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University of Florida tops new college rankings
City Journal's new college rankings list University of Florida as best in the nation for inquiry and student success.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 26, 20252 min read


13% give public schools an A/B grade
As Americans lose confidence in public schools, a majority of parents say they'd send their kids to private schools, if they got help paying the cost.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 21, 20251 min read


Get your own soapbox
After a few DEI workshops, an elementary teacher decides to teach settler colonialism, climate change, slavery and gender norms in music class.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 8, 20252 min read


You say you want a revolution: NEA votes to call Trump a 'fascist'
The National Education Association will fight for DEI and the U.S. Education Department, and vows to use "fascist" to describe President Trump.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 8, 20252 min read


DEI dominoes wobble in California
Ethnic studies mandates based on racism, colonialism and Marxism are being rejected, even at the University of California and San Francisco schools.

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 29, 20253 min read


DEI buzzwords trigger huge cuts in STEM ed research
DOGE has ordered $773 million in cuts to STEM education research.

Joanne Jacobs
May 18, 20252 min read


Academia tilts very far to the left: Restoring balance won't be easy
Renaming DEI departments and ending diversity statements won't fix academia's intellectual monoculture.

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 24, 20252 min read


DEI double take
Columbia researchers say they're losing federal grants for DEI language that they were required to add by the Biden administration.

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 23, 20252 min read


Dear Colleague: Do what the Ed Department wants -- or else
The Education Department has used "guidance" letters to force states, colleges and districts to spend hundreds of millions of dollars.

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 4, 20253 min read


'Americans got tired of being ridiculed for values like equality, color-blindness, and responsibility,' and now it's backlash time
The anti-DEI backlash is fierce, because so many people were forced to suppress their real feelings.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 18, 20252 min read


Schools' gender, DEI policies pushed parents to the right
Parents have moved to the right, fed up by transgender and DEI policies.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 8, 20252 min read


DEI's done: Let's see what a colorblind America looks like
Donald Trump's executive order ending racial preferences will have far-reaching effects.

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 24, 20253 min read


De-woke schooling: Send the DEI trainers on a one-way 'privilege walk'
Pennsylvania educators will not have to affirm their belief in microaggressions, implicit bias or the illegitimacy of "economic,...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 15, 20242 min read


College presidents, it's going to be a bumpy ride
Trump is likely to go after elite colleges and favor vocational education.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 12, 20241 min read


Identity politics lost: It's time for the great rethink in education
"Your ancestors weren't villains," the meme declares. "Don't apologize for them to people who hate you." Conor Friedersdorf points out...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 11, 20241 min read


Disadvantaged? Really???
Vice President Kamala Harris, the daughter of two university professors, was admitted to Hastings law school via a program for applicants...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 24, 20242 min read


DEI at U of Michigan: 'rote incantations of a state religion'
University of Michigan's DEI program has created a "culture of grievance," not inclusion, say students and professors.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 17, 20242 min read


Scream 2025: Satan's wonks call for parents' bill of rights, block grants
Project 2025's education section is a standard conservative wish list featuring parents' rights and block-granting federal funds.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 23, 20242 min read


The rise of MEI: merit, excellence and intelligence
Will MEI -- merit, excellence and intelligence -- replace DEI?

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 18, 20242 min read


Backlash: Professors reject DEI 'loyalty oaths'
Universities should stop requiring diversity statements, writes Randall L. Kennedy, a Harvard Law professor, in the Harvard Crimson....

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 5, 20242 min read
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