A federal court has declared a Florida law banning representatives of the Gideons from handing out Bibles within 500 feet of any school in the state unconstitutional because it is vague and actually “encourages arbitrary enforcement.”

We have been looking at variations in the four year graduation rate of well over 500 schools, trying to explain variations between them. Why do some schools graduate 80 percent of their students or more in four years --while others graduate just 30 percent? As in many other things, conventional wisdom is often just plain wrong.

The obsession of many high school students and their parents about getting into a prestige college or university is part of the social scene of our time. So is the experience of parents going deep into hock to finance sending a son or daughter off to Ivy U. or the flagship campus of the state university system.

College Plus!, an online program that allows students to complete a regionally accredited bachelor’s degree in as few as two years, is providing an alternative to the dilemmas of high costs and high indoctrination levels facing parents and students.

..."The California Teachers Association ... decided to file an amicus brief arguing before the court that parents should have no right over the education of their children, should not have a right to home school, and that these children should be literally forced to be put back into the public schools—even though parents object,” the attorney explains.

At the University of California, Irvine the Muslim Student Union (MSU), a virulently anti-Semitic and anti-American student group, holds several programs which unabashedly support terrorist groups and unjustly denounce Israel, America, and the Western world. MSU events have featured speakers like Norman Finkelstein, Ward Churchill, Muhammad al-Asi and Amir Abdel Malik Ali, and have had titles such as “Hamas: the People’s Choice” and “Israel: The 4th Reich.”

Most Americans can’t write a decent college paper.  It’s not exactly news.  Half a century ago Bernard Malamud, smart Jewish kid from Brooklyn, taught English at Oregon State University.  He found the experience so grueling that he wrote it up in A New Life. His fictional hero, Levin,

The University of Toledo (UT) has sent a message - loud and clear - to potential employees and students: African-American Christians need not apply.

It’s a claim that liberals make as easily as the rest of us breathe: If you don’t blindly throw infinite piles of money at public K-12 education, you hate children. Never mind that the worst thing any loving parent could do to their child is turn them over to the state to be “educated.” That’s an idea right out of the Soviet Union and Karl Marx’s writings.

Unassisted this year by a media blitz, the May-1st-amnesty marches for illegal aliens limped along American streets. In previous years, the media hype surrounding this issue commanded the nation’s attention. When I taught in Texas, my students found the demonstrations more urgent than their novel The Great Gatsby.

On April 25, adult homosexual activists with the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network held their annual “Day of Silence,” or DOS, propaganda push. During DOS, teachers and students in roughly 3,000 middle schools, high schools and colleges across the country are cynically used as culture-war pawns in an effort to legitimize conventionally immoral, objectively deviant and demonstrably high-risk sexual behaviors.

While waiting to speak at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee last night, I was given a tour of the Student Union, the venue for my talk. The Union building also houses the offices of student clubs, funded by mandatory student fees. On the bulletin board outside the office of the Muslim Students’ Association a flyer was posted, which was part of a campaign against my appearance. It was titled “Getting to Know David Horowitz,” and featured a section headed “Who is David Whorowitz?” At the top of the page was an anti-Semitic caricature of a Jew in the classic style familiar from the Nazi posters of the 1930s, which have become ubiquitous in the Arab world. The Jew in the caricature was standing in a garbage can with the cover on his head, dressed in a Nazi uniform, with an armband marked “H” for “Horowitz,” and the caption read “Horowitz Awareness Week.” This is the central of the tropes of the Muslim Students’ Association campaign on college campuses across the country: Jews are Nazis. “Bring your white sheets and brown shirts and COME ON DOWN! Flaming crosses and Stars of David will be supplied to those who arrive early.”

Did you catch the video this week of a student kicking the stuffing out of an art teacher in Baltimore, Maryland while the rest of the class cheered the pounding on? Y’know, if that teacher was moi, and some F-bomb dropping Darwinian throwback came over my desk to accost me, I’d grab my handy dandy scissors and plant ‘em in the feral teen’s skullcap, Jason Voorhees style.

This event is set for 105 colleges(1). Leftists are warring against it. The same happened at the first event last year. Ex-Muslim Nonie Darwish at Berkeley was threatened. Other speakers were interrupted.

The superintendent of a public school that sparked a federal lawsuit by teaching homosexuality to children as young as kindergarten has told another worried parent he can review course material, but he has no right to withdraw his child from class during lessons.