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History, Hillsdale-Style
Last year, Governor Bill Lee unveiled a plan for Hillsdale College, a small conservative college in Michigan, to open up to 50 charter...
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May 2, 20234 min read


If You Give A Student A Book: School Censorship and Representation
For educators, bibliophiles, and parents alike, there are few things more devastating than hidden and empty bookshelves in elementary...
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Apr 23, 20234 min read


Speak Now
An average of seven antisemitic incidents occurred each day in the United States in 2021, according to the Anti-Defamation League...
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Apr 23, 20235 min read


Brown’s Racial and Socioeconomic Cliques Reflect Flawed Diversity Promises
Money and race divide Brown students into cliques. Brown promised us upon admission that we would connect with individuals of various...
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Apr 18, 20237 min read


What Lowell High School Teaches Us About Educational Inequity in San Francisco
San Francisco’s Lowell High School is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi River. It is one of California’s...
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Apr 3, 20235 min read


Teaching Well-being: Schools’ Responsibility to Address the Mental Health Crisis
[CW: This article contains mentions of self-harm/suicide and sexual violence.] “Adults don’t get all the pressure that teenage girls have...
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Apr 3, 20234 min read


Black History Month and Black Exceptionalism
Every February, up to my senior year of high school, my teachers would teach some variation of a “classic” Black History Month lesson,...
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Mar 26, 20235 min read


Leaving Legacies Behind
The Supreme Court is poised to rule that affirmative action is unconstitutional when it hears cases this fall. If the Court makes such a...
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Feb 5, 20235 min read


The Overrepresentation of Religion in the Courts, Congress, and the Classroom
The last Supreme Court session resulted in numerous 6-3 decisions in which the conversative majority consistently contradicted...
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Dec 13, 20225 min read


Redefining the Meaning of Comprehensive Sex Education
The precedent-defying Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Clinic has reignited a conversation about sex education policy....
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Dec 10, 20224 min read


Students for “Fair” Admissions? Challenging the Myth of Race-Neutral College Placement
In the early 1970s, Allan Bakke was rejected twice by the University of California Davis School of Medicine. Bakke sued the university,...
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Dec 6, 20224 min read


Education Reform Must Not Be Ignored In The Fight For Racial Justice
Children are unfortunately exceptionally effective political pawns. According to the 2020 US Census, there are 63 million Americans with...
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Nov 29, 20226 min read


A Step, Not the Solution: The Shortcomings of Biden’s Plan for Student Debt Cancellation
In August, the Biden administration announced it would cancel $10,000 of student debt for all federal borrowers making less than $125,000...
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Nov 15, 20225 min read


Feeling Like a Fraud? Welcome to the Club.
As you stroll around the Main Green, the daily bells echo across the busy campus—the starting gun to run to your next class. In that...
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Oct 28, 20225 min read


The Gilded Age of Higher Education
The 2022 college admissions cycle highlights two contradicting realities in higher education. On one hand, top-tier universities...
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Jun 3, 20223 min read


Curricula in Crisis: The Slippery Slope of School Censorship
In the past year, a wave of intense debate surrounding the censorship of public school curricula has swept the nation, impacting students...
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Apr 22, 20224 min read


Class, Affirmative Action, and the Dangers of Progressive Tribalism: The case against race-based aff
An increasingly concerning phenomenon is festering within progressive politics. In late May of 2020, prominent Marxist scholar Adolph...
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Apr 18, 20226 min read


Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law Is Part of a Long-running Conservative Effort Target
On February 17, 2022 the Florida Senate advanced legislation that would ban discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in...
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Apr 16, 20225 min read


Will Biden Take Action on the Student Debt Crisis?
After a year in office, President Joe Biden has yet to follow through on his campaign promise to relieve the student debt crisis....
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Apr 14, 20224 min read


Fear and Loathing in Central Pennsylvania: School Boards and the Polarization of American Politics
On a Wednesday night last August, the Shippensburg Area School Board held a special meeting. The nine members sat behind a table in the...
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Mar 22, 20227 min read
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