. An Education Week teacher survey, whose results were released in March…
Public Confidence in Higher Education Declining According to Latest Gallup Poll
A new Gallup survey shows public confidence in American higher education has declined amid rising concerns over campus politics and financial value following a…
Two Winners in Education: Merit Pay and School Choice
The recently released scores from the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the nation’s report card, offer little good news.
Randi Whinegarten
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, wrote a hyperbolic piece titled “America’s Teachers Can’t Afford to Teach…
Brown or the Ballot: End Voting Rights for the Ivy League
Ivy League professors claim that recent Supreme Court judgments ending racial gerrymandering undermine democracy. But what they truly mean by “democracy” is the…
University Indoctrination Centers Are Being Abandoned
As I wrote last week, public schools are depopulating on a large scale for a variety of reasons, including a declining birth rate, the fact that many of them…
Public Schools Are in a Downward Spiral
After decades of steady growth, attendance in U.S. K–12 public schools has shifted drastically. Over the past five years, registration has fallen by 2.3 percent…