Education

As early as 1899, students of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, a black public school in Washington, D.C., scored higher on citywide tests than any of the city’s white schools. From its founding in 1870 to 1955, most of its graduates went off to college.

Tenure is at best a mixed bag – sometimes it protects the already-employed, but at other times it means that candidates with unpopular views are never offered employment or promotion in the first place.

When governments abrogate parents’ right to choose, they instigate conflict between parents and teachers.

Parents are increasingly demanding freedom of choice in education.

Instead of workshops on social justice topics, Montessori organizations should feature seminars on the value and role of the individual in eliminating racism, and should glorify and celebrate the fact that the Montessori Method is based on individualism.

If you want to lead a successful life, our most urgent advice to you is to reject your professors’ assaults on reason and individualism.

“Forgive student loans” really means workers must pay for privileged students who don’t.

Imbue your child not with the dangers of the world, but with the factful progress of the world.

Critics claim the tests are culturally biased and say that’s why Blacks and Latinos don’t score as well. But that doesn’t explain why Asians do so well. In fact, Asians get the best SAT scores.

Without a separation of school and state, the madness will continue.

Government Education Increased Bureaucracy and Reduced Liberty

All evidence points to government-subsidization as the real culprit behind rising tuition costs.

It’s revealing that government-run schools fight to stay closed, while most businesses — private schools, restaurants, hair salons, gyms, etc., fight to be allowed to open.

Everyone else pays more because colleges get tax breaks, government grants, and government loans.

Why do black people, as a political group, accept the attack on charter schools given that charter schools provide superior educational opportunities for black youngsters.

Everything depends on how well Republicans inform black voters and how receptive those voters are to breaking their old voting habits.

Two websites, College Reform and College Fix, report on the despicable teachings on college campuses across the nation. Let us look at some of it.

The 1619 Project is still ill-suited for K-12 education. That is a judgement we may make on its scholarly shortcomings alone.

Americans need to pay attention to the miseducation of our youth and that miseducation is not limited to higher education.

Ordinarily, it is not a good idea to base how you vote on just one issue. But if black lives really matter, as they should matter like all other lives, then it is hard to see any racial issue that matters as much as education.

“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”

The education establishment, having the nation’s most powerful labor union, has the ears of political leaders. They see a huge loss potential if more parents are able to opt out of poorly achieving public schools.

Seeking social acceptance, rather than the facts of reality, is the result of peer pressure and can have a lasting negative impact on a child’s life. 

In Korea, top teachers make millions.