Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from an article originally published by Diogenes In Exile on June 23, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Reclaiming Education: Three Legislative Fixes to Push Back Against Ideological Capture It may be difficult to focus on the arcane issues of higher education with the […]
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The debate on whether “going soft on crimes” reduces recidivism and improves rehabilitation is at best unsettled. A 2023 meta-analysis suggests “minimal support for the effectiveness of restorative justice programs in reducing recidivism.” There are also grim realities of rising urban crimes following California’s passage of Proposition 47, which enacted sweeping criminal justice reforms to […]
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On Wednesday, June 25, 2025, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner announced the relocation of HUD headquarters to Alexandria, Virginia, where National Science Foundation (NSF) staff are currently sited. As NBC4 Washington reported, NSF employees promptly staged a protest, filling the hallways in Alexandria, chanting, shaking their fists, and forcing HUD’s press announcement […]
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One of America’s most perceptive and productive scholars of our nation’s education system is Frederick M. Hess of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He, along with an associate, Richard Keck, has produced a tremendous study, “Putting ‘Education’ Back in Higher Ed,” for AEI. A rarity these days: I agree with virtually every word they said. […]
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For many college students, course difficulty doesn’t always reflect effort or intelligence. An English major might breeze through novels but panic during a chemistry midterm. A biology student may ace molecular pathways but dread every writing assignment. These struggles aren’t signs of inadequacy—they reflect the mental pivot students must make between disciplines. What seems “hard” […]
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Ohio SB 1, which will do an extraordinary amount to depoliticize Ohio’s public higher education system, strengthen intellectual diversity, and restore its accountability to Ohio policymakers and citizens, well and truly will become law. Governor Mike DeWine signed SB 1 into law at the end of March. Since then, Ohio professors organized a petition campaign […]
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