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Thomas K. Lindsay, Ph.D., Editor in Chief and Director, Center for Higher Education, Texas Public Policy Foundation
By George Leef A large part of President Trump’s pledge to “drain the swamp” in Washington consists of revoking previous regulations that advanced leftist ideas about the economy and education. During the Obama years, the Departments of Education and Justice prodded colleges and universities to use race-conscious admission policies in order to achieve more diversity. […]
By William Murchison An appalling sign of an appalling tendency to let the U. S. Supreme Court settle All Important Questions is the speculation over whether Justice Anthony J. Kennedy’s eventual successor will disrupt the high court’s jurisprudence on affirmative action–chiefly, affirmative action for college admission. Why are we having this discussion to begin with? […]
(From edweek.org): By Alyson Klein More than half of principals, assistant principals, and other school leaders say schools don’t focus enough on civics, according to a nationally representative survey by the Education Week Research Center. CONTINUE READING HERE
(From Forbes.com): By Tom Lindsay If some public universities have lost sight of the fact that freedom of speech is essential to both education and American democracy, the American people are fortunate that a growing number of state legislatures have not. Several weeks ago, Louisiana Governor John Edwards signed SB 364, a bill crafted to restore […]
In this latest video from Akil Alleyne, he takes us to the Cradle of Liberty–Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–to discuss the history of free speech in America. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE
The free-speech-on-campus wars of the 21st century are causing those on both sides of the political divide to do some soul-searching about the meaning of free expression. As this blog has thoroughly covered, there is movement afoot to protect faculty and students on the right and left of ideological debates through state legislation. Yet recent […]
(From intellectualtakeout.org): By Barry Brownstein Reason Magazine asked students at the University of Southern California to define “hate speech.” Among the students surveyed, Reason found plenty of wannabee dictators eager to offer their definitions of hate speech and ready to make it a crime. CONTINUE READING HERE
By William Murchison Amid the present uproar over immigration, is it hard to be hard on poor Harvard for the uproar over whether the school discriminates against Asian-American applicants? Ask me another stupid question. It’s never hard to be hard on a school famed for sanctimony in the matter of disciplining criticisms of affirmative action […]
By George Leef Racial preferences in college admissions dodged a constitutional bullet when the Supreme Court decided to uphold the University of Texas’ preferential policy in the Fisher case (2016). What had once looked like a case that would kill or at least wound the way many top colleges and universities discriminate against some applicants […]
