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August 24, 2023
The Hill that Public Education Dies on: Transgender Policies’ Utter Contempt for Parents
…If teachers in our nation’s public schools wish to restore and maintain Americans’ trust in education, they must be willing to acknowledge a simple fact about their profession: They’re not…
July 18, 2023
The Education Community’s Views on School Improvement Have Fundamentally Changed
A few months back, I reflected on the 40th anniversary of “A Nation at Risk,” the landmark 1983 report. But there’s one important point that I didn’t really address: that the report…
July 8, 2023
Why the End of Affirmative Action Is Good for Black Science Students
…40% offer physics. Only 9% of black students nationwide take advanced-placement courses in high school. According to research conducted at the University of Texas at Austin and Florida International University,…
June 30, 2023
The U.S. Could Learn a Lot from This School in the U.K.
Last month, I took advantage of a trip to the U.K. to spend a day observing at London’s legendary Michaela School, which serves about 800 students ages eleven to 18, a…
June 30, 2023
It’s Time to End Legacy Admissions
The Supreme Court’s decision in the UNC and Harvard cases was received, as most news is these days, in two quite different ways on the two sides of our political…
June 28, 2023
Yes, College Is Still a Good Investment
…Harvard economist David Deming shows that college education remains a worthwhile investment for long-term economic returns. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Deming…
June 26, 2023
Why There Are So Few Black Kids at Stuyvesant: Private Schools and Charter Schools Pull Top Students Out of the System
…schools, the charter school system, and Catholic schools. One way to judge the share of sufficiently-skilled Black students is to look at eighth-grade skill evaluations in the Nation’s Report Card….
June 9, 2023
Schools Use Racist “Reparations Math” to Indoctrinate Black Students with Victimization
…math education. According to the National Assessment for Educational Progress (AKA The Nation’s Report Card), in 2022, only 26% of all eighth-grade students nationwide performed at or above the NAEP Proficient…
June 8, 2023
Oklahoma Has Approved the Nation’s First Religious Charter School. What’s That Mean?
…and nature of the regulations in parental-choice programs will shape the extent and nature of the landscape of parental choice: If regulators continue to tread lightly, hopefully, most private schools…
August 30, 2022
Biden’s Student Loan Debt Plan is Driven by Politics, Not Economics
…will need in the coming election cycles to maintain any power in national politics. The fairness and the naked political ambition behind the plan are reason enough to object to…