“Education” on The Daily Caller

The White House has produced a new campaign-style video highlighting Vice President Joe Biden’s low-key education policy pitches in three swing states. (more)

As school choice becomes more integrated into the fabric of American public education, teachers’ unions have been using a new tactic to fight these reforms: the lawsuit. And it’s making for strange bedfellows. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Apple is scheduling a media event in New York next week, but the company isn’t saying much about the topic it plans to discuss. (more)

For a number of years now, I’ve been closely tracking the way that Title IX has been enforced in American athletics. While most people still associate Title IX and its rigid gender quotas with colleges and universities, enforcement of the law has now reached elementary and secondary education — and many of the effects of the law are quite shocking to the uninitiated. (more)

With the New Year upon us, pundits are handing out their “best and worst” awards and gossip magazines their “top whatever” lists. Well, on my list, you won’t find Occupy Wall Street or No Child Left Behind drama, but something much more significant to taxpayers, parents, and citizens: the top five underreported education stories of 2011. (more)

As children, we often spoke about what we wanted to be when we “grew up.” Many of us identified with those professionals we viewed as heroic — policemen, firemen, or fighter pilots. Other children were drawn to the glamour that comes with being an actor, a sports star, or even a president. (more)

Whenever the president or members of Congress do things that people don’t like, they’re accused of acting like children. As a former child, I am offended by this statement. In kindergarten, if my teacher had ever accused our class of acting like a bunch of members of Congress, we would have burst out in tears. (more)

It was nearing lunchtime on a recent Thursday, and ninth-grader Noah Schnacky of Windermere, Fla., really did not want to go to algebra. So he didn’t. (more)

Coloradans have said no to higher education taxes, voting down Proposition 103 by a two-to-one margin. There was good reason for that decision. Total per-pupil spending in Colorado has more than doubled since 1970, even after accounting for inflation. The same is true at the national level. Over that same period, student achievement at the end of high school has stagnated in math and reading and declined in science. So raising taxes has a long record of educational failure. Surprisingly enough, lowering them actually works. (more)

By the end of the day today, 16 more young Americans will be murdered. (more)

In the 1960s, the late New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D) used conservative, market-based, competitive forces to create new jobs in the inner-city wasteland of the minority neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. A cynical New York City reporter (a redundant expression) was heard to mutter, as he heard Kennedy’s pro-market, pro-business ideas to help the poor, “You sound like Barry Goldwater.” Legend has it that Kennedy responded: “Maybe, but I know that I mean it.” (more)

Nearly a year ago, I noted how 2010 had been “a very bad year” for defenders of the education status quo, or as I may have called them, “antediluvian, retrograde, establishment-defending hacks.” So far, 2011 isn’t pretty either. (more)

“For over a hundred years,” F.A. Hayek wrote in 1961, “we have been exhorted to embrace socialism because it would give us more goods. Since it has so lamentably failed to achieve this … we are now urged to adopt it because more goods after all are not important.” (more)

Several members of Congress joined 80 pre-school students from the Sunshine Early Learning Center on Thursday to help as they read the book “Llama Llama Red Pajama.” (more)

When is 400,000 not 400,000? (more)

Mahmoud Abbas is not interested in peace with Israel. He made that abundantly clear last month when he declared, “We shall not recognize a Jewish state,” and when the Palestinian government released a logo on its website that literally wiped Israel off the map. Trying to impose a Palestinian state was just the latest effort to delegitimize and demonize Israel. For the moment, it appears this effort has failed. (more)

Daniel Webster was the most famous lawyer of his day. In 1819, the “Godlike Daniel” stood before the U.S. Supreme Court and argued passionately for the right of Dartmouth College to govern itself, and not to be brought under the rule of the New Hampshire legislature. Webster appealed to the Constitution, arguing that New Hampshire’s actions would violate the provision that forbade states to “impair the obligations of contract.” But the emotional power of his argument caught the attention of Chief Justice John Marshall and Justice Joseph Story — and, in truth, captured the hearts of the country. (more)

Administration officials are organizing a coalition of political advocates to push for federal oversight of schoolrooms to protect teens who say they are insulted or injured by their high school peers, often because the teens describe themselves as gay or lesbian. (more)

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York prosecutor says she’s investigating whether students at other schools were participating in an SAT cheating ring. (more)

In his weekly video address Saturday, President Obama advocated for his American Jobs Act by focusing on the essential role that education plays in moving the economy forward. “If we’re serious about building an economy that lasts…we’d better be serious about education,” the president said. (more)