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Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon highlights an unusual aspect of the latest round of left-wing protests. A radical left-wing activist group organizing a pro-abortion protest outside the home…
Michael DeBow writes for the Martin Center about efforts to thwart the for-profit sector in higher education. During the Obama years, the Department was dominated by people who regarded for-profit…
Joy Pullmann of the Federalist delivers bad news to fans of Common Core. Researchers the Obama administration funded to assist Common Core’s rollout recently found, to their surprise, that under…
Joy Pullmann writes at the Federalist about former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s recap of his tenure at the head of the Obama education team. President Obama’s education secretary Arne…
For starters, it looks as though Sen. Thom Tillis will support Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos, setting up a showdown vote next week in which Vice President Mike Pence…
A National Review Online editorial praises efforts on Capitol Hill to scale back federal government involvement in local school decisions. The Every Child Achieves Act would help to get the…
View in your browser. Welcome Today, the U.S. Department of Education released results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). How did North Carolina do and what are the…
Janet Lorin needs just two opening sentences in a Blooomberg Businessweek article to describe a key problem with modern American higher education. Laura Strong, a 29-year-old in suburban Chicago, owes…
Blake Neff reports for the Daily Caller on the Obama administration’s concerns surrounding college and university accountability. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a speech Monday American colleges need…
CJ’s Dan Way on U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s keynote address at N.C. Central University: It was interesting, perhaps coincidental, that Duncan chose a book titled Our Kids from which…
Carolina Journal Online reports that the N.C. House’s two-year budget plan would spend about $1 billion more than Gov. Pat McCrory’s proposal. Dan Way’s Daily Journal highlights some disturbing elements…
Hugh Hewitt‘s latest column for the Washington Examiner focuses on political implications of the Common Core school standards debate. Widespread (and very passionate) opposition to the new standards and tests…