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Blessings of the College Riots Part 2: Sue Members of the Board - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Board members have a fiduciary responsibility to see that students receive a full education on a safe campus.

#CollegeRiots

#DovFischerOpinion

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Columbia University Turmoil Recalls the Hitler Youth - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

In the long ago and far away, as the anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler’s Nazis slowly became front and center in 1920s Germany,

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From Enlightenment to Ignorance: Society’s Dangerous Embrace of Stupidity › American Greatness

What would be the state of a society in which a will to stupidity were united with a will to power? When I first decided to study and teach literature as my life’s vocation, I foresaw the work ahead…

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Don’t Feed the Pigs: College Costs Soar Past $90,000 Annually - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Boston University, Tufts, Wellesley College, and Yale aren’t the four best schools in the United States — just the four most expensive ones.

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Alabama Governor Signs Bill Banning DEI Programs at Public Schools and Universities | National Review

The law, set to take effect on October 1, also requires that bathrooms be designated based on biological sex.

“Great job Governor Meemaw!” Hahaha!

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How Bad Therapy Hijacked Our Nation’s Schools | The Free Press

Forget the Pledge of Allegiance. Today’s teachers are more likely to start the school day with an ‘emotions check-in.’ Abigail Shrier on the rise of ‘trauma-informed’ education.

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Georgia Board upholds firing of Cobb County teacher over children's book

Former Cobb County teacher Katie Rinderle was fired after reading a picture book discussing gender fluidity to her fifth grade students.

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Education Crisis: America’s Continuing Battle Against the ‘Act of War’ › American Greatness

In April 1983, U.S. Secretary of Education Terrell Bell created the National Commission on Excellence in Education, directing it to “examine the quality of…

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Major Cornell donor pulls funding over ‘toxic’ DEI culture, pens letter calling for president’s resignation

Lindseth also said that a new campus “bias reporting system” has helped to foster an “Orwellian environment” among classmates, colleagues and neighbors.

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Florida Universities to drop sociology as a core course, add history

The decision stems from an argument that students can be “radicalized” by the subject. An American history course will replace it.

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Errors found in dozens of papers by top scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Science | AAAS

Harvard-affiliated research institute seeks retractions on six papers and corrections for 31 others

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How Texas A&M’s Deal with Qatar ‘Puts American Security at Risk’ | The Free Press

The troubling ties between one of America’s top nuclear engineering universities and the state that harbors Hamas.

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Bill Ackman: How to Fix Harvard | The Free Press

Claudine Gay’s ouster won’t change things. The college needs a complete overhaul, starting with a resignation of the board and the removal of DEI from every corner of the institution.

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The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

The American Spectator Foundation educates the public on new ideas, concepts, and policies that favor traditional American values, such as economic freedom, individual liberty, self-sufficiency, and limited government.

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The Lauder Business School in Vienna Severs Ties with Harvard amid Antisemitism Row | National Review

The Lauder Business School in Vienna is cutting ties with Harvard University amid the college's failure to tackle growing concerns about antisemitism.

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Billionaire Len Blavatnik Pauses Donations to Harvard amid Plagiarism, Antisemitism Scandals: Report | National Review

Billionaire Len Blavatnik will be pausing his donations to Harvard University over president Claudine Gay's handling of antisemitism on campus, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. 

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University of Wisconsin agrees to cut diversity initiatives in exchange for state funding | The Hill

The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents in an unexpected reversal made a deal with Republican lawmakers Wednesday to cut back on diversity initiatives in their institutions in exchange for state funding that will cover staff expenses. The boar

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How Were the Universities Lost? › American Greatness

After October 7, the public was shocked at what they saw and heard on America’s campuses. Americans knew previously they were intolerant, leftwing…

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House Education Committee to Investigate Harvard, MIT, UPenn over Campus Antisemitism | National Review

The investigation comes after a hearing at which the university presidents argued that calls for genocide would not violate their codes of conduct.

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Stefanik on antisemitism

Harvard University President Dr. Claudine Gay declined to specify action taken against anti-Semitic students calling for "intifada" when pressed by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.

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NYU Law Students Vote to Oust Bar Association President Ryna Workman | National Review

The New York University School of Law student body has voted to remove Ryna Workman from her post as president of the university’s Student Bar Association.

How does someone this ignorant become president of a law school student bar association? Right, I know the answer but it still stuns me.

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Where Free Speech Ends and Lawbreaking Begins

The First Amendment does not give carte blanche to intimidation and harassment, writes Ilya Shapiro.

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DEI an Enemy of Free Speech, Not a Friend | National Review

While the danger of DEI is especially acute in medical schools, the ideology damages educational standards and jeopardizes free speech everywhere.

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Can We Save our Universities? › American Greatness

It took the widely reported, repellent, and exempt wave of anti-Semitism and violent pro-Hamas protestors harassing Jews, finally to convince Americans that…

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Arab Muslim Foreigners and Illegals Stoke Campus Anti-Semitism - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

The outbreak of overt anti-Semitism on American campuses results from our importing of Arab and other Muslim foreign and illegal students.

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Banning Cellphones in Schools: Study Needed on Effects | National Review

A new bill from Senators Tom Cotton and Tim Kaine would support a study of the effects of banning these devices in schools.

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Brandeis University Bans Students for Justice in Palestine, Citing Support of Hamas | National Review

Brandeis is the first private U.S. college to ban the group.

Good for them. All universities and colleges should do the same.

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Is Campus Rage Fueled by Middle Eastern Money? | The Free Press

According to a new report, at least 200 American colleges and universities illegally withheld information on approximately $13 billion in undisclosed contributions from foreign regimes.

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Marc Rowan hits back at UPenn leadership after antisemitism on campus

Apollo CEO Marc Rowan’s plan to oust the leadership of the University of Pennsylvania, is picking up steam and could blow a $1 billion hole in the school’s fund­raising ­efforts, the Post has learned.

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Anatomy of a College Brainwashing: How UCI Makes Students Empathize with Hamas and Hate Israel - The American Spectator

I know UCI and how it operates, brainwashing students by enveloping them in an all-leftist environment. It has done the same with Israel.

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Qatar’s War for Young American Minds | The Free Press

The same country now protecting Hamas’s senior leaders has donated billions to American universities. Here’s why.

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I was a DEI director — DEI drives campus antisemitism

I saw antisemitism on a weekly basis in my two years as a faculty “diversity, equity and inclusion” director.

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Donor Flees Harvard Over Failure To Take ‘Clear And Unequivocal Stand’ After Hamas Attack | The Daily Caller

Harvard University lost another donor on Monday following its response to the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, according to a letter obtained by StopAntisemitism.

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The High Price of Historical Illiteracy - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

The only defense against despotism is historically literate Americans who understand and are willing to demand their rights.

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Can a Donor Revolt Save American Universities? | The Free Press

After universities both-sides the mass slaughter of Jews, Bill Ackman, John Huntsman, and others are saying ‘the buck stops here.’

It is disgraceful that it took the horrors committed by Hamas against Israeli citizens to wake these people up, but maybe it’s a start, a glimmer of hope.

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The Highest-Paying Jobs With Associate Degrees | Payscale

Whether you are a new student or going back to school, use Payscale's College Salary Report to find the best 2-year colleges by earning potential.

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No One Should Be Surprised By Campus Radicalism

When universities began hiring unrepentant terrorists and Marxist revolutionaries as professors, they had to know where this would all lead.

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Pro-Palestine U.S. College Campus Protests: How Radical Jihadist-Linked Groups Spread the Cancer of Antisemitism across

Over the last 20 years, groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine, which have historic ties to terror groups, have radicalized young Americans.

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Campus Cowardice and Where the Buck Stops | The Free Press

Microaggressions are met with moral condemnation. But actual violence is tolerated—even glorified. On the rot inside our universities and what to do about it.

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Answer The Call Already: Ban Smartphones In Schools

Our policy leaders and the professional development gurus who alter the waves of pedagogic practice need to heed parents and teachers.

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DeSantis Suspends Four Florida Schools from Scholarship Programs over CCP Ties | National Review

Governor Ron DeSantis suspends four schools from school-choice scholarship program because of their alleged "ties to the Chinese Communist Party."

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Harvard is named worst school for free speech — scoring zero out of possible 100

Harvard comes dead last in a new ranking from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).

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Ranked: Most Popular U.S. Undergraduate Degrees (2011‒2021)

Health, computer science, and engineering college departments have seen a surge of completed undergraduate degrees in the decade since 2011.

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Journalism Is 'Most Regretted' Major As Trust In Big Media Sinks

At a time when most Americans recognize the corporate media are dishonest, journalism tops the list of most regretted college degrees.

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Parents Revolt Against Trans-Missionaries › American Greatness

As I noted recently, fads aren’t always harmful things. Nehru jackets, lava lamps, and mood rings may have set you back a few bucks, but that was the extent of…

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How Do You Spell ‘Mississippi’? | National Review

The Magnolia State’s revolution in reading instruction.

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Student Loan Forgiveness Finds Unlikely Republican Champion

Ron DeSantis has pledged to make universities responsible for loans their students accrue and to make it easier for loans to be discharged through bankruptcy.

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What Obama’s Letter to Libraries Leaves Out | National Review

Books aren’t being ‘banned’ — age-inappropriate material is being removed from schools and, in some cases, from the children’s sections of public libraries.

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Arizona State University faces crisis as donor pulls money, lawmakers probe free speech concerns

Arizona Senate Republicans launched a committee to study free speech at public universities and to look at the events surrounding the "Health, Wealth & Happiness" program. 

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Hundreds of Parents Gather outside Maryland School-Board Meeting to Protest Mandatory LGBT Curricula | National Review

The district closed the school-board meeting to the public, in possible violation of state law.

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Former high school debater left shocked by biased judges: 'Conform or fail'

Former high school debaters Lawence Joseph and James Fishback joined "America's Newsroom" to explain how biased judges are negatively impacting competitive student debates.

The biased judges, of which there seem to be many, need to be outed and run out of town. They are effectively destroying free speech.

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What Happens After the End of Affirmative Action?

The Supreme Court is expected to rule that colleges can no longer rig for racial diversity. Some say ‘that’s dangerous and cruel.’ Others say it’s about time.

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Part II: At High School Debates, Watch What You Say

Kids are losing high school debates because of their personal tweets, reveals James Fishback in a new exposé.

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South Carolina’s Ban on CRT in Schools is Working - The American Spectator

“Hopefully I don’t get fired for this,” a teacher told her students as she prepared to show them two short videos on critical race theory

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More Evidence That the College Bubble Is Deflating | National Review

American policy gave us the higher-education bubble.

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Betsy DeVos Receives a 2023 Bradley Prize: Be Tamarisk, Not Ar’ar, Trees - The American Spectator

The following remarks were delivered by the Honorable Betsy DeVos, former secretary of education, upon reception of a 2023 Bradley Prize at the Bradley Foundation’s 19th Annual Bradley Prizes ceremony on May 16 in Washington, D.C. Reprinted with per

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At High School Debates, Debate Is No Longer Allowed

At national tournaments, judges are making their stances clear: students who argue ‘capitalism can reduce poverty’ or ‘Israel has a right to defend itself’ will lose—no questions asked.

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Transgenderism Makes Its Way to Campus: Biden, Education, and Title IX - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

When Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was enacted, it provided that “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to...

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Dishonor Code: What Happens When Cheating Becomes the Norm?

Students say they are getting ‘screwed over’ for sticking to the rules. Professors say students are acting like ‘tyrants.’ Then came ChatGPT . . .

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The Inside Forces Upending Medicine

DEI in our med schools, trauma in psychiatry: two stories explore the sabotage of science.

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Thanks To Modern Snobs, Classic Books Are 'Gone With The Wind'

Growth stems from discomfort. If classic books are removed from public consumption and discourse, then personal growth will stagnate.

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Federal Judges Are Refusing to Hire Stanford Law Grads as Clerks

Only the most rabid partisan would disagree with Judge Ho's analysis of the current state of intellectual diversity on most campuses. But what can be done?

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Who Owns the University? › American Greatness

The most recent shout-down debacle at Stanford’s law school, one of many such recent sordid episodes, prompts the question: “Who owns our universities?” The law students who are in residence for three…

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What Happened to Stanford? › American Greatness

Stanford was once one of the world’s great universities. It birthed Silicon Valley in its prime. And along with its nearby twin and rival, UC Berkeley, its brilliant researchers…

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Me and the Despicable Canines at Stanford Law - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

First things first. When I was a little boy studying at yeshiva elementary school (Jewish parochial school), I had a first-grade English teacher who was first grade, Mrs. Sherman. Yes, Missus Sherman. She taught me two things I always have...

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Ted Cruz Takes Stanford Law to School Over Leftist Effort to Shut Down Speech

Cruz tells Stanford Law School to stop the descent into craziness.

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Vermont Christian Girls School Barred from Future Competition for Refusing to Play against Male Athlete | National Review

The Vermont Principals’ Association found that the school had violated its non-discrimination policy.

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Public School Board Axes Christian Student Teachers - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Let’s try a thought experiment: A public school board votes for a policy that bans a certain group of people — say, teachers who are LGBTQ+ — from teaching in its school system because, it fears, one or more of...

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The CCP Is Funding Private Schools in America. Republicans Want to Stop Them.

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UNC–Chapel Hill Drops DEI Hiring Requirement amid Growing Backlash | National Review

The announcement comes on the heels of the unanimous decision by the university board of governors aimed at reinforcing free speech and debate.

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Baltimore parent demands action after 23 schools report no math proficiency: 'Systematically failing'

Baltimore mother Davida Allen slammed the city's public school system for 'systematically failing' after 23 schools reported no students were proficient in math.

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Colorado School Board Hits Back After MSNBC Smear Campaign

After being targeted by MSNBC, Colorado’s conservative Woodland Park School District is correcting the record.

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State Dumps Degree Requirement for 65,000 Jobs, Promotes 'Practical Experience' Over College

Right direction?

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Prof leaves University post due to "silence on the false 'climate emergency' narrative". - Gript

"Rise of illiberalism"

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College Board to revise AP African American Studies course rejected by DeSantis administration

The College Board announced it would update the AP African American studies course.

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Like DeSantis, All Republicans Should Stop College Board Classes

On Sunday, Kamala Harris claimed preventing teachers from teaching kids to judge each other by skin color is 'ban[ning] American history.'

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The Virginia Schools Scandal | National Review

Governor Youngkin is right to blame the ‘maniacal focus’ on equal outcomes.

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DeSantis vs. DEI: An Honest Accounting - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Earlier this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis set off alarm bells in academia by requesting an accounting of expenditures related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory (CRT) in Florida’s public universities. For years, Republicans h

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Texas bill would ban diversity offices at public colleges

The proposal includes a provision that would force institutions to pay legal costs for people who successfully sue them for violations.

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House GOP Introduces Bill Requiring K–12 Schools to Post Curricula Online | National Review

‘Parents have the right to know what their children are being taught in the classroom,’ one of the legislation’s sponsors said.

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How DEI Is Supplanting Truth as the Mission of American Universities

An obsession with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion threatens students, professors, and the very credibility of higher education in the U.S.

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Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success | National Review

Rather than teaching the narratives of ‘blaming the system’ or ‘blaming the victim,’ we should focus on helping young adults follow the sequence to success.

We used to call it common sense.

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Michigan Mom Denied Quest for Educational Transparency - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Parents suspicious that public schools don’t want them to know what teachers are teaching their kids will have their fears confirmed by news coming out of Michigan earlier this month. One parent in the Rochester School District, near Detroit, after...

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Are Universities Doomed? › American Greatness

In a famous exchange in the The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway wrote: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” “Gradually” and “suddenly” applie

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Pushback Starts: Texas Legislator Offers Bill To Stop Wokeness On Campuses | The Daily Wire

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The Governor Kemp Problem › American Greatness

Recently in Georgia, Governor Brian Kemp’s education office issued a draft of new English language arts (ELA) standards for public comment. Such efforts pop up every five years or so, and they’re not…

I suspect there are many like Governor Kemp who are not aware of this tactic used by the left. The classics are so important. Great authors teach us so many lessons that shape our character, our morals, our political opinions. Just another tool to wipe out our history and destroy conservative values.

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How Tolerating Misbehavior Hurts Students | National Review

Students need order — not loosely managed pandemonium — to learn effectively. Without it, pandemic-era learning loss will continue to accelerate.

It’s actually hard for me believe this actually has to be said. Discipline used to be the norm.

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Classical Schools Promote the Ideals of Entrepreneurship - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

In recent years, the push for more STEM courses in K-12 education has advanced alongside calls for entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk start new businesses that improve our quality of life and help the...

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Education choice supporters win big in 2022 midterm elections

From Arizona to Florida, states that went big on school choice policies in the last two years overwhelmingly re-elected the people who made it happen.

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An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science

What scientists are able to teach and what research we can pursue are under attack. I know because I’m living it, writes biologist Luana Maroja.

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Affirmative action policies are 'un-American' and 'racist,' Nikki Haley says as Supreme Court hears arguments

Nikki Haley, who has embraced her Indian heritage, is speaking out against Harvard and UNC's "racist" admissions policies in a case before the Supreme Court Monday.

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Catholic schools avoided public schools' learning loss — maybe because they were actually open

With news that reading and math test scores saw record drops in the United States during the pandemic, there is fear that this could hurt Democrats. Some are skeptical that closures were a leading cause.