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Claudia Longo/iStock/Getty Images Plus When hearing that many “elite” undergraduates “can’t” read books, first coming to mind could be that they’re not actually elite. (The term “pseudo-elite” suggests itself.) As for the word “can’t,” no, it’s not that these college students, often Ivy Leaguers, are illiterate. The issue is something different: conditioning.Fox News reported on the story last Thursday, writing:...

With the ongoing exodus from government schools continuing to gather momentum, a new forecast by education researchers predicts that almost one third of school-age children will be homeschooled by the year 2030. Just half of the student population will remain in government education by then, the analysts found. The organization behind the predictions, a research institute known as The Learning...

Under the guise of “helping” parents deal with stress, the Biden administration is plotting a dramatic expansion of government into the home. In short, federal authorities are seeking to take on even more responsibilities traditionally associated with the family while drugging ever larger numbers of Americans. Critics, though, are sounding the alarm. Among other concerns, opponents are warning of a...

Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries, by Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher. 849 pages with index. Cambridge University Press 2024. Although many (including this writer) will reject its conclusions, Fasteau and Fletcher’s compendium, Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries, will serve as...

Elon Musk’s interview with Donald Trump on Monday has been viewed or heard a billion times. By comparison, the typical audience on Fake Tapper’s CNN is less than a million viewers. “I heard them talk about the border extensively, and I heard them talk about the economy extensively. And that is why Trump resonates with so many people because he’s...

Racists and DEI college bureaucrats, beware. An academic turned activist is showing conservatives how to successfully shut down anti-white discrimination schemes that have become commonplace at universities and colleges across America in recent years. The strategy works. In an interview with The College Fix published on Monday, former University of Michigan economics professor Mark Perry shared the tactics he has been using to pressure...

Ron Paul The 2024 Republican platform promises that, if Donald Trump returns to the White House and Republicans gain complete control of Congress, they will reduce inflation. The platform contains some proposals, such as reducing regulations and extending the 2017 tax reductions, that may help lower prices in some sectors and spur economic growth. However, the GOP platform does not...

Government indoctrination masquerading as “education” has deliberately waged war on biblical religion, and the fruit is devastating America and its children by turning them away from God and Truth.   From chanting to the Aztec deities of cannibalism and human sacrifice in California to forcing children to denounce their “Christian privilege” in front of the class in North Carolina, government schools...

syahrir maulana/iStock/Getty Images Plus At least some of the leftists who took to social media to celebrate the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13 are regretting it.Some have resigned jobs, some have been fired, and some have been suspended, including the FBI employee who thought the deranged “memes are gold.”And once again, the Libs of TikTok website is...

Officials and teachers at government schools across the nation have been raping and sexually abusing millions of captive children, even as school districts and the dishonest media work to cover up the scandals, according to researchers. The scale of the horror dwarfs the abuse of children by Roman Catholic clergy. New research confirms that sexual misconduct by government educators revealed...

AP Images Gavin Newsom California has become the first U.S. state to prohibit school districts from requiring staff to notify parents about their child’s gender identification or sexual orientation without the child’s consent. Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill No. 1955 (dubbed “Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth Act (SAFETY Act)) into law on Monday, sparking heated reactions...

On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed Res. 165, which aims to block the Biden administration’s new Title IX rule, on a party-line vote of 210-205.  Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. The new rule, issued on April 19, 2024, extends what qualifies as discrimination based on sex to include gender identity. (READ MORE: Title IX Expansion Is...

AP Images Though President Biden didn’t completely fail in his highly anticipated post-NATO Summit news conference last night, as he did during his debate with former President Donald Trump, he didn’t do what he needed to do.Although he seemed to be in command of basic facts about foreign policy, two big gaffes immediately raised concerns. He confused Ukrainian strongman Volodymyr...

AP Images John Broomes On Tuesday, a federal judge in Topeka, Kansas, blocked new Biden administration rules on Title IX which would have greatly expanded transgender ideology in schools. U.S. District Judge John Broomes cited the recent Supreme Court decision of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which overturned the decades-old precedent known as Chevron.For decades, the administrative state has used...

In the last week, four different federal courts independently arrived at the same conclusion: Biden’s policy to impose his transgender ideology on public schools is unlawful. Biden insists, beginning with the upcoming school year, that every public school in America open its girls’ restrooms and locker rooms to boys who think they are girls. More than half our country – 27...

AP Images Jared Polis Colorado’s Democratic Governor Jared Polis signed a bill into law last week — SB 24-084 — that requires the Colorado attorney general to coordinate with the Colorado Department of Education to censor “factually inaccurate data,” as well as collaborate with organizations and community leaders to “facilitate productive and honest conversations.”Senate Bill 24-084 states: CONCERNING A REQUIREMENT...

Ron Paul American Compass, a think tank promoting a conservatism lacking even a rhetorical commitment to free markets, recently called for Republicans to support tax increases. The organization claims a GOP embrace of higher taxes will enable the uniparty’s left (Democratic) and right (Republican) wings to create a deficit reduction plan balancing tax increase with spending cuts.American Compass is correct...

Woke extremism is costing the struggling taxpayers of New York City in more ways than one. Those who pay the bills in the Big Apple are on the hook for millions of dollars after three European-descent educators sued over anti-white discrimination schemes. The lawsuit was a response to an obsession by far-left city leaders with “diversity” and ending what officials...

Flush with taxpayer cash from the federal government, state and local officials are rapidly transforming public schools into “full-service community schools” that will address far more than just “education.”  In fact, under the guise of caring for the “whole child,” these “community schools” are increasingly taking over the few remaining duties left over to parents — mental health, dental health,...

As the global war on educational liberty heats up, Johns Hopkins School of Education is launching a new “Homeschool Hub” that has experts and advocates deeply concerned. Many say it is part of the escalating effort to bring homeschooling families under government control.  The new entity is funded by advocates of taxpayer funding for private and home education. The United...