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Antisemitism Investigations Hit Three Big Public School Districts
A House committee warns Fairfax County, Virginia; Berkeley, California; and Philadelphia that they could lose federal funding.
Frannie Block
The College Kids Who Can’t Do Basic Math
More than 10 percent of new students at a prestigious California university are taking math that covers what they should have learned as far back as…
Tanner Nau
I’m Betting $100 Million on a New University
The incentive structure of higher education is broken. My gift to the University of Austin is meant to change that—by tying its success to the…
Jeff Yass
Want to See Campus Bias? Open the Syllabus.
We studied millions of college syllabi. Across each issue we found that the academic norm is to shield students from many of our most important…
Jon A. Shields, Yuval Avnur, and Stephanie Muravchik
‘Hate Crime’ School Superintendent Is Indicted for Fraud
Devon Horton, who unleashed the unfounded vilification of two white students in Evanston, Illinois, allegedly steered school contracts to friends and…
Frannie Block
Colleges Are Pushed to Shut Down Joint Programs in China
A House committee says the programs pose national security threats to America by funding and advancing research used to bolster China’s military…
Frannie Block
Can China See What Your Kid Is Reading?
Epic, a literacy platform for students, holds data on 75 million American kids—and experts say Beijing could use it for AI training.
Frannie Block
In Defense of Inequality
How do we respect every person’s dignity while also cultivating excellence? Nearly every university has decided to answer that question by abandoning…
Carlos Carvalho
How Zohran Mamdani Could Kill New York’s Schools
I ran New York City’s school system under Mayor Bloomberg. And I’m alarmed by the socialist’s plans.
Joel Klein
The Teenagers Resisting the AI Takeover
Most students see chatbots as homework hacks. These kids see them as a threat to their humanity.
Maya Sulkin
Exciting News: Jonathan Haidt and The Free Press
The author of the world-changing ‘The Anxious Generation’ and his band of brilliant colleagues will be regular contributors to our pages.
Bari Weiss
The War on Knowledge
At the private school where I once taught, the idea was that spelling got in the way of creativity. So I watched as kids wrote ‘macien’ for ‘machine’ at…
Dan Lerman
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