Category: education

Tensions Rise in Virginia Schools Over Racial Issues

In January 2022, on his first day in office, Virginia’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, showed race antagonists the schoolhouse door. During the campaign, Youngkin had promised voters he would end what he called the “Inherently Divisive Policies, Programs, Training, and Curricula” centered on race. Conservative parents had been protesting ideologically charged “antiracism” training in schools…


College Industrial Complex’s Left-wing Lies

Commentary Families saving for college and encouraging their kids to aim for the top are getting scammed by the left-wing college industrial complex. Colleges distort and outright lie about who gets accepted, education quality, and what it costs. If they were selling auto loans and used the same deceptive tactics, they’d be in jail. Columbia…


Can the Right Make a Long Countermarch Through the Institutions?

Commentary Is the Right commencing a long countermarch through the institutions, including the very one—the academy—from which the Left’s own long march began? Judging by the distress shown by some in the educational establishment, and like-minded corporate media, regarding higher-education reform efforts in North Carolina and Florida, one might get the impression that the countermarch is not…


Michael Zwaagstra: More Money Doesn’t Necessarily Produce a Better Education

Commentary The Alberta government is providing $10 million to help Grade 1 students catch up in math and reading. This is on top of a previously announced $110 million over the next three years for students experiencing mental and academic challenges resulting from the pandemic. Other provinces are also opening the spending taps. Last fall,…


A College Degree Is Not a Credential

Commentary Mark S. (withholding the real name) worked four years to earn his B.A. in economics and then went ahead to get an M.A. in finance, which took another two years. In total he spent $250,000, half of which he borrowed and still owes, plus the income foregone for the time he spent is at…


Why Some California Schools Have 70 Percent Failing Rates | Gloria Romero

“Seventy percent of African American students are not reading at proficiency levels. It’s higher in math—it’s about 80 percent.” Siyamak sits down with Gloria Romero, former state senator and first female majority leader of the state Senate in California’s history. …


Millions of Students Can Change Names, Pronouns Without Parental Consent, but Not Take Over-the-Counter Meds: Report

Some of the largest school districts in the United States currently require parental consent for students to take over-the-counter medication but not for them to change their names or pronouns, according to a new report. Published Feb. 22 by the nonprofit Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI), the report notes that such is…


LIVE at 11AM ET: Biden’s New Culture War; ‘Equity’ Orders Are Unconstitutional and Un-American

The White House’s new executive orders pit Americans against each other. Does an arrogant and out-of-touch ruling party not know that division and chaos are sure to follow? Or is that the plan? In this hard-hitting two-part episode of Over the Target Live, Lee Smith speaks with Gene Hamilton and Terry Schilling about the political…


LIVE NOW: Biden’s New Culture War; ‘Equity’ Orders Are Unconstitutional and Un-American

The White House’s new executive orders pit Americans against each other. Does an arrogant and out-of-touch ruling party not know that division and chaos are sure to follow? Or is that the plan? In this hard-hitting two-part episode of Over the Target Live, Lee Smith speaks with Gene Hamilton and Terry Schilling about the political…


Biden’s New Culture War; ‘Equity’ Orders Are Unconstitutional and Un-American

The White House’s new executive orders pit Americans against each other. Does an arrogant and out-of-touch ruling party not know that division and chaos are sure to follow? Or is that the plan? In this hard-hitting two-part episode of Over the Target Live, Lee Smith speaks with Gene Hamilton and Terry Schilling about the political…