A couple of months ago, we reported that the Los Angeles Unified School District’s iPad giveaway program was rife with problems, including students who managed to bypass site security protections.
The teachers are now chiming in, and the grades are not good.
Only 36 percent of Los Angeles public school teachers who responded...
What’s a conservative parent to do when their children are being taught by liberal professors at a pricey, progressive institution?
On the Fox News Channels popular The Five, one of the host had sage advice.
Well, on Friday’s The Five, The Five, Eric Bolling...
The Democrats in the US Senate recently detonated the “Nuclear Option”, killing the filibuster for all practical purposes, even if superficially only as to non-Supreme Court nominees.
Brown University student Zach Ingber thinks the act just killed the “soul of the Senate”.
…The nuclear option is also disastrous because it moves the American...
We have already begun reporting incidents at schools that involve push-back against religiously themed Christmas celebrations.
Those who don’t like faith-oriented lessons in public schools may wish to redirect their efforts to some Common Core lesson plans focusing on President Barack Obama.
The school lesson plan and accompanying visual presentation was created by...
The state of Pennsylvania’s university system is bracing for further cuts, to counter declining enrollments and state budget slashes.
Inside Higher Ed’s Ry Rivard has the details:
…In the last few years, the universities have shed 5 percent of their permanent work force and discontinued or frozen new enrollment to 198 academic programs....
Despite the fact Barack Obama declared Mission Accomplished on the healthcare.gov website, his popularity is rapidly decreasing as Americans discover he is a Potemkin President.
University of St. Thomas student Vladimir Davidiuk takes a look at Obama’s entire political history, and wonders why people are actually shocked by the recent developments.
I wonder...
The fact that Education Secretary Arne Duncan had to play the race card to challenge Common Core skeptics offers a clue that the program is another implementation failure by the administration.
Now, citizen groups are urging a conservative star to openly oppose the new education standard.
Tea Party and conservative groups across the...
We recently reported the tragic story of Yale University professor Samuel See, who was arrested on charges of fighting police officers, then taken to a jail where he died the next day.
Further investigation into the professor’s life revealed that he was pursuing a second career on the side.
The Yale prof also...
As the Christmas buying season officially kicks off with this week’s “Black Friday”, University of Kansas student Lyndsey Havens offers her perspective on digital purchases.
Back when playing the game “Never Have I Ever” was fun and considerably entertaining, I would always start with the same one. “Never have I ever stolen...
A progressive professor at the Massachusetts College of Art received hate mail after after a satirical story broke on many leading sites, including Instapundit (who correctly observed that it was a parody).
A liberal professor has received hate mail after a plethora of conservative news sites falsely reported that he had told...
Each year, the religious aspects of the holiday season become a bigger target from scroogey activists.
A nominee for this year’s most egregious example comes from a South Carolina school.
A public charter school in the northern part of South Carolina will allow students from the seventh through 11th grades to perform religious...
Add University of Connecticut student Brian McCarty to the list of young Americans unhappy with Obamacare.
President Obama’s repeated claim that “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan” has come back to haunt him in recent weeks as millions of Americans received cancellation notices stating their plans did not...
Too often, conservatives are smeared as being against clean air or clean water.
However, University of Colorado – Colorado Springs student Jonathan Toman shows how conservative policies actually compliment environmentalism.
I used to think I was an anomaly. I identify as a conservative in many of my views, yet I am also very...
The focus of news reports related to Obamacare stress the enormous problems associated with the exchange websites.
Wabash College student Christian Lopac thinks it is also important to address the underlying philosphy: Placing healthcare in the hands of the government is unwise because of the inefficiencies that government always brings with it
…Let...
Cornell University is offering an innovative new program that will allow geeky coders to become suave business leaders,
Next spring, the university’s Johnson Graduate School of Management will launch a one-year M.B.A. designed to give engineers and software developers a grounding in management skills. The combination is crucial, employers say, as information...
After speaking at an event at Salt Lake Community College, a Deseret News article said Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love publicly disagreed with conservative tactics and rejected the “Tea Party”.
Love recently clarified those remarks; it seems the reporter wasn’t terribly accurate in their interpretation.
Originally titled, “Mia Love rejects tea party label,...
Kean University’s President is handing out a big lump of coal to many tenure-hopefuls this holiday season (hat-tip, Instapundit).
Kean University’s president will ask the institution’s board next month to reject two-thirds of the professors up...
At the end of the year, many businesses look at their budgets and figure out what needs to be cut for next year.
Colleges and universities are no different. Yet, you would think that essential classes like English and physics would be safe from the chopping block.
Not in today’s...
A senseless diversity drama is playing out on the campus of Columbia University, and student Stephen Snowder offers a critical review.
All right Columbia, it’s time to have a talk. None of you are going to listen to me, but I’m out of here in 30 days(ish) so I don’t care.
Yesterday in...
It looks like Professor Jacobson has reason to be even more proud of his school.
The Cornell Daily Sun was recently selected as the “#1 Student Newspaper”. Now, the American Institute of Economic Research has chosen Ithaca as the country’s “Best College Town”.
Last week, the American Institute of Economic Research released its...
The future is not looking good for many of the nation’s underfunded pension plans, many of which are headed for bankruptcy.
Joining the list of pension programs running short is the university pension fund for the state of Illinois. Breitbart contributor Warner Todd Hudson files this report.
The publicly funded university pension system...
Tradition is an important component of Thanksgiving celebrations.
One tradition that campus progressives have forgotten is that the younger generation often chaffs against principles imposed by their elders. The spate of theme parties featuring race and cultural stereotypes should be enough to indicate that “diversity programs” are not working quite as their...
