Commentary A Virginia school board is considering revising its policies on after-school clubs following conflict over a new “After School Satan Club.” The Chesapeake Public School Board previously allowed the Satan club to meet on school property, stipulating it pay over $600 for security for each meeting, something the district’s policy allows, local media reports. The…
American Public Schools, RIP
Commentary Many of the bizarre features of the pandemic response can be explained by industrial self-interest, graft, power lust, confusion, and so on. One feature does not have such an obvious explanation: the closure of public schools in some places for as long as two years. The extremely low-to-minimal risk to the kids was known from…
Hollywood Is Beijing’s Lap Dog
Commentary With Oscar nominations released for 2023 recently, one may look forward to Hollywood’s grandest moments of the year. But the sad truth is that Tinsel Town isn’t what it used to be, which was no great moral paragon, for sure. But what it’s become is even worse than what it was before. Bowing to…
Hey, Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone
January 13, 2023
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Commentary When Pink Floyd’s song “Another Brick in the Wall” was popular, I did not like it. The grammatical construction of the lyrics was aggressively wrong, and the whole thing struck me as a dangerous paean to ignorance. I never liked those kids who were “too cool for school.” In general, the song came across…
Biden Education Department’s Latest Plan for Socializing Higher Education
Commentary The U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday released new rules for income-based repayment of student loans, in what amounts to nothing less than a new socialism of higher education. The scheme will cause a massive inflow of loans into the new system and cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. Income-based repayment is affordable by definition….
With Schools Ditching Merit for Diversity, Families of High Achievers Head for the Door
January 5, 2023
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Alex Shilkrut has deep roots in Manhattan, where he has lived for 16 years, works as a physician, and sends his daughter to a public elementary school for gifted students in coveted District 2. It’s a good life. But Shilkrut regretfully says he may leave the city, as well as a job he likes in…
Education as a Battleground
The following is adapted from remarks delivered on Nov. 3, 2022, at a Hillsdale College reception in Santa Clara, California. If you want to see the problem with American education, look at a chart illustrating the comparative growth in the number of students, teachers, and district administrators in our public schools in the period between…
What Some Schools Are Teaching Kids Is So Obscene, Parental Rights Activists Can’t Even Read It on TV
October 30, 2022
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Parents and parental rights advocates seeking to shed light on what is being taught in schools say television stations won’t even broadcast what’s in their school curriculums because it’s too obscene. It is against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) guidelines to describe sexual conduct or feature any “grossly offensive” language on a radio or television broadcast. Parental…
Doubt-Free, America’s Schools Warm to Climate Activism
October 21, 2022
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Public school districts are adopting curricula on climate change from well-funded progressive groups casting the issue as a threat to life on the planet that students should respond to through activism. As of fall 2020, 29 states and the District of Columbia have adopted standards that require science classes to teach human-caused climate change as…
At Hillsdale, a College Education Is Still Possible
Commentary The news pouring out of the nation’s colleges and universities is grim. Wokeness pervades every discipline. The non-left is being purged from both students and faculty. The vaccine mandate has been a useful tool in that respect. It gets rid of those willing to think for themselves. Already long ago, the curriculum seemed ever…
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