Opinion
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Grading by Administrators or How to Pass Failing Students When Pressuring Faculty Fails
Opinion -Editorial -State universities provide great examples of using human creativity under socialism/fascism (state-run or state-controlled systems). It is not used for productive goals. Instead, it is used by bureaucrats to achieve their own goals. -
The Sandstorm: Book Ban Baloney Lives On
Opinion -Editorial -The “banned books” lie is still being spread. -
The Sandstorm: The Latest NAEP Disgrace
Opinion -A Wall Street Journal headline stated, “Twelfth-Grade Math and Reading Scores in U.S. Hit New Low”. -
The Sandstorm: College Crackdown
Opinion -Diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates, race-based hiring, and safe spaces are just a few of the noxious turns that have become the standard in American colleges and universities in recent times. -
The Sandstorm: College Crackdown
Opinion -Diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates, race-based hiring, and safe spaces are just a few of the noxious turns that have become the standard in American colleges and universities in recent times. -
The Sandstorm: School Choice Battles Are Widespread
Opinion -Parental freedom is rapidly expanding, and teachers’ unions have resorted to litigation. -
The Sandstorm: Righting Our Sinking Educational Ship
Opinion -Public education in our country is struggling, and many proposed solutions are of no help whatsoever. -
The Latest Fed Ed Revisions
Opinion -President Trump’s education plans are in motion. I will touch on a few of the most recent developments here. -
The Sandstorm: Uncivil Union
Opinion -High school English teacher Ashlie Crosson, NEA’s 2025 National “Teacher of the Year,” set the tone by claiming that the profession is “deeply political.” -
Did SCOTUS Just Transform America’s Schools?
Opinion -From the National Review, July 9, 2025: In June, on the final dramatic day of its term, the Supreme Court in the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor affirmed the right of parents in Montgomery County, Md., to opt their children out of public school classes reading “LGBTQ+-inclusive” texts, on grounds that preventing such opt-outs unconstitutionally burdens parents’ […] -
The Sandstorm: Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Update
Opinion -According to a recent Speech First report, the nation’s leading medical schools are controlled by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion fanatics, who inflict beliefs such as “weight inclusivity,” racial justice, and gender ideology on their staff and students through policies, forced statements, and curricular mandates. -
Federal ‘School Choice’ Program Irks Left and Right
Opinion -A national “school choice” program in the “Big, Beautiful Bill” was signed into law on Independence Day by President Donald Trump, drawing both applause and concerns from conservatives. Language protecting religious liberty and seeking to restrain government control of private schools was stripped from the legislation before passage. Supporters argued that the program, even though […] -
Reducing Unfair Discrimination: Statism vs. Free-Market Capitalism
Opinion -“Man is an unoriginal animal,” says Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie’s “Cards on the Table.” This human tendency to keep doing essentially the same thing may be one reason why we still use government laws and regulations to deal with unfair discrimination regardless of the evidence that they are better at creating rather than eliminating […] -
The Milgram Experiments: Distressing Evidence of Human Nature or the Effectiveness of the Prussian Education System?
Opinion -The harm done by the Prussian academic system, which we still use today, goes far beyond the poor academic results we see in schools. -
Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Legislation Is Advancing
Opinion -ECCA would provide financial assistance to families in all 50 states that have incomes less than three times their “area’s median income.” -
University Abuse of Taxpayers Must End
Opinion -There is no constitutional principle that requires the government to provide funding to any private schools. -
Peer Review of Academic Articles: Gold Standard or Paper Money Standard?
Opinion -The first time I heard that the current method used to accept scientific article submissions to academic journals—the peer review of academic articles—was the gold standard to ensure the quality of academic research, the statement sounded reasonable to me. It seemed that everybody agreed that peer review was the best method. However, watching poor decisions […] -
America’s Dead Ed
Opinion -A detailed analysis of the most recent NAEP reveals the deterioration of American public schools, and not surprisingly, the teachers’ unions are a significant contributor to the decline. -
California Schools Are A Mess
Opinion -The Golden State’s education priorities are terribly misguided, schools are bleeding students, and teachers are being laid off. -
School Choice Update: The Good, The Bad, And The Controversial
Opinion -Overall, there are now 76 private school choice programs in 35 states, plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, with 18 states offering universal choice. -
The Educational Choice for Children Act Can Improve Public Schools
Opinion -There are plenty of gripes about the public schools, but it is easy to understand why nothing gets fixed: the money keeps pouring in. Public school administrators often cry broke despite receiving billions of dollars from federal, state, and local governments. They run out of money because so much of what they get is wasted. For […] -
Measuring Performance in Education: Why Do Many Teachers Dislike It?
Opinion -If we really care about education, all government interference that favors the Prussian education system should be eliminated. -
Education Battles Get National Attention
Opinion -SCOTUS will soon rule on cases involving sex and religion in the nation’s schools. -
Choosing Choice
Opinion -Our ZIP code-mandated education system (Z MES) is rapidly losing favor.