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From kindergarten to college, these are deep investigations into the misallocation of resources, school choice, and how we can fix our broken school system.
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My School Experimented with ‘Education Equity.’ It Failed.
We put high-achieving students in the same classes as their lowest-performing peers. The results have been devastating.
Ryan Normandin
Yale Students: We’re Jealous of Our Conservative Peers
Our ideas become stronger when we’re forced to defend them. We wish our university challenged us like it challenges the right wing.
Publius
Letters to the Editor: Should We Ignore Conspiracy Theories?
Plus: The pitfalls of normalizing psychedelic drugs.
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Could a Trump Presidency Cost Columbia University $3.5 Billion?
A new report by professors and alumni warns that elite universities face ‘an existential crisis.’
Frannie Block
With Trump’s Victory, Schools Offer ‘Post-Election Wellness Spaces’
Canceled classes, erased grades, and individual counseling: Universities rush to console their ‘grieving’ students.
Frannie Block
Legos, Cocoa, and Coloring Books for Georgetown Students
At the McCourt School of Public Policy, officials are offering ‘mindfulness’ options to cope with the election. The only thing missing is a blankie.
Frannie Block
Law Student Faces Expulsion for ‘Aggressive Pointing’
Title IX laws were created to protect women from discrimination. Now they’re being used to punish acts once seen as ‘completely protected speech.’
Olivia Reingold
School Choice Is Usually a Conservative Issue. Not in Kentucky.
Inner-city Democrats say state money for private education will ‘save their kids.’ Rural Republicans claim it will ‘devastate’ them. Meet the parents…
Frannie Block
Black Nationalist Gets $20 Million to Promote ‘Segregation’ in Public Schools
Sharif El-Mekki envisions a world where ‘all black students are taught by same-race teachers.’ He is backed by the Gates Foundation, NBC Universal…
Frannie Block
Penn Professor Amy Wax Punished for ‘Inconvenient Facts’
Wax was suspended for her comments about race. She tells Peter Savodnik it’s a sign our university system is ‘deteriorating in a very serious way.’
Peter Savodnik
The Return of the One-Room Schoolhouse
The single, small classroom where kids learn everything together is back—and it could be the start of a revolution.
Frannie Block
Inside America’s First-Ever Classical Jewish School
New York City parents are pulling their kids out of elite academies to enroll them in a school that promises no phones and the Pledge of Allegiance.
Peter Savodnik
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