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Is College Accreditation Constitutional? – WSJ
The University of North Carolina’s board of governors recently decided to create a School of Civic Life and Leadership, dedicated to principles of free speech in higher education. The resulting controversy has exposed an underappreciated…
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The Tyranny of the DEI Bureaucracy
Critical race theory is becoming institutionalized across American universities, and a major reason is the educational bureaucracy. Most universities now have offices for diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, that exercise a broad writ…
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My Struggle Session at Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School’s website touts its “collegial culture” in which “collaboration and the open exchange of ideas are essential to life and learning.” Then there’s the culture I experienced when I visited Stanford last week. I had been…
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Where’s Brian Kemp on School Choice?
March 16, 2023 6:39 pm ET
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp…
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Oklahoma Strikes Down Bill Aiming To End Corporal Punishment For Disabled Students
Oklahoma lawmakers struck down a bill on Tuesday that, if passed, would have ended the use of corporal punishment on disabled students.Corporal punishment is defined in the bill as a “deliberate infliction of physical pain by hitting,…
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Princeton Upsets Arizona: Why Your March Madness Bracket Is Packed With Business Lessons
March Madness is a delightfully inefficient market. Every year, a selection committee gathers to place a value on 68 college-basketball teams, and fans make predictions based on all sorts of information available to them. Every year, they…
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Florida bill targeting “diversity, equity, or inclusion” on college campuses advances to…
The Florida state House this week advanced a bill that would ban state colleges and universities from using funds to "promote, support, or maintain any programs or campus activities that espouse diversity, equity, or inclusion or…
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NY kids’ COVID learning loss: another union-wrought tragedy
Thanks to state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for flagging the disaster that “remote education” wrought for New York fourth-graders, costing them the equivalent of a year of learning.
The drops in New York from…
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Texas announces takeover of Houston schools, stirring anger
HOUSTON >> Texas officials today announced a state takeover of Houston’s nearly 200,000-student public school district, the eighth-largest in the country, acting on years of threats and angering Democrats who assailed the move as…
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