Education

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…

On Sunday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Michael Steele approvingly cites a statement claiming: "Jim Crow has left the south and now roams the country as his grandson, James E. Crow, Esquire. The segregationists played the long game while we were asleep at the wheel. Derrick Johnson, President of the NAACP, suggests that as a result of the closing of the Department of…

On Thursday's Morning Joe, as the group fretted over the Donald Trump administration's push to eliminate the federal Department of Education, MSNBC contributor Anand Giridharadas declared that MAGA Republicans want Americans uneducated so they won't be able to read about how bad they are for America.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel welcomed California Sen. Adam Schiff to his Thursday show for some liberal group therapy. The theme of the interview was that Kimmel would put the ball on the tee for Schiff, who would then say things like Democrats have to fight against the “dictator wannabees,” that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have a “certain arsonist's glee,” and that Trump can “go [bleep]…

Keeping her habit alive of assembling conservative-free panels, CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish's guests this morning were CNN's oh-so-serious Stephen Collinson, Washington Post reporter Sabrina Rodriguez, and Cari Champion, a CNN contributor who's also the host of the "Naked Sports" podcast. The target was Trump's moves to shut down the Department of Education, and after clips of a union…

Chuck Schumer is running scared from his own party. He can’t even hit the road to promote his new book, “Antisemitism in America: A Warning,” for fear of protests. The Senate minority leader had to postpone his publicity tour on account of what a spokeswoman calls “security concerns.” Progressive Democrats, furious Schumer passed a Republican spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, are…

The 36 million who watched President Donald Trump’s address to Congress also watched as Congressional Black Caucus member, Rep. Al Green, shook his cane and shouted at the president. When he refused to desist, Speaker Mike Johnson ordered him removed from the chamber. Two days later, in a bipartisan vote, the House censured Green.

PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez joined the Wednesday edition of CNN’s Inside Politics to freak out about President Donald Trump’s plans to close, or at least downsize, the Department of Education. As Barron-Lopez tells it, Trump is trying to privatize public education, and shuttering the department will start a domino effect that will lead states to…

One interesting development over the first month and a half of the Trump Administration has been the degree to which the media has deeply passionate opinions about the federal government’s bureaucratic org chart. On MSNBC’s Saturday edition of The Katie Phang Show, the eponymous host welcomed AFT president Randi Weingarten to simultaneously claim the Department of Education does not…

There is no correlation between the amount of money spent on education and education results, but according to ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel on his Thursday show, the reason why President Donald Trump wants to get rid of the Department of Education is because it will make people too dumb to criticize him.

CBS’s Stephen Colbert stayed up for a live show on what turned out to be Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump’s address to Congress. Colbert spent his monologue praising Rep. Al Green for getting kicked out of the House chamber and attacking Trump on everything from transgender issues to shipbuilding. Later, he would welcome former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to wonder, “…