If the Queen Can Handle COVID, Why Are We Still Masking Kids?
Robby Soave gives his thoughts on Queen Elizabeth’s covid diagnosis and makes the case for unmasking children.
Robby Soave gives his thoughts on Queen Elizabeth’s covid diagnosis and makes the case for unmasking children.
By Andrew Sullivan, Weekly Dish It’s now happening in schools, and could take gay people down with it. For the first 15 years of my life, I never heard the word “homosexuality” in my home or school. I only knew about sex at all because in my Catholic […]
Daily Poster reporter, Julia Rock, details her reporting that the Biden Administration is still fighting student debtors in court.
Team Rising debate parents’ role in education as state legislatures across the country consider bills on the topic.
Krystal and Saagar talk with Daily Poster journalist Julia Rock about how the Biden administration has been fighting student debtors in court despite the rhetoric it has used publicly
Krystal and Saagar analyze the overwhelming recall of San Francisco school board members whose woke policies and covid school masking alienated local parents as Biden, Kamala polls plunge
Robby Soave reports on exclusive audio he obtatined that reveals how the CDC plans to handle masking guidelines in schools.
Conservatives: we hate Biden Liberals: we hate Trump Leftist and independents: we hate both of them Conservative and liberals: what!? I don’t understand!
Robby Soave weighs in on the recall of San Francisco school board members Gabriela Lopez, Alison Collins, Faauuga Moliga.
By Jesse O’Neill New York Post The Supreme Court on Friday shot down an appeal from a group of New York City school teachers who sought to block a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, arguing it violated their religious freedom. Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected the emergency appeal on Friday, the […]
“They’re violating our kids innocence,”- WTF college students (generally) are consenting adults.
Team Rising considers the Florida ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill that bars some conversations about gender identity and sexual orientation from taking place in classrooms and counselors’ offices, and has earned the support of Governor Ron DeSantis.
Briahna Joy Gray makes the case that the Biden administration’s failure to deliver on promises of a re-expanding the child tax credit and free community college will come to hurt Democrats during midterms.
Robby Soave details a shift among liberals and the school mask debate.
Robby Soave details the controversy surrounding Olympics protest art posted at George Washington University, and explains why some college adminsitrations show deference to China.
Durbin and Cornyn want to restore the ability for some students to seek bankruptcy:
“Democrats have completely lost it.” – Right!
Krystal and Saagar cover the Democratic Party’s sudden flip on covid mask mandates after Stacey Abrams took heat for an image of her maskless in a school full of masked up children
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to an image of Stacey Abrams sparking outrage amongst critics of in-school mandates.
By Rachel M. Cohen The Intercept Leaders wrestle over whether requiring student Covid shots will politicize other pediatric vaccines and embolden vaccine opponents. It wasn’t supposed to take this long to fully approve Covid-19 vaccines for the nearly 17 million U.S. adolescents ages 12-15 and the 28 million […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by author Freddie Deboer and policy expert Oren Cass who go back and forth on the left & right cases against the college for all system that dominates American education
From school shutdowns to insane teachers union demands to frustrated parents, the pandemic has made radical education reform a reality.
Florida recently passed a landmark Parents’ Bill of Rights. But in the long run, parental rights laws and anti–critical race theory bills can’t end the curriculum wars and secure the rights of parents. Only school choice can.
Robby Soave details his reporting on a California teacher who moved to Florida over critical race theory curriculum in the classroom.
Time for School Choice.
How access to school transportation drives inequality
By Damon Linker The Week Warnings about the rise of “cancel culture” may sometimes be overblown. But the case of Ilya Shapiro, a libertarian expert in constitutional law placed on “administrative leave” from Georgetown University’s law school, is an especially egregious example of the trend — and runs […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week Several historically Black colleges and universities have received bomb threats for the second consecutive day, and at least the third time in the past month. On Tuesday, Howard University said it had lifted a shelter-in-place directive after an investigation into a bomb threat made […]
By Sarah Jones New York Magazine Before the pandemic, the behavior of students in Dyonne Diggs’s high-school classroom was a “toss-up.” The high-school English teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina, said that after her students spent most of last year in remote schooling, they returned changed. They’re anxious, even […]
Saagar makes the comprehensive case for opposing booster mandates for kids based on trustworthy scientific evidence and policy decisions made in other countries on similar issues
By Scott Shackford, Reason But culture war political fights over race and sex education threaten their educational freedom. For an excellent example of how charter schools can reach students who struggle in standardized public school environments, head to Homewood, Alabama, a suburb of 25,000 people south of Birmingham. […]
By Andrew Sullivan There is a better way to defeat left indoctrination than banning books. One of the more familiar experiences on Twitter is being called a grifter, a person who issues takes entirely geared toward more clicks, readers, dollars or followers. It’s an exhausted slur, but, to […]
Katie Halper, Batya Ungar-Sargon, and Robby Soave discuss one of President Biden’s controversial federal judicial nominees
Saagar delivers the complete case for why masking children in schools needs to end due to the serious damage it has done to an entire generation of kids.
Robby Soave details new developments in the school mask mandate debate.
Krystal and Saagar dive into the educational initiative by Amazon where the company gives large amounts of money to public schools in exchange for students being taught company propaganda
By Jordan B. Peterson Independent Institute I recently resigned from my position as full tenured professor at the University of Toronto. I am now professor emeritus, and before I turned sixty. Emeritus is generally a designation reserved for superannuated faculty, albeit those who had served their term with some distinction. […]
Briahna Joy Gray argues that we should consider doing away with elite private universities all together.
Robby Soave makes the case against Los Angeles County Public Schools’ new Covid-19 mitigation requirements.
Team Rising weighs in on Democrats’ performance with Black voters, as well as how issues like critical race theory in schools will play out in the 2022 midterms.
By Samuel Goldman The Week The next battle in the war on “critical race theory” is here. Bills recently introduced in Congress and several states would require public schools to make information about their curriculum and classroom practices available to the public. The proposals represent a shift in strategy […]
By Kevin R. McClure and Alisa Hicklin Fryar Chronicle of Higher Education As many observers have pointed out, the “Great Resignation” doesn’t perfectly capture what’s happening in the U.S. labor market. Data suggest many people, especially those with jobs in fields like hospitality, aren’t quitting the work force but […]
It’s interesting how universities have become predatory capitalist corporations in terms of their business model, but Stalinist/fascist/fundamentalist regimes in terms of ideological conformity. By Katherine Frank, The Nation The Ivy League institution’s approach to the contract negotiations with its grad student workers reveals how it has evolved into […]
By Nani Sahra Walker Los Angeles The California State University announced it has added caste as a protected category in its systemwide anti-discrimination policy, a hard-fought policy deeply meaningful to Dalit students of South Asian descent. The Cal State policy came after years of activism from Dalit students and […]
Saagar covers the school mask wars unfolding across America between state level politicians and the Biden administration who refuse to concede ground on masking children
By Michael Paul Williams, Richmond Times Dispatch As he settles into office, Gov. Glenn Youngkin looks an awful lot like one of those “inherently divisive concepts” he seeks to ban from the classroom. It’s one thing to campaign to a soundtrack of dog whistles and yet another to […]
By Jessica Nocera , Mel Leonor , Patrick Wilson Richmond Times-Dispatch A group of Chesapeake parents sued Gov. Glenn Youngkin Tuesday in the Supreme Court of Virginia over Youngkin’s order that rescinded a statewide school mask mandate and gave parents an opt out from local mandates, saying a […]
By Andrew Sullivan The famed crusader dives deep into the issue with me. I found it hard to disagree with him. Rufo is a key architect of the anti-CRT legislation being passed in state legislatures around the country. He is also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, […]
By David R. Barnhizer There could not possibly be any parallel between the actions of MaoTse Tung’s young Red Guard zealots and the intensifying demands of identity groups in the US and Europe that all people must conform to their version of approved linguistic expression or in effect […]
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss Pfizer’s proposed solution to the Omicron variant.
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