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High school sports help fight absenteeism
2+ hour, 28+ min ago (417+ words) Nat Malkus and Sam Hollon write for the American Enterprise Institute about one benefit of high school sports. Examining day-level attendance records and varsity participation data for roughly 262, 000 Indiana high school students, we find a consistent "double bump" effect of…...
Public School Finance
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (421+ words) Policy Analyst for the Center for Effective Education, Research Editor, John Locke Foundation Director of the Center for Effective Education, John Locke Foundation Article IX, Section 2 of the North Carolina State Constitution speaks to the state's responsibility for public education…...
Time for North Carolina finally to repeal the literacy test
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (618+ words) Director of the Civitas Center for Public Integrity, John Locke Foundation I recently spoke with a group in western North Carolina about election policy. One of them asked what policies I am pursuing for the upcoming short session of the…...
Yale offers questionable picture of 'thriving' Jewish community
1+ week, 4+ day ago (432+ words) Jessica Costescu writes for the Washington Free Beacon about disturbing developments at a major Ivy League school. Yale College's Jewish enrollment is down from 16. 4 percent in the 2010s to just 9. 5 percent in 2024, a level comparable to the 1940s, when the Ivy League…...
Columbia students seek to protest classroom activism
1+ week, 6+ day ago (208+ words) Jessica Costescu and Jessica Schwalb write for the Washington Free Beacon about the latest questionable demands from one group of Ivy League students. Columbia University's student union has been in a yearlong contract dispute with the Ivy League school, demanding…...
Young men adrift: looking beneath the surface
2+ week, 2+ day ago (505+ words) Director of the Center for Effective Education, John Locke Foundation A new survey from the Institute for Family Studies asks why so many young men are adrift, disconnected and disengaged from today's world. The study, conducted by You Gov between…...
California school district accused of giving phony degrees to Chinese students
2+ week, 4+ day ago (270+ words) Preston Mizell writes for Fox News. com about a disturbing revelation involving one California school district. An extensive audit revealed a California school district allegedly issued diplomas to students in China in addition to potentially "unlawful financial practices associated with…...
UCLA sued over records linked to paid activist
2+ week, 4+ day ago (420+ words) Aaron Sibarium writes for the Washington Free Beacon about bad publicity for a major West Coast university. The University of California, Los Angeles, was slapped with a lawsuit on Tuesday for stonewalling a public records request related to an "activist-in-residence,…...
K-12 grade inflation hurts American kids' earning potential
2+ week, 6+ day ago (182+ words) Thomas Lindsay writes for the Federalist about a disturbing new study involving American school kids. Average high school GPAs have risen nearly half a letter grade over the past four decades, even as standardized test scores decline. The divergence screams…...
Columbia students cozy up to 'Death to America' group
2+ week, 6+ day ago (397+ words) Jessica Costescu writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a disturbing development on an Ivy League campus. Columbia-Barnard Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), a recognized student group, says it is working "to plan actions and liaise with Columbia University…...