Archive for category: Education

• 32 Percent Racial Divide in Graduation Rates of NCAA Tourney Athletes

  By Noah Kaplan, Education, Issue Areas, Race and Immigration March 15, 2011 11:00 am no comments

  It’s March and that means it’s time for March Madness, time for everyone to fill out their bracket, join a pool, and sneakily watch games online instead of doing work. All of this fun is created by the presence of student-athletes at America’s Division I colleges and universities, and we need to remember that these people are students, as well as athletes. The racial graduation gap has grown from 22 percent in 2009 to a current level of 32 percent.

   

• Fairness in College Justice – Where Are We Now?

  By Stephen Henrick, Education, Issue Areas, Outside Author March 15, 2011 10:43 am 1 comment

  By Stephen Henrick “It is shocking,” wrote Professor Warren Seavy, “that the officials of a state educational institution, which can function properly only if our freedoms are preserved, should not understand the elementary principles of fair play. It is equally shocking to find that a court supports them in denying [...]

   

• Sixth Circuit: Tennessee school's Confederate flag display ban does not violate the First Amendment

  By Jon Cioschi, Courts, Education, First Amendment, Issue Areas, Race and Immigration November 19, 2010 10:44 pm 1 comment

  Yesterday, the Sixth Circuit handed down a decision upholding a Tennessee school’s ban on sporting Confederate flag-emblazoned clothing.  The plaintiff, a student named William Defoe, claimed that his First Amendment rights were violated when he was sent home and suspended for insubordination for wearing a Confederate flag-emblazoned T-shirt and belt [...]

   

• Constitutional Revisionism

  By Noah Kaplan, Education, First Amendment, Issue Areas, Voting and Elections October 28, 2010 12:53 pm 1 comment

  There was a collective gasp and not a small chuckle from the left at Christine O’Donnell’s recent demand that her opponent, Chris Coons, show her where in the Constitution is separation of church of state. “You’re telling me that’s in the first amendment?” As easy as it may be for [...]