By Walter E. Williams (Archive) · Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Larry Sand’s article “No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can’t Read” — written for The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, based in Raleigh, N.C. — blames schools of education for the decline in America’s education. Education professors drum into students that they should not [...]

By Linda Chavez (Archive) · Friday, January 20, 2012 When President Obama gives his state of the union address next week, you can count on his making a big pitch for education. No president in recent memory has failed to tout expanded educational opportunity as the panacea for all that ails us — and Obama [...]

By Thomas Sowell (Archive) · Wednesday, January 18, 2012 One of the ways of trying to reduce the vast disparities in economic success, which are common in countries around the world, is by making higher education more widely available, even for people without the money to pay for it. This can be both a generous [...]

January 15, 2012 By Janet Tassel It was the first week in October in Newton, an upscale suburb of Boston, and Tony Pagliuso’s daughter, a sophomore at Newton South High School, was visibly disturbed. When Tony asked her the problem, she showed him a passage from the chapter she was assigned in her World History [...]

January 6, 2012 By Cindy Simpson The obstacles in Barack Obama’s path to the presidency have been overcome, or covered over.  Rather than merely avoiding the contentious question of Obama’s “natural born” eligibility, America’s academic establishment has muffled discussion on the inextricably related issue of citizenship law in our country, in the greater context of [...]

By Matt Smith, CNN updated 7:45 PM EST, Wed December 28, 2011 (CNN) — Public schools in Tucson, Arizona, face millions of dollars in penalties after a ruling that the district’s Mexican-American studies program violates state law. An administrative law judge found the program’s curriculum was teaching Latino history and culture “in a biased, political, [...]

By Jeff Jacoby (Archive) · Saturday, December 24, 2011 If racial preferences in higher education were good for racial minorities in higher education, we surely would have seen the definitive evidence of it by now. Instead, a widening shelf of empirical research suggests that the opposite is true — that affirmative action in academia is [...]

By Catherine Herridge Published December 21, 2011 FoxNews.com Despite Saudi Arabia’s promises to clean up textbooks in the kingdom, recent editions continue to raise alarms in the West over jihadist language. The recent editions were obtained by the Institute for Gulf Affairs in Washington, D.C., and the translations were first provided to Fox News. “This [...]

By Jeff Jacoby (Archive) · Monday, December 19, 2011 When the Supreme Court, in the 2003 case of Grutter v. Bollinger, narrowly upheld the use of racial preferences at the University of Michigan Law School, it emphasized that such preferences were barely tolerable under the Constitution. They could be used only as a last resort, [...]

By Arnold Ahlert (Archive) · Friday, December 16, 2011 One of the oldest economic maxims, “if you subsidize something, you get more of it” has created the next trillion dollar-plus bubble for which American taxpayers will be on the hook. The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education discovered that published college tuition and fees increased 439 percent [...]