Mr. Petri’s bill of college subsidies.
Mar 13, 2010

In a nearby letter, Republican Congressman Tom Petri writes that we have been “sold a bill of goods on student loans.” Our sin is to oppose a government takeover of college financing, which will take a giant leap forward if Congress jams its pending student-loan changes on to [...]

The notion of objective truth has been abandoned and the peer review process gives scholars ample opportunity to reward friends and punish enemies.
Mar 13, 2010
By PETER BERKOWITZ
Last fall, emails revealed that scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England and colleagues in the U.S. and around the globe deliberately [...]

Texas board endorses conservative-backed curriculum
By GARY SCHARRER
Mar 13, 2010
AUSTIN — The State Board of Education tentatively approved new standards for social studies Friday with members divided along party lines — some blasting them as a fraud and conservative whitewash, others praising them as a tribute to the Founding Fathers that rightly portrays America as an [...]

By Michael Reagan (Archive) · Thursday, March 11, 2010
Today, Washington is so focused on expanding the size and influence of our federal government at the expense of taxpayers that they are overlooking one of the greatest security risks facing our nation — our failing education system.
Our broken education system is failing America’s children while [...]

By Thomas Sowell (Archive) · Wednesday, March 10, 2010
A woman with a petition went among the crowds attending a state fair, asking people to sign her petition demanding the banning of dihydroxymonoxide. She said it was in our lakes and streams, and now it was in our sweat and urine and tears.
She collected hundreds [...]

In no other profession are workers so insulated from accountability.
By Evan Thomas and Pat Wingert | NEWSWEEK

Published Mar 6, 2010

The relative decline of American education at the elementary- and high-school levels has long been a national embarrassment as well as a threat to the nation’s future. Once upon a time, American students tested better than any [...]

Federal testing has narrowed education and charter schools have failed to live up to their promise.
Mar 9, 2010
By DIANE RAVITCH
I have been a historian of American education since 1975, when I received my doctorate from Columbia. I have written histories, and I’ve also written extensively about the need to improve students’ knowledge of history, literature, [...]

What else may go into ‘reconciliation.’
Mar 8, 2010
Everyone knows Democrats are planning to use the budget reconciliation process to get ObamaCare through the Senate. Less well known is that Democrats are plotting add-ons to that bill to get other liberal priorities enacted—programs that could never attract 60 votes.
One of these controversial measures rewrites the Higher [...]

But teachers unions are still trying to stop their growth.
Mar 7, 2010

By JASON L. RILEY
The Harlem Armory in upper Manhattan was built in 1933 to honor the celebrated 369th Regiment—also known as the Harlem Hellfighters, the first black regiment to fight in World War I. On a recent Saturday, however, the Art Deco edifice at [...]

Textbook economics is “a bizarre point of view”–according to the textbook’s author!
Mar 5, 2010
By JAMES TARANTO
Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman takes note in his New York Times column of what he calls “the incredible gap that has opened up between the parties”:
Today, Democrats and Republicans live in different universes, both intellectually and morally.
“What Democrats believe,” [...]