Outside the Beltway

The National Labor Relations Board refused to certify an effort by athletes at Northwestern University to unionize.

The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to wade back into the thorny issue of race and higher education.

A proposed California law would require all students who attend public school to be vaccinated, with limited exemptions for medical reasons.

Lee Siegel takes to the NYT to explain “Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans.”

A wealthy alumnus has given Harvard $400 million, sparking a heated debate.

Being required to demonstrate competency in liberal arts to teach is racially discriminatory, a federal judge has ruled.

One more on this topic.

The first of what is likely to be many defamation suits related to Rolling Stone’s discredited campus rape story has been filed.

The Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of three students disciplined for wearing American flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo

A sad, complicated story.

Freedom of speech means freedom for all speech, even when it is racially offensive.

The post title is quite the recurring question, it would seem.

The Kentucky Senator and medical doctor claims an undergraduate degree he doesn’t have.

An Oberlin College student makes it clear just why she needs an education.

Apparently, law schools are in the business of coddling their special snowflake children now.

An utter journalistic failure from Rolling Stone.

Every member of the Supreme Court graduated from an Ivy League Law School. That kind of homogeneity is not healthy.

Another school shooting.

Have digital books rendered the publishing houses obsolete?

Their places are being filled by students who pay higher tuition rates.

Does the seriousness of a crime vary depending on the gender of the parties involved?

The end of an era.

Americans have long been lampooned for not speaking a second language. Now our cousins across the Pond are getting it, too.

Dedicated reading improves our brains and our health—unless it’s on a computer screen.

Well, that punishment didn’t last for very long.

My latest for RealClearDefense: “Senator Walsh’s Unrepresentative Black Mark on Professional Military Education”

Just some things to consider about Common Core standards.

A New York Federal Judge has ruled that unvaccinated children can be forced to stay home during outbreaks.

It is now illegal to teach creationism as science in the United Kingdom in any school, public or private, that receives public funding.

The Supreme Court declined to review a lower court ruling that public school graduations in churches are unconstitutional.

A landmark ruling out of California that could help propel a real debate on education reform.

How the richest man in the world quickly changed the education curriculum in 45 states.

While it’s been much derided in recent years, there’s a definite economic benefit to obtaining a college degree,

According to the New York City Public Schools, this girl is fat.

A pretty clear violation of the First Amendment.

Boko Haram is threatening to sell the 200-plus Nigerian girls it has kidnapped into slavery.

The right decision, or the triumph of mob rule?