The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee holds a hearing on Preparing for the Next Public Health Emergency: Reauthorizing the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act at 1:00 p.m. ET on May 4. Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Dawn O’Connell, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert…
Senate Committee Hearing on ‘Preparing for the Next Public Health Emergency’
May 4, 2023
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8th Grade History, Civics Scores Drop Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
May 3, 2023
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Average U.S. history and civics test scores have dropped among eighth graders since before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The 2022 findings from the NAEP—dubbed “The Nation’s Report Card”—were released on May 3, revealing a five-point drop in U.S. history scores and a two-point drop—the first ever—in civics scores…
The State Is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want
May 2, 2023
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Commentary The words of C.S. Lewis’s masterpiece, “The Screwtape Letters,” help me understand the ethos of the era we are living in when “feelings” are held as superior to the wisdom of hundreds of known generations before us: “The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and,…
Letter to the Board of Education
April 28, 2023
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Commentary In 2021, the New York Times reported that the San Francisco Board of Education had approved a plan to rename 44 of the city’s schools that were named after people such as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Paul Revere, and Robert Louis Stevenson, due to those historical figures’ connection with white supremacy and patriarchy. The…
New! Advanced Public Education! Compare With Brand ‘Equity’!
Nico’s prospects were already looking dicey in the second grade. Raised by his Latina grandmother in a Spanish-speaking home, he was a witty boy whose clowning got him branded as a troublemaker in an Arizona public school outside Phoenix. But Nico was saved from this downward spiral by an unlikely intervention—a test given to all…
Andrew Tettenborn: ‘Cap Foreign Students so British People Can Benefit From Top Quality University Education’ | British Thought Leaders
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Andrew Tettenborn, professor of law from Swansea University and media columnist. Tettenborn talks about the state of free speech in higher education, the damage caused by universities changing from being institutions to being providers of services, and his own personal encounter with Chinese Communist Party censorship. …
Teachers Union Thuggery
Commentary If thugs were hurting your kid, you’d do almost anything to stop them. The harm inflicted by the teachers unions is legalized thuggery. Here’s what you can do. The tragic consequences of union strong-arming will be on display Wednesday, when a House subcommittee grills American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten on how the…
Forty Years a Teacher
April 25, 2023
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Commentary At age 24, at the commencement of his teaching career—coincident with the appearance of multiculturalism, postmodernism, the idea that Western civilization is just one approach—this author understood that the career before him would be in the service of a system in decline. He could have withdrawn and chosen not to serve; instead, he followed…
Let Parents Opt Out of Low-performing Schools
April 25, 2023
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Commentary Single mom Shinara Morrison discovered homeschooling by accident. When public schools closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, she found herself taking the lead on her child’s education to fill the gap. Morrison never withdrew her son, who was 7, from the public school system. But she supplemented his online instruction with custom coursework that blended…
Indiana University’s ‘Implicit Bias’ Training Module for Hiring Faculty Under Scrutiny
The Indiana University Office of Academic Affairs is under scrutiny for its “implicit bias” training module about hiring practices at the university. Do No Harm (DNH), an organization that spotlights discriminatory practices in academic and medical institutions, highlighted a training module used at the university for faculty search committees, encouraging committee members to consider ideological…
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