Scaling Down Inequality
Gender bias in student evaluations of college professors diminishes considerably by changing the scale.
Gender bias in student evaluations of college professors diminishes considerably by changing the scale.
The State of Texas is arguing in Court that a school district can force a student to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.
The Ohio State University Board of Trustees has suspended football coach Urban Meyer for three games over his handling of allegations of domestic violence by an Assistant Coach dating back to 2015.
The head football coach at the University of Maryland has been suspended after reports of a “toxic environment” that led to the death of a student athlete in June.
Another Federal Judge has ruled in favor of a transgender student seeking the right to use the gender that conforms to the gender they identify with.
A Federal Judge in Oregon has rejected an efforts by a parent’s group to block a school district policy that allows transgender students to use the restroom facilities that conform to their gender identity.
A seemingly innocuous change to a newspaper style guide has some significant implications.
He thinks his Constitutional rights are being violated. They’re not.
The Trump Administration’s School Safety Commission isn’t getting off to a very good start.
We have a generation of schoolkids who aren’t even surprised when there’s a shooting at their school. That’s a problem.
A Federal Judge in Virginia has handed a significant legal victory to a student who sued their school district because they were barred form using the bathroom of the gender they identify with.
Solving the problems created by neighborhood-based schools isn’t going to be easy.
The Commission on College Basketball recommended an end to the one-and-done rule and other major reforms.
CNN reports that the Interior Secretary, who claims to be a “geologist,” merely has a geology degree.
A plurality of Americans aged 18 to 34 have no idea how many people were killed, what Auschwitz was, or how Hitler came to power.
The idea that individuals have different “learning styles” is apparently not borne out by the evidence, according to recent research.
Johnetta Benton was caught on tape in a 15-minute rant against President Trump’s campaign slogan. She ain’t wrong.
Repeated studies have demonstrated their bias against women and minorities. Why do we use them to make employment decisions?
Wisconsin-Stevens Point is shuttering 13 majors, including English, history, political science and sociology while expanding more job-oriented programs.
Yet another example of the foolishness of having firearms in the schoolhouse.
Students across the country are staging 17-minute protests at 10 am in their time zones.
Kids are more likely to be killed driving to school than shot while there. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and prevent them.
Mike Jeffcoat rejected a prospect, in writing, on account of marijuana being legal in his state, adding, “You can thank your liberal politicians.”
The faculty would like to strip away a 20-year-old honor in light of several statements in violation of the institution’s core values.
If a law enforcement officer with 30 years of experience can’t stop an active school shooter, what makes anyone think a teacher with a gun can?
President Trump is pressing the idea of arming teachers to stop shootings in schools.
The Department of Education announced yesterday that it will no longer investigate civil rights complaints from transgender students regarding bathroom access in public schools.
Two classic pieces of American Literature have been banned from the curriculum in Duluth, Minnesota. This is a mistake.
Combining universal and mandatory (and free) college-board exams with a program for targeting college recruitment of disadvantaged groups could–if coupled with a commensurate financial commitment by the state to such groups–go some distance in bringing more qualified economically disadvantaged groups into higher education.
The school district in Biloxi, Mississippi has removed ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ from the 8th-grade reading list because it “makes people uncomfortable.”
A stupid comment about Hurricane Harvey cost a Florida professor his job.
The Supreme Court ruled today that states may not exclude church-run schools from an aid program with a wholly secular purpose.
A Federal appellate court has ruled that a transgender student must be allowed to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity.
The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in a case dealing with whether Missouri can deny a religious school from participating in a program to make school playgrounds safer.
The Supreme Court has decided to return the case involving a transgender student’s right to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity to the Fourth Circuit rather than deciding it during this term.
Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration has revoked guidelines to public schools that required accommodation of transgender students.
Despite two Republican defections, Betsy DeVos was confirmed today as Secretary of Education.
Journalistic malpractice has real consequences.
In a somewhat surprising opinion from Justice Kennedy, the Supreme Court upheld the University of Texas’s race-based admissions program.
Begun, the bathroom wars have.
My latest for War on The Rocks, “Professional Military Education and the Rigor Problem, has posted.
A divided Supreme Court heard argument today in a case involving affirmative action in college admissions that is before the Court for the second time in two years.