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1 week ago | 
thecentersquare.com | John Hendrickson |David Randall
Gov. Kim Reynolds has just signed into law House File 437, which establishes a Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa. Reynolds did a great service to Iowans – as did Rep. Taylor Collins, who shepherded the bill through the legislature, and all his colleagues who supported and voted for House File 437. The new Center will do a great deal to improve Iowa’s public higher education.
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1 week ago | 
mindingthecampus.org | David Randall
The Continental Congress appointed George Washington Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army on June 19, 1775. Washington did not think he was qualified for the job. It’s not like any other part of the Patriot resistance was ready for war. Washington was off to lead a bunch of Massachusetts farmers who trained part-time. There were a lot of them, and they’d beaten the over-confident British at Lexington and Concord, but they weren’t much better than a rabble in arms.
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1 week ago | 
americanmind.org | David Randall
I am just old enough to remember watching the tall ships sail down the Hudson River on Independence Day in 1976. My parents hosted a huge party for their friends and family to look out from the high windows of our apartment on Riverside Park and the river beyond. I alternated between eating slices from an enormous six-foot hoagie my parents had ordered and watching ship after ship sail by. My memory mixes up the sight of sails and the taste of salami.
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2 weeks ago | 
fairfieldsuntimes.com | David Randall |Jonathan Gregg
Even Harvard University now offers remedial math classes for incoming students. Harvard’s critics persuasively suggest that Harvard shouldn’t have pursued “equity” by ending standardized testing requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic. But that’s not the only reason Harvard students now need remedial math. America’s K-12 mathematics education has decayed so much that even Harvard students can’t make the grade. America’s state mathematics standards bear much of the blame.
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1 month ago | 
mindingthecampus.org | David Randall
The Trump administration just issued an Executive Order to prohibit accrediting organizations from imposing “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies on universities.
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1 month ago | 
mindingthecampus.org | David Randall
Classical education is growing rapidly in America—and with good reason. Set aside for the moment whether classical education provides a better character education than mainstream K-12 education. It does a good job simply in conveying basic knowledge and preparing students for college and careers. [R]esearch shows CCE graduates possess uniquely valuable skills for modern employers.
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1 month ago | 
mindingthecampus.org | David Randall
“In 2024,” says a new report from Americans for Public Trust, “China poured over $175 billion into U.S. schools, and the historic breadth of this vast enterprise cannot be understated.” Americans for Public Trust’s report also reveals that, Additional government investigations have also revealed a dramatic increase in instances of U.S-based researchers being arrested for illegally collaborating with China, providing more alarming evidence of the level of influence gifts and contracts have...
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1 month ago | 
mindingthecampus.org | David Randall
The Second Continental Congress opened on May 10, 1775. The British had already fired upon Massachusetts militia men at Lexington and Concord. Soon, Congress would make itself into a genuine, revolutionary government by taking on the traditional tasks of borrowing money, printing paper currency, and raising an army, which is what they needed the money for. That wouldn’t be until June. First, the Congress had to read into its Journal the authorizing credentials.
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1 month ago | 
mindingthecampus.org | David Randall
I’ve recently had the honor and the pleasure to serve on the Workgroup assembled by the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) to help draft Florida’s new K-12 History of Communism standards. I shouldn’t say anything about the draft standards in detail, since they haven’t yet been published, but my fellow workgroup members and the members of the FLDOE did an excellent job. Florida citizens should be happy when they see the final result.
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2 months ago | 
mindingthecampus.org | David Randall
An extraordinary number of public state universities now admit a majority of their students from out of state. At the University of Vermont, the number is 75 percent. At the University of Delaware, the number is 66 percent.
