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The Views of 50 Teachers on How Concerned They Are for Generation Alpha Students
By John Droz, Jr. This is cross-post of an article that I feel is exceptional. As you read through these recent real-life assessments, consider how important it is for us — that’s you and me — to see that these children are not only proficient in the three R’s, but are also Critical Thinkers. Those would negate everything here. Recently, Redditor Mark […]
University of Michigan Dumbed Down America—Now It’s Abolishing Grades
By The Geller Report The University of Michigan’s largest undergraduate unit, the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA), announced a pilot program starting in fall 2027 where incoming freshmen will receive “Pass” or “No Credit” on external transcripts for their first semester instead of letter grades. Freshmen get ‘pass’ or ‘no credit’—no real […]
Major Teachers Union Backs Democrats’ Neo-Confederate Resistance to Immigration Enforcement
By The Daily Signal Democrats across the country are opposing President Donald Trump’s enforcement of immigration law, arguably recreating the nullification crisis that helped spark the Civil War—and this neo-Confederate trend just received a major boost from an influential union. The American Federation of Teachers, a union that bankrolls Democrat candidates and left-leaning causes, approved a […]
Connecticut: New law requires educators to develop curriculum materials for Islamic, Arab studies
By Jihad Watch Holocaust and genocide studies are certainly not the same as advancing Islamic and Arab studies materials. Does the law include curriculum materials for Judaism studies? Let’s hope this ridiculous law is challenged legally. Already it’s drawing such concern: Chris Healy, executive director of the Connecticut Catholic Conference, concurred. The Courant cited him […]
Why Is Virginia’s Largest Public School District Spending so Much on Lawyers?
By The Daily Signal In just seven years, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) has spent nearly $60 million on lawyers. During fiscal year 2026 alone, the district set a new record, spending $14.4 million on legal fees. Fiscal Year Legal Fees 2020 $6,401,078 2021 $5,066,049 2022 $6,312,989 2023 $6,925,475 2024 $11,619,332 2025 $7,656,968 2026 $14,440,784 […]
Trump Defunds the Left’s Graphic Sex Ed in Favor of Lessons on Marriage, Family
By Family Research Council Americans have been so busy fighting against radical gender ideology and critical race theory in schools that one of the Left’s favorite ways to undermine parents has fallen under the radar. But the Trump administration hasn’t lost sight of graphic sex education, and parents everywhere should be grateful for it. In […]
DEI Entrenchment: 7 Colleges Suggesting That ‘White Supremacy’ Persists in America
By The Daily Signal FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A new report exposes seven colleges and universities for featuring statements about “white supremacy” that, the report’s authors say, provide the intellectual framework for racial discrimination in admissions, even after a recent Supreme Court ruling invalidated racial quotas. “Everything on the campuses is framed through a racial lens,” Bill […]
NYC’s Public School Nightmare: Nearly Half of NYC Students Can’t Read or Pass Math, Democrats Covering It Up – Graduating Illiteracy
By The Geller Report Nearly Half of NYC Public Schools Are Failing Our Children While Mamdani Wages His Ideological Jihad Students can’t read or do math, but they’re programmed to vote socialist. Fewer than half the students at nearly 900 New York City public schools are proficient in math and reading, according to a stunning […]
Critically Thinking about K-12 Expenditures vs Performance
By John Droz, Jr. Let’s keep things in perspective… The teacher’s unions, and other self-serving allies, are always claiming that teacher pay is too low — and fixing that will solve the education crisis in our K-12 system (e.g., see here and here). However, like a LOT of things we hear these days, this is inaccurate. Such assertions […]
Restoring the American Dream from Myth to Reality
By Family Research Council For generations, an ordinary and flourishing American life was beautifully simple — work hard, buy a home, raise a family, and retire comfortably. It wasn’t a utopian fantasy, it wasn’t just some dream, it was a reliable and easily calculated reality. Today that feels like a distant and outdated relic. For […]
The Consequences of Elite Overproduction
By Neland Nobel Written by Neland Nobel Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes TPP Editors’ Takes When colleges pump out more “elites” than society has elite jobs for, the frustrated ones don’t get humble — they get radical Capitalism is so successful it pays people to attack it. Schumpeter called this in 1942. Mises: if nobody […]
Massachusetts: Middle school principal apologizes to Muslim students who found Holocaust lesson offensive
By Jihad Watch Many Muslims regard Hitler as a hero. Those who think this is an “Islamophobic conspiracy theory” simply haven’t been paying attention. There was a Hitler clothing store in Gaza. Mein Kampf was a perennial bestseller in Turkey and Egypt. Many Muslims have expressed admiration for Hitler in public fora. And so that is likely […]
Some of the Impacts from Not Immediately and Properly Upgrading K-12 Education
By John Droz, Jr. Critical Thinking and AI Literacy are the key missing subjects. This is a followup to my last commentary where I am proposing that a State immediately implement a new K-12 course: Critical Thinking and AI Literacy. Question to AlterAI: Presently it appears that no State is formally and properly teaching its K-12 students to be: 1) Critical Thinkers, or 2) AI […]
Fraud and Waste in America’s School Districts
By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) Fraud in American public school districts is predominantly an internal issue, with 97% of cases involving trusted staff or volunteers rather than external hackers. The most common method is cash theft (62% of cases), often skimmed from activity fees and fundraisers before records are created, while less frequent digital payment […]
Washington School Board Director and Sex Shop Owner Hosts Sex Event for Children as Young as 9
By The Geller Report Jenn Mason’s WinkWink Boutique in Bellingham is offering the ‘Uncringe Academy’ covering gender, puberty, and sexuality By Rachel del Guidice, Fox News, June 6, 2026: A Washington school board director who owns a sex shop is helping host a sex education event for children as young as 9 years old, drawing scrutiny […]
Critically Thinking about K-12 Standards — An Extraordinary New Development
By John Droz, Jr. Most people do not realize that the real power regarding K-12 curricula resides with their State Board of Education (SBE) — not local boards. In most States, among other things, the SBE does the following three key things: they approve Standards for every subject and every grade year, they approve textbooks for every subject and every grade year, and they […]
1,000+ University of Calif Professors Revolt: Students Can’t Do Middle School Math, Demand Return of SAT/ACT Requirements
By The Geller Report Over a thousand University of California professors signed an open letter to the Board of Regents demanding they bring back standardized testing after it was removed during covid for equity. They reveal that many STEM students are below Middle School level in Math. The poison fruit of leftwing policies. Dumb students, an obvious […]
Qatar spent over $65,000,000 to manipulate U.S. education
By Jihad Watch Now you know why once-great educational institutions such as Harvard and Georgetown (and many others) are filled with pseudo-academic Islamic apologists and outright dawah propagandists. Now you know why it was so easy to get American college and university students all over the country to agitate for Hamas. Now you know why […]
School is the New Family. God Doesn’t Exist. Civics, Who Cares
By Karen Schoen School is the New Family. God Doesn’t Exist. Civics, Who Cares Since I left the teaching profession, I am sad to say that education has taken a sharp left turn. Country, God, Family and the values of America are no longer mentioned, much less taught in-depth. Instead, students are taught to hate, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Intercepts $60 Million In Student Loan Fraud
By The Daily Caller The Trump administration has blocked $60 million in fraudulent student loan applications since launching a new risk assessment tool last month, the Daily Caller has learned exclusively. The Department of Education launched a new risk assessment tool on April 26 to screen federal student aid applicants for fraud. Since the tool […]
How Did This Leftist Group Smuggle Its Divisive Ideas Into 169 School Districts, Without Parents Knowing?
By The Daily Signal The Southern Poverty Law Center has spread its woke activist agenda in education to at least 169 school districts in 42 states, according to a new report, and the impact of teachers unions helps explain this expansive influence. Learning for Justice, the SPLC’s education arm, promotes “social justice” activism, pushes racially divisive messaging, and […]
Sharyl Attkisson and K-12 Education
By John Droz, Jr. I’m a fan of Sharyl Attkisson — since seeing her thoughtful reports on TV, back around the Civil War time. She now has a Substack and is doing what a good journalist should be doing: objectively reporting on societal issues. (I’ve added her Substack to the select few that I recommend.) Last month, she wrote […]
TERROR-LINKED Muslim Students Associations Taking Over America High Schools
By The Geller Report The islamization of our public schools is instrumental in the advancement of civilizational jihad. With the left’s capture of the American education system, the sharia advancement of the left/Islamic axis was inevitable. By: Donna Fodor, RAIR, May 1, 2026; This new story out of Texas, revealing how Muslim Brotherhood-linked Muslim Student Associations […]
5 Big-City Public Schools Spend Billions More but Students Learning Less
By Family Research Council Public schools in five of the nation’s most densely populated cities are spending billions of local, state, and federal tax dollars, but students are learning less compared to where they were five years ago, according to results reported in the 2025 edition of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). The NAEP — […]
Trump administration to probe NYC public schools over ‘Palestinian resistance’ seminars for kids young as five
By Jihad Watch In the Palestinian territories, children are routinely taught about the “resistance” as part of the curriculum. A 2020 UK Parliamentary report on a Westminster Hall debate described exactly what that “resistance” means: Palestinian children have grown up in an environment of institutionalised radicalisation. In schools named after suicide bombers, schoolchildren are taught from the […]
“Critically Thinking about Feelings”: An AI Assessment
By John Droz, Jr. Another Test for AlterAI… Like several of my commentaries, my last one was somewhat controversial. In it I discussed some of the evidence that the Democrat party is attempting to portray themselves as the “good guys” because they are empathetic to the downtrodden, minorities, etc. I decided to submit that column to AlterAI for […]
Michigan Dems nominate lawyer who praised Hezbollah for University of Michigan regent over Jewish incumbent
By Udi Geva Michigan Democrats ousted Jewish incumbent Jordan Acker (who had been repeatedly targeted by anti-Israel activists) from the University of Michigan Board of Regents on Sunday, nominating Dearborn trial attorney Amir Makled in his place — despite recent reporting by the Detroit News revealing Makled’s history of pro-Hezbollah and antisemitic social media posts, […]
Professor Of Islamic Civilization Says ‘Get Over It’ To Concerns About Rape Gang Crisis
By The Daily Caller A Georgetown University professor is under fire for telling people who share concerns about Muslim “rape gangs” to “get over it.” Professor Jonathan A. C. Brown, chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown, posted the dismissive remark twice on X in response to users discussing a link between Islam and an escalating […]
AI Assessments of: “Overview of America’s #1 Threat” — Part 3
By John Droz, Jr. I asked six (6) different AI’s as to what they thought… Since the evidence indicates that our K-12 education system is America’s most threatening problem, I decided to do yet another test of popular AIs to see what they had to say. As a test I submitted my last commentary (a K-12 overview) […]
Trump Admin To Stop Taxpayer Funding Of Worthless College Degrees
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