Education

New York City has been cutting programs for gifted and talented students and changing admissions at specialized high schools.

Yiatin Chiu's 26-year-old daughter isn’t thrilled her mother is suing the New York State Department of Education.

This year, California Legislators tried to create new criminal penalties for parents who “harass” school board officials or disrupt school board meetings.

Shouting could be heard just outside the Supreme Court one Thursday afternoon in June, as two groups of protestors gathered in response to the Justices’ latest ruling.

From the moment President Joe Biden announced the student loan forgiveness program on August 24, 2022, it set off alarm bells.

A liberal consensus has settled on the view that American schools must be more thoroughly integrated before black and Hispanic students can perform at the level of their white peers. The New York Times editorial board, for instance, recently described the city’s elite high schools as “profoundly segregated,” a state of affairs that calls to mind “the spirit of Jim Crow.” Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose long-form reporting on the subject earned her a MacArthur Genius Grant last year, detailed her experience as a black mother trying to find a school for her daughter in an “intensely segregated” system.

Imagine telling a nine-year-old boy he can’t continue at his elementary school because of the color of his skin. That’s a conversation St. Louis mom La’Shieka White had with her son Edmund Lee.

“I walked into Stuyvesant High School and I thought I was in Chinatown,” Milady Baez, then-deputy chancellor of the Department of Education in New York City, complained to colleagues at a 2018 meeting.

When Biology Professor Bret Weinstein was threatened and harassed at Evergreen State College for his opinions about diversity and inclusion on campus, he felt like he was living in some sort of dystopian nightmare.

Historically, there has been a popular image of Asian-Americans that is best described as “nerdy” and “academic.” Think Audrey Hepburn’s oversized-glasses-wearing-heavily-accented-nerdy neighbor in Breakfast at Tiffany’s or the socially awkward Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles who is criticized for his foreignness.

The large auditorium was mostly empty when the Fairfax County School Board held its public hearing in May.

The declaration of Independence famously declared the universal principle that “all men are created equal.”

Our clients never asked the elites to come save them, but the elites came anyway. From coast to coast, minorities’ unwelcome champions have been working hard to bake racial discrimination back into the law, ironically, in the name of equality.

As soon as she heard that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio had appointed Richard Carranza as the city’s new chancellor of education, Wai Wah Chin was worried.

When the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed, most political observers saw it as socialism’s swan song.

When it comes to intolerance, campus administrators have become innovators, turning the marketplace of ideas into an ideological breadline. Postage-stamp-size free speech zones, vague speech codes, and speaker disinvita- tions are driving a national conversation about intellectual intolerance on campus. There is no shortage of examples of the campus speech crisis in action.

The struggle for liberty is old, yet it must be continually renewed—because the struggle is never-ending. As the world moves slowly, fitfully, and yet inexorably toward a state of increased liberty, we must always recall Ronald Reagan’s words: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”  Different generations have had to employ different means of creating and defending liberty. Great philosophers like John Locke provided the intellectual ammunition to the warriors for liberty in the 17th century. The Revolutionary generation set down stirring principles and a constitutional framework. The generation that followed the Civil War extended those principles to even more Americans, especially through the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Lashawn Robinson's oldest son, Jarod, has missed out on Hartford, Connecticut’s public magnet school lottery year after year, even though the school has the space to take him. Once a student who loved school and excelled at it, years of bullying and poor education at his neighborhood school have slowly drained the boy’s academic vigor. The reason? He’s black.

After a rising senior, J.P. Krause, won his senior class presidency election in a landslide, the Vero Beach school administration punished J.P. for a humorous campaign speech he offered the day before the election. They removed him from the presidency and gave him detention.