Education

The Trump administration has been pursuing, on two fronts, the critical objective of fixing America’s broken education system. One, an executive order by President Donald Trump, issued shortly after he assumed office, is to dismantle the Department of Education. Outright closing of the department is only possible by an act of Congress. However, the president is moving to accomplish the same…

Even by its own standards, the weekly Friday news recap featuring PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks was especially tone-deaf and unintelligent. The trio would have you believe that Columbia University settling with the Trump administration is both a threat to universities…

On Tuesday night, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki sounded the alarm on The Briefing to warn against the Trump administration's desire to “dismantle” the Department of Education. Despite fear mongering talking points, Psaki failed to generate any concrete opposition for the cuts and instead claimed essential programs would collapse.

On MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Eugene Daniels wonders what slave-owning Founding Fathers would think of two African-Americans--Jonathan Capehart and himself--hosting the show. The panel condemns Trump for saying he hates the Democrats, ignoring the torrent of invective that Democrats daily direct at Trump. The panel decries the decline in patriotism in younger generations, ignoring…

On Wednesday's Morning Joe, NBC News national affairs analyst John Heilemann made a rare admission that Hollywood and the "mainstream media" are "largely left of center" as he countered his colleague Anand Giridharadas claiming that Democrats have not been active enough in the "cultural process" to counter President Donald Trump.

Earlier this week, longtime CBS News anchor and 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley gave a commencement address at Wake Forest University that seethed with implicit hate for President Trump and the MAGA movement, telling graduates “freedom of speech,” “journalism,” “our sacred rule of law,” and “universities” are all “under attack” with “an insidious fear” permeating American “…

Now that Texas and South Carolina have passed school choice bills, parents will be able to choose the best school for their kids in 17 states. Why not all states? After all, competition improves services. The Post Office couldn’t get it there overnight. Then FedEx showed it could be done. Quickly, UPS and DHL did it, too, and now even the Post Office does ... sometimes.

On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt held yet another unusual morning press briefing, but this time, her guest was Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller to provide barn-burning remarks on what the administration called President Trump’s first 100 days of “Restoring Common Sense.” Miller repeatedly took the liberal media — living in safe, wealthy confines — to task,…

During an otherwise great segment on Tuesday honoring the National Teacher of the Year, CBS Mornings tried and failed to have her — Mifflin County High School journalism teacher Ashlie Crosson in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania — bash President Trump for wanting to shutter the Department of Education and then condemn the country’s widespread distrust in the news media.

Thursday’s CBS Mornings Plus featured a remarkable segment about a new book from reporter David Zweig about the wholly political behavior and unscientific actions of keeping schools shuttered long-term during the Covid pandemic, perpetuated by so-called public health experts, certain politicians, and teachers unions. Co-host Tony Dokoupil showed disgust with this period of time and…

Two important developments in education occurred over the last week. One was a sign of the problem we have. The other was a sign of the solution. The sign of the problem, to which hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court will provide the correct answer, falls under the headline of sex education. The court has just heard Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which families from a variety of faiths -- Muslims…

When the “Big Three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC weren’t lamenting Tuesday morning the plight of their beloved “Maryland man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia, they each complaining about the Trump administration freezing $2 billion in taxpayer funding from far-left and private Harvard University, siding with the university’s insistence it spend taxpayer dollars as it sees fit.

Every once in a while, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel will do a man-on-the-street interview type of segment where he sends someone out to demonstrate how dumb Donald Trump supporters supposedly are in an attempt to discredit one of Trump’s positions. However, Wednesday’s attempt at this unwittingly backfired on Kimmel, who was blissfully unaware that one conspiracy theory floated by one of the…

A recent report from the American Enterprise Institute summarizes results from the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress — also known as the nation’s report card. The test, given every two years, reports scores of our nation’s children in reading and math at the fourth grade and eighth grade levels. AEI characterizes the most recent results as a “five-alarm fire.” I call it…