From AEI's Frederick M. Hess and Mike McShane: the right has a unique opportunity to reform education — without the social media-led culture war.
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NEW: Report released today on DEI courses students have to take to satisfy gen ed requirements. 67% of the public and private universities we looked at require DEI courses to graduate!
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ Ilya Shapiro American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) Frederick M. Hess Steve McGuire Palm Beach Freedom Institute Speech First

'The message that Senator Warren sent yesterday was clear: it’s her way or the highway, the Constitution be damned.'

Beth Akers at AEIdeas:
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The Right Has an Opportunity to Rethink Education in America | TIME time.com/6965453/right-…

Outgoing Institute of Education Sciences Director Mark Schneider laments politicization at the Ed. Department—and in academia writ large—in a conversation with Frederick M. Hess. #EWOpinion #RHSU edweek.org/policy-politic…

Biden makes clear there’s really now no alternative to scrapping federal student loans.

At this point, huge chunks of taxpayer “lending” won’t be repaid. The funds will instead subsidize grifters & bloated college bureaucracies.

Let’s put a stop to this. forbes.com/sites/frederic…

Set aside the whole age/infirmity thing as well as Trump’s manifold failings.

On the merits, I find it extraordinarily difficult to take seriously those who suggest that a vote for Biden in 2024 is a vote for civility, the constitutional order, or moderation.

After the meeting, I spoke to a senior White House aide.

Her eloquence haunts me still.

“I cry each and every night,” she said, “for the precious souls pressed into capitalist servitude as journalists, attorneys, and DEI trainers, their sacred selves disfigured by debt.”

Today, I’m often asked how I poured new dollars into higher ed, boosted President Biden with his base, taught Americans to view student loans as a cash grab, & did it all without worrying about Congress or the law.

My answer? “That was my job.”

And it was the job of a lifetime.

ICYMI: From the latest Ripon Forum, Frederick M. Hess of AEI Education and Mike McShane of @EdChoice argue that now is the time for conservatives to reclaim the issue of education, and they discuss just how the GOP can do so in their latest book– bit.ly/4bPM1G9

Mark Schneider, outgoing director at the Institute of Education Sciences, laments politicization at U.S. Department of Education and in academia writ large.

“Education research is highly ideologically driven. If DEI has affected more established & rigorous sciences, which it has, then what can we expect from a far weaker scientific field such as ours?”

- Mark Schneider, just finishing his tenure as director of IES Research

Is Education Research Too Political?

Second half of my conversation with Mark Schneider, who just wrapped his six-year term as director of the US Dept of Ed’s ⁦IES Research⁩. edweek.org/policy-politic…

22nd-Century Skills Guru Paul Banksley: “Math Needs a Makeover”

Who cares if equations are equal? What matters is how they make you feel. educationnext.org/22nd-century-s…

“Educational choice has real benefits, but it’s not a bag of magic beans.” Frederick M. Hess and Mike McShane

Paul Banksley is the
Three Year Letterman of education. Not the visionary leader we expected. But the one we deserve.

“Only the federal government could devise a predatory loan that loses money.”

- American Enterprise Institute’s Michael Brickman e-mails with the most telling take on this entire, years-long debacle

'Schooling is always a handshake between students and teachers, between parents and families. The explosion of chronic absenteeism illustrates how thoroughly pandemic-era habits and school practices loosened that grip.' —Frederick M. Hess for Forbes bit.ly/3U3rp6o

It’s almost as if Maddow doesn’t know that all these billions are owed to the U.S. Treasury & not to banks . . . as if she doesn’t know that Democrats cut the banks out during the Obama years in order to “protect borrowers.”

Unless, of course, she’s just purposefully lying.

'Jargon' and 'Fads': Departing IES Chief on State of Ed. Research edweek.org/policy-politic…