The kids outlasted the testers, and eight winners were left standing: Eight spellers were better than the dictionary. They were better than anything the Scripps National Spelling Bee could throw at them. And they all ended up with a hand … Continue reading →
Here’s a lawsuit that may go all the way to the Supreme Court: During the 2014-2015 school year, a Christian teenage girl was forced to recite the Islamic conversion creed — the Shahada — in writing for her 11th-grade class. … Continue reading →
The College Board, which has been devising and administering the test known as the SATs, has announced the latest tweak they’ve devised to try to even the playing field: The College Board, which oversees the SAT exam used by most … Continue reading →
Maybe it doesn’t even matter which it is, because the impulse is the same whether it’s supposedly religious or supposedly secular/leftist: to destroy history and its representations and replace them with the new orthodoxy. The deeper motive is to indoctrinate … Continue reading →
I can’t say that the results of this attempt at intervention are especially surprising: San Francisco allows parents to apply to any elementary school in the district, having done away with traditional school zoning 18 years ago in an effort … Continue reading →
When I read about the college entrance bribe scandal, the first question that came to my mind was what did these parents think was going to happen when their kids got into a school for which they were neither prepared … Continue reading →
Not that we needed a reminder. But she certainly provides it. Here’s the text of an open letter from the New York state budget director Robert Mujica concerning the recent decision by Amazon not to follow through on a planned … Continue reading →
This column by Matthew Continetti had such a promising title: “What to Do About the Rebirth of Socialism: Where it came from and how to stop it.” Well, maybe that’s biting off too big a hunk to chew in such … Continue reading →
How many people who think Trump is a tyrant because he does too much by executive decree felt the same way about Obama when he used the same tool? Does the Venn diagram of those two groups intersect at all? … Continue reading →
Orphanages have gotten a bad press for quite some time, but here’s a corrective that points out how often orhpanages have been either good experiences for their residents, or at least far better than many of the alternatives. Adoptive and … Continue reading →
In light of the brouhaha that arose in response to President Trump’s recent comments lauding nationalism, I think it’s illuminating to revisit two quotes from Allan Bloom’s 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind. Here’s the first: Contrary to … Continue reading →
At 88, she writes that she has been diagnosed with dementia, probably Alzheimer’s. “I will continue living in Phoenix, Arizona surrounded by dear friends and family,” she wrote and added, “While the final chapter of my life with dementia may … Continue reading →