The Justice Department and the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights have now effectively defined dating and sex education as “sexual harassment.”

The definition is found in a May 9 Title IX Letter of Findings and Resolution Agreement involving the University of Montana. In a radical departure from Title IX jurisprudence, the...

The U.S. Department of Education featured a quote from mass-murdering dictator Mao Zedong on its website.

Mao, the longtime Communist dictator of China, killed up to 60 million people through executions, torture, and the government-created famines of the abortive “Great Leap Forward.”

As George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley

We live in a culture where harsh but truthful criticism, or exposure of wrongdoing, is viewed by some as “bullying,” especially when it affects someone’s inflated “self-esteem.”

For example, “DePaul University has punished a student for publicizing the names of fellow students who admitted to vandalizing his organization’s pro-life display,” classifying his...

Schools such as Tarrant County College have banned “empty holster” protests in favor of gun rights, which school officials perceive as somehow threatening.

Never mind that such symbolic expression is protected by Supreme Court rulings like Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969), as the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education notes....

Self-control, not self-esteem, leads to academic success, researchers have found. Indeed, teaching self-esteem actually harms students’ achievement and work ethic.

“In one study, university students who’d earned C, D and F grades ‘received encouragement aimed at boosting their self-worth.’ They did worse than students with similar grades whose self-esteem had been left...

In a recent column, George Will discussed how college students have been disciplined for racial or discriminatory “harassment” for constitutionally protected expression, such as reading a history book about ugly past racial events, or discussing unpleasant truths about racial or religious matters:

In 2007, Keith John Sampson, a middle-aged student working his...

We earlier chronicled how perverse federal financial aid policies encourage colleges to jack up tuition.

Recently, the Obama Administration came up with something even worse. It announced a new financial aid policy that will effectively bail out low-quality, high-tuition colleges and especially law...

Suing schools and colleges has nothing to do with supporting our troops.

But that didn’t stop Senators from seeking to add an amendment, SA 3215, to the 2013 Defense Authorization bill on Thursday, containing provisions that would overturn two Supreme Court rulings in order to promote such lawsuits. The amendment, proposed by...

On November 15, a federal appeals court, dividing along ideological lines in an 8-to-7 ruling, struck down a provision of the Michigan state constitution prohibiting racial preferences in state college admissions, in Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action v. Regents of the University of Michigan.

Voters approved the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative in...

The Obama Administration has avidly attacked certain constitutional rights.

In one Supreme Court case, it argued that the government had the power to ban a non-profit corporation from publishing a book critical of a political candidate (the Supreme Court rejected this argument in a 5-to-4 vote, over a dissent by the liberal...

Under pressure from the Education Department, which investigated it over “racial disparities” and “disparate impact,” the Oakland, California, school system has agreed to impose “targeted reductions” in “suspensions for African American students, Latino students, and students receiving special education services; and African American students suspended for defiance.” See Agreement to Resolve...

“Nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don’t make academics a priority,” according to a 2011 study discussed in USA Today. “36% showed little” gain after four years. Although education spending has risen in ...

The Washington Times recently took note of the burgeoning higher education bubble:

The cost of a college education has soared far in excess of the cost of health care. This is in spite of — or,...

Many colleges, such as the University of Delaware, have adopted ridiculously broad definitions of bullying that reach constitutionally protected speech, as UCLA law professor

In response to a film that mocked Mohammed, liberal professors have called for restrictions on anti-Islam speech in the U.S. The Egyptian government, MSNBC journalists, and a professor called for prosecution of the film’s producers. Prominent left-leaning law professors have similarly advocated that such speech be restricted, citing customary international law....