Nathaniel Urban is a development associate at the National Association of Scholars (NAS) and coauthor of Waste Land: The Education Department’s Profligacy, Mediocrity, and Radicalism.
The left opposes non-governmental organizations (NGOs) influencing education policy—unless those NGOs align with its values. If those NGOs appear conservative, i.e., anti-union, anti-bureaucratic, or anti-LGBT, they face resistance. But if your NGO wants to teach students about the gender unicorn, education policy may just be the right place to be. Much to my discouragement, this […]
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“We can’t hold them. The city is lost.” “Tell the men to break cover. We ride for Minas Tirith.” So Faramir, captain of Gondor and son of the steward, says to his lieutenant during the battle of Osgiliath. It is a pivotal scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King that […]
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The Department of Education (ED) is a bloated bureaucracy feeding off taxpayer dollars and far removed from understanding school districts’ needs. A new report, Waste Land: The Department’s Profligacy, Mediocrity, and Radicalism, lays out exactly where the Trump administration should cut, reallocate, or eliminate wasteful programs. One case study in the report proves what conservatives […]
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