Hey Leftoids! Bidens Education Dept Blocks GOP-Sponsored Bankruptcy Relief For Student Loan Debt
Durbin and Cornyn want to restore the ability for some students to seek bankruptcy:
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.
By Audrey Williams June Chronicle of Higher Education New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center provides a somber final tally of college enrollment during the fall of 2021: It dropped 2.7 percent from a year earlier, a decline of 476,100 students. Undergraduate enrollment, which was down at […]
By Paul Blest, Vice The lawsuit calls the group schools a “price-fixing cartel.” More than a dozen of the nation’s top universities—including Ivy League universities Yale, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania—allegedly used their financial aid policies to rip off more than 170,000 students for […]
Krystal and Saagar review the lawsuit being brought against elite colleges and universities alleging criminal collusion to deny students the proper financial aid among other charges
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic Omicron is leading to school closures and reigniting familiar debates around the safety of in-person learning. In Chicago, public schools remain closed amid a dispute with the teachers’ union over when to switch to remote instruction. Districts in other parts of the […]
Krystal examines the crisis of American children due to the covid guidelines in schools over the past two years that have caused major mental health issues and educational setbacks
Chicago Teachers Union image courtesy of AP Photo/M. Spencer Green.
Robby Soave details the latest academic freedom violation on a college campus.
By Emma Pettit Chronicle of Higher Education Classroom norms are changing. Where’s the line, and who decides? Erica Cope admits it wasn’t a great lesson. In the fall of 2020, Cope, like faculty members across the country, was teaching virtually, from her kitchen table. None of her students — […]
Krystal and Saagar deliver more good news on the Omicron covid variant based on early data obtained from places where the variant has quickly spread and case numbers are rising
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — What students are learning about the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 may depend on where they live. In a Boston suburb in heavily Democratic Massachusetts, history teacher Justin Voldman said his students will spend the day […]
By Samantha Jones New Discourses I have a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies, but I’m not woke anymore. I write under a pseudonym because, if my colleagues were to find out about my criticisms of this field, I would be unable to find any employment in academia. That someone […]
Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, joins The Realignment to discuss the differences between debates over political correctness in the […]
Krystal and Saagar tell the story of graduate students at NYU who are paying sky high prices for tuition and living expenses that leads to colossal debt and desperate methods to pay it off
Matt Taibbi makes the case that if Democrats don’t change their tune on parental influence in school curriculum, they’re doomed in 2022.
Robby Soave makes the case that schools should not go back to virtual education, despite some teachers’ expressed interest in doing so.
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