Americans — especially Republicans — are losing confidence in higher education, reports Gallup. Three years ago, 57 percent of U.S. adults had “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education: That’s fallen to 48 percent. Confidence in Higher Education Declining Percentage with “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education 20152018Change%%pct. pts.U.S. adults5748-9Republicans5639-17Independents4844-4Democrats6862-6GALLUP “Many Republicans

Political indoctrination is destroying the value of college writing courses, argues Stephen Combs, who teaches composition at Florida’s Valencia College, on the Martin Center site. Students desperately need to be taught how to write — not how to ape their instructors’ views, he argues. At “too many colleges,” politics comes first. Instead of showing students how to present and defend positions with empirical evidence, many teachers use classroom time to lecture on white privi

Soon to be a man’s second wife, Ahlima feels “very fortunate” to live under Sharia law in Saudi Arabia, she writes. “I understand that some foreigners see our dress as a way of keeping women from being equal, but … I find Western women’s clothing to be horribly immodest.” The fictional 20-year-old appears on a worksheet given to seventh graders in southern Indiana. Parents are upset, reports the Courier-Journal. There’s no mention of oppression in Saudi Arabia, they complaine