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Harvard College is discriminating against students on the basis of sex by trying to force single-sex student organizations to go co-ed, a federal lawsuit claims. Two fraternities, two sororities, and three male undergraduates are asking a federal judge to issue an injunction forcing Harvard not to pressure students against joining
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Pioneer Institute in Boston recently issued an informative report criticizing Common Core's standards for the damage they have done to student achievement in this country and to the school choice movement. The authors of this report — Ted Rebarber of Accountability Works and Neil McCluskey at the CATO Institute
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New Boston Post recently reported comments by the new president of the University of New Hampshire dismissing concerns about ideological bias on university campuses. "I think that people make a little bit more of this than it really is," James W. Dean Jr. is reported to have said
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Less than 16 percent of teachers' union dues in several school districts in Massachusetts stays with the teachers' local union, a Pioneer Institute study found. The rest goes to state and national teachers unions that the teachers also belong to, according to the policy brief from the conservative
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The guilty plea of a former lawyer for the Trump Organization, Michael Cohen, on Augist 21 was reportedly motivated in part by Cohen's 83-year-old father, who supposedly told his son that he didn't "survive the Holocaust to have his name sullied by Mr. Trump."
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University of Massachusetts campuses will continue to allow people to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity even if state voters choose next week to get rid of a state law that makes it illegal to discriminate on the basis of gender identity in public accommodations,
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On the face of it, it would seem reasonable to believe that education policy makers could learn much from successful policies and programs. But they often don't. Here are two relatively clear examples of policy makers failing to learn from effective policies/programs. In both cases, the policy
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In 1630, John Winthrop, the leader of the Puritan founders who landed in Boston, delivered what would become a famous sermon just before the first group of Massachusetts Bay Colonists departed for America on the ship Arbella. The sermon, titled "A Model of Christian Charity," is one of
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