The Case for Holding Students Accountable

Students work harder and better when they're held accountable and have a direct stake in succeeding - something they don't necessarily have now.

Teacher Hacks And Their Strikes

Teacher unions are calling strikes in several states over ostensibly lower pay - reflecting the hackeramas they created with inflated benefits packages etc. It also generates perpetual sham grievances about teacher pay.

The Success Of School Choice

The leftwing Center For American Progress attacks school choice. Like larger leftism it dos so by being dishonest. School choice works.

Thought Controlled Attack On Privatized Schooling

The Atlantic published yet another specious attack on the concept of privatized schooling with a "thought experiment" that glosses over the manifest educational failures, economic inefficiency, and propensity for imposing thought control of public schools, and maligning private schools even though by all standards they are better.

Betsy DeVos Attacks The Bureaucracy Of Education

Betsy DeVos is attacking the core problem of her department - the fact that Washington refuses to admit it never knows better.

The Hypocrisy Of "Free Speech"

Colleges practice the ancient fraud of extolling "free speech" for themselves and their ilk, not for anyone else.

The Education Hackerama Unhinged

The American Federation of Teachers erupts by accusing choice advocates of (nonexistent) racism based on a fraudulent piece by the Center for American Progress. Meanwhile Betsy DeVos attacked college leftism at Harvard.

Apprenticeship Programs In The New Economy

In a knowledge-based economy, early employment gains with vocational training may lead to later problems when specific skills become obsolete and workers lack the ability to adjust to a changed economic environment. Apprenticeship programs offer a way out.

The Redressing Of The Self-Esteem Movement

Social Emotional Learning is just the discredited self-esteem movement redressed, and like before will have no real scientific foundation.

Study: Obama-Era Guidance Undermined Its Own Aims

"An Obama administration guidance, sidestepping law to serve an albeit well-meaning social agenda, may have deepened the very injustice it was meant to correct. Haven't I heard this before?"

Skills Bills And Vocational Education

A look at state governors and their approach to vocational education.

The Education Hackerama Vs Betsy DeVos

School choice has been discrediting the mythology pushed by education hackeramas - which explains the vehemence and idiocy of their opposition to Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.

UPDATE: DeVos won confirmation in a vote that reflects the Democratic Party's refusal to work for any kind of good.

Also worth examining is this piece on Detroit public schools and also this piece on Milwaukee schools.

'Sanctuary Campuses' Invite a Federal Standoff

Grandstanding universities play with fire and thus will get burned

In the wake of Donald Trump's election, many colleges and universities vowed to become sanctuary campuses for students in the country illegally. The matter will take on a special urgency in the event that soon-to-be President Trump repeals the executive-ordered Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which deferred the enforcement of immigration laws for those who came here as children. The practical consequences of a sanctuary campus policy remain murky (as is often the case when college administrators take direction from student protesters). Will openly harboring illegal aliens jeopardize colleges' federal funding, for instance? In an age of funding-backed executive overreach puppeteering campus policy, it would be dangerous to assume otherwise.

The Unreality Of College

A disturbingly high percentage of college students has turned to rioting and panic in reaction to Donald Trump's election, and it reflects the infantization of students by universities, thus leaving them woefully unpepared for the real world, a continuing reflection that "progressive" thought it neither progressive nor thought.

Some Pieces On Charter Schools

Charter schools are getting more controversial - even as they prove themselves more effective. A compilation of pieces -

Unlike Their Neighbors: Charter School Student Composition Across States

The NY Times - as usual - is wrong, and how media coverage turned against charter schools. 

Students in NYC get more time in charter schools.

The left's war on minorities, from 2014 plus the demonization of Walmart support of charter schools.

A look at how they are reinventing local education control.

The Brookings Institute weighs in.

Teachers Unions Continue To Prove They're Not Worth It

Chicago teachers are ready to strike for the third time in five years because they have to help pay for their own entitlements. It proves anew that teachers unions are not worth it.

The Re-Segregation Of Universities

The ideology of leftism is creating a new segregation, notably at CSU-LA.

The Bogus Student Debt Crisis

It's become the latest media scare story - student debt. The media and Democratic politicians (notably Bernie The Bozo Sanders) proclaim it a crisis. The actual data, though, indicates it isn't.

"A growing body of economic literature supports....the idea that federal student aid itself is responsible for the rise in college tuition."

Opposition To Charter Schools Isn't Funny

An ugly rant by TV comedian-anchor John Oliver attacks charter schools and gets it all wrong.

Single Sex Education Works

Mixed-sex education doesn't work as well.