It is hard to know which aspect of this case is most troubling: The fact a first grader has been deemed “transgendered” at such a young age or that a panel has agreed that gender-segregation of bathroom facilities creates a hostile environment.
The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens reports on a recent...
After spending time at Dartmouth College, a visiting foreign scholars translation of her experience seem to bear little resemblance to reality.
Dartmouth alum Joseph Asch exlains:
Tanja Dückers, a widely known German writer who is currently teaching at the College, gives her take on Dartmouth’s social scene in a piece in the Süddeutsche...
American courts seem overwhelmed with affirmative action, faux weapon, and gender-preference-bathroom cases.
However, a recent supreme court ruling may have a potential impact on American lifestyles, vis-à-vis medical and scientific research. Harvard’s Crimson staff writer Fatima Mirza has the details.
While many in the scientific community lauded the Supreme Court’s ruling that naturally occurring...
Women’s equality is one of America’s great achievements.
Yet 70% of American women today do not consider themselves “feminists.” In an American Enterprise Institute video, author and equity feminist Christina Hoff Sommers explains why the term is now reviled.
The video promotes Sommers’ new book, Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It...
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) official John K. DiPaolo may be the federal employee taking the most heat right now.
DiPaolo has been tasked with defending the constitutionally indefensible: The new Title IX sexual harassment rules. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) reports from a conference session at which...
Legal Insurrection has offering regular coverage of the ongoing protests in Turkey.
Columbia University undergraduates have joined the protesters in Istanbul. Tracey Wang, a Columbia Spectator Senior Staff Writer, files the following report:
Nergiz Ada Yilmaz, SEAS ’16, was in Gezi Park in Istanbul on May 31 when a thick fog started spreading...
The University of California – San Diego is academic home to some of the country’s best and brightest young scientists.
One of its students, Angel Au-Yeung, has some serious concerns about a new innovation that is about to hit the market: Google Glass.
With the advent of Google Glass — a pair of...
Students are off for the summer, hitting the beaches instead of the books.
Huffington Post contributor Alexandra Mayzler for GalTime.com offers these steps to stay sharp and ready for classes in the fall.
1. Numbers and words with friends. Students are spending a ton of time with technology. Encourage them to play vocabulary or math...
The American Enterprise Institute is launching a new Center on Higher Education Reform (CHER).
The College Fix has a summary:
Led by founding director and resident scholar Andrew P. Kelly, the center will conduct independent, data-driven research and analysis designed to inform policymaking and shape the higher education reform conversation.
“At...
For many college students, finishing degrees starts with applying for food stamps or taking advantage of campus food banks.
Paul Fain of Inside Higher Ed has some information on a nonprofit group that directs financially strapped...
File this story under “Science is Fun”!
Perhaps it’s every kid’s dream – as they slave away at their obligatory school science project – that their findings will rock the scientific community.
Well, it just so happens – that happened!
A group of ninth-graders at a school in Denmark tried...
We recently covered the fact that marketplace forces are driving students to opt for STEM (science-technology-engineering-math) degrees.
Eric Schwarz,the Co-Founder and CEO of Citizen Schools, offers another way to inspire more young Americans to choose STEM via a new program, US2020.
President Clinton joined US2020 and its leading corporate partners in announcing a...
When students complain college seems like prison, scholars at one institution are being quite literal.
In the hallowed halls of Columbia University, a nest of ex-cons — who have served time for murder, attempted murder, robbery and assault — hold court on their unique brand of social justice for admir...
After spreading the love internationally on a whirlwind tour of Europe, it looks like our First Lady is going to get a little love from a California School district.
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) board voted unanimously to name an area elementary school in first lady Michelle Obama’s honor, Tuesday.
Jeff...
We recently noted that legislators block Soros funded “investigative journalism” center at the University of Wisconsin -Madison.
Brandon Dutcher, vice president for policy at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, offers further analysis based on experience with his state’s institutions.
Wisconsin is a state where the Republicans at times can actually be bold. Doubtless...
We recently reported that companies were facing lawsuits focused on unfair business practices, based on their handling of unpaid internships.
However, that isn’t stopping some firms from promoting the benefits...
Sports-loving American recognize that there is a friendly football rivalry between the Army, Navy and Air Force Football Teams.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller takes a look for what it means to the Pentagon budget.
The three highest-compensated employees on the Pentagon payroll are the Army, Navy and Air Force football coaches,...
Funding a college education is something many American parents worry about even before their children are born.
The Wall Street Journal gathered a group of industry, academic and business leaders to discuss this question, which relates to a recent article that discussed alternatives to 529 plans for college savings.
Rick Ferri:...
The compensation scandal centering on New York University loaning millions of dollars to select faculty and administrators for vacation homes purchases is simply the latest symptom of college bureaucratic excess.
Kevin Kiley of Inside Higher Ed puts the story into a larger, and more troubling, context:
But the revelation this week that the...
Conservative stalwart Senator Ted Cruz has been busy promoting free market principles to young Americans.
Recently, he told students at Hillsdale college that, “Economic freedom and the prosperity it generates reduces poverty like nothing else”. Now, the Campus Reform team has captured his response to a question regarding a pending Internet...
If an education administrator’s dreams become reality, North Carolina is poised to have the best student-to-teacher ratio in the country.
North Carolina legislators probably won’t act on a proposal by the elected supervisor of the state’s public school system to exempt teachers from the burden of personal income taxes.
June Atkinson, North Carolina’s...
We recently reported that the Chicago Public School system plans is closing nearly 50 elementary schools.
A clue to why the school system’s numbers are declining can be found in this story from The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens:
Well over 500 Chicago public school teachers were unceremoniously sacked Friday afternoon. A...
