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Lawsuit Targets Anti-Israel Campus Leaders for ‘Aiding and Abetting’ Hamas
Complaint alleges student organizations are providing ‘material support’ to terror groups.
Maya Sulkin
I’m a Liberal at a ‘Conservative’ University. How Did I End Up Here?
My students at UATX know they can disagree passionately with their classmates—a more meaningful definition of ‘safe space’ than what I encountered…
Boris Fishman
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Tells Columbia How to Get Its $400M Back
Ivy League college told to ban masks, expel or suspend students who promote Jew-hate, and put a department under ‘academic receivership’ for five years.
Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia
The cuts are “only the beginning,” according to Trump’s antisemitism task force.
Maya Sulkin and Gabe Kaminsky
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Opens Antisemitism Investigation Into the University of California System
The Department of Justice says one of the largest public university systems in the country may be discriminating ‘against employees who are or are…
Gabe Kaminsky
Trump to Columbia: Fix Campus Antisemitism or Lose $5 Billion in Federal Funds
Fed probe ‘is as serious as can be,’ says task force member. ‘I have the Department of Education guys texting me every day asking when they can start…
Maya Sulkin
Deborah Lipstadt: Why I Won’t Teach at Columbia
I was Biden’s antisemitism envoy. I had been considering an academic appointment at the Ivy League institution. Not anymore.
Deborah Lipstadt
Welcome to Hamassachusetts
‘Rampant and ubiquitous antisemitism’ is making its way into the largest teachers union in New England, lawmakers say.
Frannie Block and Will Sussman
EXCLUSIVE: A High Schooler Graduated with a 3.4 GPA. He Couldn’t Even Read.
Now, the Tennessee teen is suing his school district, Frannie Block reports.
Frannie Block
How American Educators Are Conning Kids
As U.S. students keep falling behind, educators keep lowering standards. ‘It’s like telling everyone they’re a great swimmer when you know half of us…
Frannie Block
Betsy DeVos: Shut Down the Department of Education
I served as the 11th U.S. secretary of education. That’s how I know it’s beyond repair.
Betsy DeVos
Deporting ‘Pro-Jihadist’ Students: Censorship or Good Governance?
Ilya Shapiro and Robert Shibley debate Trump’s executive orders on antisemitism.
Ilya Shapiro and Robert Shibley
Inside Columbia University’s ‘Museum of Terror’
A recent exhibit presented the tools and planning behind the Hamilton Hall break-in. A speaker called for a ‘Zionist-free NYC.’
Maya Sulkin
Should Fifth Graders Learn What It Means to Be Transgender?
Ben Kawaller meets an education activist who wants kids to be taught that sex is assigned and gender is a social construct.
Ben Kawaller
2M
How Jonathan Haidt Won the Fight Against Smartphones in Schools
His book has gained bipartisan fans from Barack Obama to Bill Gates to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Olivia Reingold reports on the Haidt effect.
Olivia Reingold
A Mom Asked for Public School Board Records. They Charged Her $33 Million.
Parents are suing schools to find out what their kids are learning. Schools are suing parents to shut them up. How did we get here?
Josh Code and Frannie Block
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
How to ‘Make Your Campus Palestinian’
At the largest gathering for Palestine in the U.S., college students are taught how to take the anti-Israel movement to the next level. Olivia Reingold…
Olivia Reingold
It’s Time for the Government to Abolish ‘Race’
Since 1977, the federal government has sorted Americans into bogus racial categories. Why?
Michael Lind
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.
The Free Press
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
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