October 14, 2026
PRIVATELY, THEY LOVE ELON MUSK; PUBLICLY, THEY HATE ELON MUSK: UNC’s endowment returned more than 30%, helped by its early SpaceX investment.
AI IS RACIST OR SOMETHING: American college students paid foreigners to do their homework — then AI came along
GREAT USE OF TIME AND MONEY: Chicago Public Schools Pays Teachers to Attend Antisemitic “Palestine” Workshops
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: Beloit College requires ‘diversity plan,’ equity advisor for faculty hiring.
THE FEDERAL SCHOLARSHIP TAX CREDIT PROGRAM IS NEARING On Oct. 1, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, slammed the FSTC, incoherently saying, “This scheme is a poison pill for the 90 percent of American children who attend public schools. Instead of strengthening public education, President Trump is diverting $500 billion in taxpayer cash into private hands, with everyone else left fighting for scraps in a real-life Hunger Games.”
Some rules are still being finalized. Here’s what we know so far.
Effective Jan. 1, the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program (FSTC)—part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump in July 2025—will become the largest school-choice program in the U.S.
FREE THOUGH, FREE SPEECH, AND FREE ASSOCIATION ARE NOT A THING AT WHITMAN COLLEGE. Let’s hope the college Republicans sue and sue bigly. At Whitman College, apparently freedom of association is fine, as long as you associate with the approved people. Rights that protect only popular opinions are not really protections at all.
October 12, 2026
DIVERSITY UBER ALLES!: US medical schools have gone DEI-crazy — with deadly results
IF HOMESCHOOLING IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE KIDS OF THE SILICON VALLEY TECH ELITE, WHY NOT FOR ALL CHILDREN: Bay Area tech elites ditch traditional classrooms for AI-powered homeschooling
THERE IS SOMETHING VERY ROTTEN IN DENMARK CALIFORNIA: California parents demand cameras in special education classrooms after alleged teacher abuse
BEYOND PATHETIC. Cambridge University is a CLOWN SHOW: Cambridge is no longer planning to investigate Jason Arday’s academic record or the university’s decision to hire or cover for him. Instead, the investigation will focus on “his welfare, his care, his well-being” and “whether the school offered him sufficient support amid accusations that he plagiarized.”
BUCKLE UP. The Cornell case is going to be with us for a long time:
- The ‘Cornell 7’ haven’t been charged. The mob doesn’t care: What’s most troubling in the Cornell University rape allegations is that onlookers have already made up their minds about who is to blame.
- The political path of the Cornell rape allegation.
- ‘Cornell 7’ frat bro claims he was too wasted to consent to sex with accuser — and that he’s the real victim: records, reports.
- Rapey Cornell University Is a Democrat Problem, Not an American Problem.
- ‘Big Victimhood’ Brings the Circus to Cornell.
- About That Night in Cornell.
- ‘Cornell 7’ drama proves the campus-rape panic is a farce — and college women know it.
- Cornell’s President Misses the Point—In a Telling Way: ‘Body autonomy’ is not the key issue.
- The Cornell case is a moral failure of our culture
- The Cornell Seven and the Revolution
October 11, 2026
October 9, 2026
TRUST IN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM IS IMPLODING: Only 32 percent of American adults say they are ‘completely’ or ‘somewhat’ satisfied with the quality of K-12 education, the lowest figure in Gallup’s 27-year trend, according to a Sept. 7 poll.
THERE IS SOMETHING VERY ROTTEN IN DENMARK CALIFORNIA: California high schoolers post record 4.0 GPAs despite falling test scores, data shows
THAT’S RIGHT: USE THE COERCIVE FORCE OF THE STATE TO ROUND UP KIDS WHO ARE REJECTING THEIR SCHOOLS: NYC schools to deploy truancy officers as 33% of students are chronically absent
I OWN THE LAND FROM WHICH I’M WRITING. That’s the only land acknowledgement you’ll ever get from me: University of Washington professor wins $600,000 settlement over parody land acknowledgment
IT DOESN’T PAY TO CENSOR: Censored: Prof who satirized university’s ‘land acknowledgement’ sued: Here’s the result
October 8, 2026
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY, NOT THE KIDS: The Education Cartel and the Blue State School Scam
AND STILL SINKING, I’D SAY: A New Low
BIG TIME. It’s ten times worse than you think: The public substantially underestimates the ideological imbalance of the professoriate. When people learn how lopsided it really is, confidence declines. Reality turns out to be lousy PR.
THE COMING COLLAPSE? $400K for AI Cheaters Luxury Camp: How many colleges will survive?
“I just don’t see a world in which parents continue to indefinitely fork up nearly half a million to send their kids to AI Cheating Young Adult Luxury Camp,” tweets Tyler Austin Harper, a professor turned Atlantic writer. “Some will, but how many? Enough to sustain most colleges?”
He envisions a “black-swan-esque event where significant chunks of higher ed collapse suddenly.” Colleges are playing chicken with parents, he tweets. “The wager seems to be that college is so entrenched as the default that parents will continue to pay for it even as the value proposition and quality collapse due to AI. I think that bluff gets called.”
The Syracuse University is in trouble, reports Douglas Belkin and Roshan Fernandez in the Wall Street Journal. Total cost of attendance at the private university increased to $98,544 this year. Enrollment fell short.
Syracuse borrowed “nearly half a billion in debt to build desperately needed new dorms,” they write. To fill the dorms, the university may need to lower admissions standards, risking its prestige and reducing its appeal to students whose parents can pay tuition.
WHERE WE ARE:
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Texas pushes three-year bachelor’s degrees to cut college costs.
October 7, 2026
BUT SHE CAN’T ADMIT IT: Nikole Hannah-Jones Fails the Test
THE DAM IS ABOUT TO BURST:
WHERE THERE’S ONE . . . : U. Missouri suspends staffer who told undercover reporter DEI continues.
THE ENEMY WITHIN: Higher Ed’s Secret Foreign Funding.
UNIVERSITIES SHOULD NOT EXIST IF THIS IS THEIR MODEL OF “EXCELLENCE: The equity excellence trade-off: A study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program. The analysis reveals that EDI has actively weakened Canadian research and reduced overall academic performance at Canadian universities.
TRUE, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE TOO MANY ADMINISTRATORS: Most universities have ‘too many academic programs,’ chief business officers say.
FIXING FAILING U.S. SCHOOLS In addition to failing to address the teacher-union issue, The New York Times panel also neglected the state of the nation’s schools of education, which renowned economics professor Walter Williams called “the academic slums of most any college.” A paper in the journal Education Policy Analysis Archives supports Williams’ assertion, finding that education majors face considerably lower grading standards than other college students.
Some leading education authorities overlook key points for improving America’s failing schools.
On Sept. 28, The New York Times published a story titled 30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts. The subhead read, “Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?”
October 6, 2026
BUT SHE CAN’T ADMIT IT: Nikole Hannah-Jones Fails the Test
THE DAM IS ABOUT TO BURST:
WHERE THERE’S ONE . . . : U. Missouri suspends staffer who told undercover reporter DEI continues.
THE ENEMY WITHIN: Higher Ed’s Secret Foreign Funding.
UNIVERSITIES SHOULD NOT EXIST IF THIS IS THEIR MODEL OF “EXCELLENCE: The equity excellence trade-off: A study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program. The analysis reveals that EDI has actively weakened Canadian research and reduced overall academic performance at Canadian universities.
TRUE, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE TOO MANY ADMINISTRATORS: Most universities have ‘too many academic programs,’ chief business officers say.
FIXING FAILING U.S. SCHOOLS In addition to failing to address the teacher-union issue, The New York Times panel also neglected the state of the nation’s schools of education, which renowned economics professor Walter Williams called “the academic slums of most any college.” A paper in the journal Education Policy Analysis Archives supports Williams’ assertion, finding that education majors face considerably lower grading standards than other college students.
Some leading education authorities overlook key points for improving America’s failing schools.
On Sept. 28, The New York Times published a story titled 30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts. The subhead read, “Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?”
October 5, 2026
THE IVY LEAGUE WAS ALWAYS OVERRATED: “Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues”
IT’S COME TO THIS: WATCH 4th-grader ask school board for protection from potential ‘trans’ teacher
SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? ‘Footage of him setting it’: High-school principal jailed for allegedly placing hidden cameras in girls’ locker rooms
INSTEAD, WHAT THEY GET IS THE EVILS OF CAPITALISM: Every State Needs To Follow Florida In Teaching Kids About Communism’s Terrors.
October 2, 2026
STANFORD IS GOOD IN STEM FIELDS BUT THAT’S IT: Stanford takes top spot in TIME’s new national college rankings, with four California schools in top 10
SECOND-TIER ADMINISTRATORS ARE RUNNING THE SHOW: George Washington U. skirted race ban with essays to favor black applicants, DOJ finds.
A BETTER RULE WOULD BE: YOU CAN GO TO ANY COLLEGE YOU WANT BELOW THE MASON-DIXON LINE (EXLUDING DUKE, VANDERBILT, AND ANYTHING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA): My kids can go to any college they want — but I won’t pay for Harvard or Columbia.
THIS IS SO EMBARRASSINGLY RETRO: University of Alaska Anchorage screens Master of Social Work applicants for ‘anti-racism’ commitment.
October 1, 2026
FIRST RULE OF ACADEMIC FIGHT CLUB: YOU’RE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD! El-Sayed’s Sister Said The Quiet Part Out Loud About Activist Profs Politically Proselytizing Students.
CORRUPTION ALERT! Stunner: Massive potential fraud in one city’s schools
IF YOU WANT TO SAVE THE UNIVERSITY FINANCIALLY, FIRE 50% OF THE ADMINISTRATORS. This plan has the added benefit of making the university more efficient and hospitable: Minnesota State Mankato set to lay off employees and raise tuition to combat deficit.
DO AMERICA’S SO-CALLED “ED” SCHOOLS BEAR SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS 30-YEAR EPIDEMIC OF FEMALE TEACHERS SEXUALLY ABUSING CHILDREN? Teacher accused of ‘Scream’ mask orgies with students finally gets divorced.