Education

The Demonization of “White” English Harms Black Students

Is Learning Standard “White” English Oppressive for Black Students?

Children Having Children: A “Badge of Honor”?

Children Having Children: A “Badge of Honor”?

A few years ago, I visited a friend living in Cleveland's inner city. As we sat on my friend's porch, not one, but two teenage girls -- visibly pregnant -- walked by. My friend cheerfully called out their names. They smiled and waved back as they continued walking. I...

School Violence Toleration

School Violence Toleration

I'm wondering just when parents, especially poor minorities, will refuse to tolerate day-to-day school conditions that most parents wouldn't dream of tolerating. Lisa Snell, director of the Education and Child Welfare Program at the Los Angles-based Reason Foundation,...

Art Finally Comes to George Mason University

Controversial art historian Lee Sandstead will speak this Monday evening at the Johnson Center on something this campus hasn't seen or heard about in decades--art.What? How can I say this? Isn't there art everywhere at Mason?Well, yes, there is a lot of "art" on...

Choosing a College

Choosing a College

When a student at New York University committed suicide recently, it was the 6th suicide at that same institution this year. The suicide of someone in the prime of life, and getting an education that promises a bright future, should be much rarer than it is. But NYU...

Tax Credits–and Not Vouchers–for Education

Tax Credits–and Not Vouchers–for Education

The New York Sun has wisely opposed campaign finance regulations as violating the freedom of speech. The Sun has also argued that New York City's public campaign financing system deserves to be scrapped. Wasn't it Thomas Jefferson who wrote "that to compel a man to...

The Purpose of Speech Codes in Schools and Colleges

The Purpose of Speech Codes in Schools and Colleges

With all the noise being made -- from traffic noise to Al Gore's ranting -- you might never suspect that there was a National Day of Silence. What you might also not suspect is that this day is observed in schools and colleges across the country, where students agree...

Frequently Asked Questions about Education in America

1. How many students are enrolled in public and private schools in the United States? According to U.S. Department of Education estimates, there are 47.6 million students in public schools and 5.9 million in private schools.[1] As many as 2 million children are...

Before You Donate to Support a College…

In far too many instances, what passes as college life and education today is no less than shameful. Under the name of diversity and political correctness, billions of taxpayer dollars and donor contributions are used to promote what might be charitably called...

PC Ethics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

The following is a letter written in response to some accusations made by an unnamed professor against student Alexander Marriott as detailed in A Victory Against Political Correctness: Rebel Yell Apologizes to Alexander Marriott.Now that I am back on the job I have a...

School Performances

School Performances

Many of the pronouncements coming from those who run our public schools range from fallacies to frauds. The new book "No Excuses" by Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom exposes a number of these self-serving lies. You may have heard how hard it is to find enough teachers...

Hollywood’s Favorite Child Molester

Hollywood’s Favorite Child Molester

One of the most popular movies currently playing at the box office, "Jeepers Creepers 2," is a teen horror flick directed by a stomach-turning registered sex offender who was convicted of molesting a 12-year-old-boy he targeted, groomed, seduced, and filmed in...

Experts Without Expertise: Liberation’s Children

Experts Without Expertise: Liberation’s Children

We may become the first society destroyed by its own experts -- especially experts in fields where there is no expertise that can be verified by facts. Over the past several decades, no one has been victimized more by so-called experts than parents and children. And...

Liberal Segregationists in the Schools

Liberal Segregationists in the Schools

The spirit of George Wallace is alive and well -- among left-wing zealots in some of America's most "progressive" taxpayer-funded schools. In Oberlin, Ohio, local school board president Tony Marshall argues that only black high school teachers should teach "black...

The New York Times: Poster Child for Inaccurate Reporting

The New York Times: Poster Child for Inaccurate Reporting

Say what you want about The New York Times, but it still makes more news than any other paper in the United States. By this, I don't mean in the sense of printing the news, as other papers do, but rather in the sense of news about the Times itself. Consider these...

Dealing with School Violence

Dealing with School Violence

Marc Epstein teaches history at Jamaica High School in Queens, N.Y. He wrote the summer 2003 issue of Education Next's feature story, titled "Security Detail." If an American, who passed away as late as 1960, were somehow resurrected, he'd probably think Epstein...

The Failure of Middle East Studies

The Failure of Middle East Studies

The U.S. Congress broke with a 45-year tradition last week: It permitted a dissident to critique the federal funding for the study of foreign language and cultures - to suggest that the program often serves the very opposite of academia's goals or the nation's...

Patriotic Books for Children

Patriotic Books for Children

Giving kids a better grasp of what America means usually begins with a good book. The combination of appealing pictures and exciting ideas may spark a young person's interest to learn more about a topic. Several classic children's books offer reasons to celebrate...

New York Times and the Child Tax Credit

New York Times and the Child Tax Credit

Conservatives everywhere were celebrating last week with the announcement that Howell Raines was forced out as executive editor of The New York Times. Raines had pushed the paper yet further to the left and had done so in ways that were intended to be as irritating to...

Graduation Day Values

Graduation Day Values

As you start out on your careers and your adult lives, we urge you to hold two ideas as absolutes, never to be breached or compromised: that reason is your means of knowing reality, and that your life belongs only to you.

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