A new report on the UC system documents the plague of politicized classrooms. The problem is national in scope. Mar 30, 2012 WSJ By PETER BERKOWITZ The politicization of higher education by activist professors and compliant university administrators deprives students of the opportunity to acquire knowledge and refine their minds. It also erodes the nation’s [...]

Mar 25, 2012 by Donna Krache, CNN (CNN) An investigative report published in Sunday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution found indications of standardized test cheating in school systems throughout the U.S. The seven-month long investigation of testing data examined 1.6 million records from almost 70,000 public schools nationwide. Suspicious score increases, high numbers of erasures and other irregularities [...]

Mar 22, 2012 A Virginia middle school teacher recently forced his students to support President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign by conducting opposition research in class against the Republican presidential candidates. The 8th grade students, who attend Liberty Middle School in Fairfax County, were required to seek out the vulnerabilities of Republican presidential hopefuls and forward [...]

Mar 22, 2012 WSJ By JOSH MITCHELL and MAYA JACKSON-RANDALL The amount Americans owe on student loans is far higher than earlier estimates and could lead some consumers to postpone buying homes, potentially slowing the housing recovery, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Total student debt outstanding appears to have surpassed $1 trillion late last year, said [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Sunday, March 11, 2012 WASHINGTON — Two policies of the Obama administration illustrate an axiom: As government expands, its lawfulness contracts. Consider the administration’s desire to continue funding UNESCO and to develop a national curriculum for primary and secondary education. In 1994, Congress stipulated that no U.S. funds shall go [...]

Published March 10, 2012 FoxNews.com For-profit schools would be required to meet new standards covering everything from drop-out rates to transparency, under a proposal by senators who claim the colleges are exploiting members of the U.S. military for their government education benefits.  Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., introduced the bill this past week, claiming the Post-9/11 [...]

Mar 1,2012 Regulation: Every time government tries to make something more “affordable” for consumers, it makes it more unaffordable. Soaring college tuition is just the latest example. After creating housing and medical bubbles in the name of “affordability,” Washington now wants to make college more affordable. How? By subsidizing it even more. Yet new studies [...]

Feb 29, 2012 Dennis Prager As high school seniors throughout America will be receiving acceptance letters to colleges within the next month, it would be nice for parents to meditate on what they are getting for the $20–$50,000 they will pay each year. The United States is no better than any other country, and in [...]

By Terence Jeffrey (Archive) · Wednesday, February 22, 2012 When two schools meet in a basketball game, the winner is indisputable. One team outscores the other. The same is true in certain types of academic competition. When students take standardized national tests, students from some schools outscore students from others. In the most recent round [...]

By Walter E. Williams (Archive) · Wednesday, February 22, 2012 If one manages to graduate from high school without the rudiments of algebra, geometry and trigonometry, there are certain relatively high-paying careers probably off-limits for life — such as careers in architecture, chemistry, computer programming, engineering, medicine and certain technical fields. For example, one might [...]