Writings by Topic: Education
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Publication |
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| Duolingo made me do it |
Arguable |
December 2, 2025 |
| Trump's attack on in-state tuition for Dreamers is bad law — and worse policy |
The Boston Globe |
July 20, 2025 |
| Tests used to be hard. That was the point. |
Arguable |
July 15, 2025 |
| A student's T-shirt says: 'There are only two genders.' What does the Constitution say? |
The Boston Globe |
December 4, 2024 |
| Oklahoma urges private groups to launch charter schools — as long as they're not religious |
The Boston Globe |
October 16, 2024 |
| One columnist's ballot guide: Yes on 1. No on 2, 3, 4, and 5. |
The Boston Globe |
October 13, 2024 |
| Will making community college free make it better? |
The Boston Globe |
July 28, 2024 |
| Trump among the libertarians |
Arguable |
May 7, 2024 |
| The seventh-grader and the First Amendment |
The Boston Globe |
February 14, 2024 |
| At Columbia Law School, only one student club was rejected this year — the one formed to oppose antisemitism |
The Boston Globe |
February 7, 2024 |
| Give Newton's teachers an ultimatum: Return to work or forfeit your jobs |
The Boston Globe |
January 31, 2024 |
| A generation of antisemites |
The Boston Globe |
December 20, 2023 |
| The schoolboy and the Gadsden flag |
Arguable |
September 5, 2023 |
| You can name the Three Stooges. Can you name your three members of Congress? |
The Boston Globe / Arguable |
July 26, 2023 |
| The mendacious assault on Florida's new curriculum |
Arguable |
July 25, 2023 |
| Hypocrisy at Middlebury College |
The Boston Globe |
June 18, 2023 |
| Oklahoma says yes to a religious charter school. So does the First Amendment. |
The Boston Globe |
June 11, 2023 |
| Middlebury College flunks a history test |
The Boston Globe |
June 4, 2023 |
| Did the Varsity Blues prosecutions really belong in federal court? |
The Boston Globe |
May 17, 2023 |
| Woke is easy to define. It's harder to fight. |
The Boston Globe / Arguable |
March 28, 2023 |
| For public school teachers, there can be no right to strike |
The Boston Globe |
January 22, 2023 |
| In-state tuition isn't an immigration issue |
The Boston Globe |
January 18, 2023 |
| The school that sabotaged its standout students |
The Boston Globe |
January 5, 2023 |
| Harvey for Harvard |
The Boston Globe |
October 30, 2022 |
| Congress sued to block Trump's illegal spending. Now it should sue to block Biden's |
The Boston Globe |
September 11, 2022 |
| Who needs Title IX now? |
The Boston Globe |
July 26, 2022 |
| What Harvard means by 'diversity' |
The Boston Globe / Arguable |
July 21, 2022 |
| Informers on campus |
The Boston Globe |
July 13, 2022 |
| Is George Washington fit only for contempt? |
The Boston Globe |
May 18, 2022 |
| Canceling student debt will make things worse |
The Boston Globe |
May 1, 2022 |
| The blessing of 'rote' memory |
The Boston Globe |
April 20, 2022 |
| At the University of Massachusetts, STEM professors resist indoctrination |
The Boston Globe |
March 6, 2022 |
| More education choices, fewer education fights |
The Boston Globe |
January 30, 2022 |
| Jewish Study for Non-Jewish Clergy |
Sapir |
Winter 2022 |
| The rise of the 'school board voters' |
The Boston Globe |
November 3, 2021 |
| The problem with Holocaust education |
The Boston Globe |
April 7, 2021 |
| Race-based admissions are wrong, and it's time the Supreme Court said so |
The Boston Globe |
March 7, 2021 |
| My JD doesn't make me a doctor. Jill Biden's EdD doesn't make her one, either |
Arguable |
December 14, 2020 |
| A student debt bailout would be unjust and unwise |
The Boston Globe |
November 22, 2020 |
| Our guest speaker today, class, is a Jew-hating terrorist |
The Boston Globe |
September 16, 2020 |
| Is English grammar racist? |
Arguable |
July 27, 2020 |
| The enemies of Prop 209 |
The Boston Globe |
May 20, 2020 |
| Biden was right. Busing was wrong |
The Boston Globe |
July 3, 2019 |
| Non-diversity and the spelling bee |
The Boston Globe |
June 5, 2019 |
| Special Olympics can soar on its own |
The Boston Globe |
April 3, 2019 |
| At Smith College, the racist incident that wasn't |
The Boston Globe |
August 8, 2018 |
| Thirty years of 'varsity academics' |
The Boston Globe |
April 2, 2017 |
| School choice keeps the peace |
The Boston Globe |
February 12, 2017 |
| Don't raise the charter-school cap. Eliminate it |
The Boston Globe |
November 2, 2016 |
| Making college 'free' will only make it worse |
The Boston Globe |
July 13, 2016 |
| 'Mismatched' black students pay the price of affirmative action |
The Boston Globe |
December 16, 2015 |
| Repeal that law school |
The Boston Globe |
May 13, 2015 |
| A pro-terror rally on a Palestinian campus |
The Boston Globe |
November 24, 2013 |
| Wellesley faculty defend an endangered 'colleague' – in China |
The Boston Globe |
September 18, 2013 |
| At Harvard, the right not to be offended trumps academic freedom |
The Boston Globe |
May 22, 2013 |
| Education liberation |
The Boston Globe |
March 10, 2013 |
| Columnist reflects on the late John Silber |
Morning Edition on WBUR |
September 28, 2012 |
| The higher-ed bubble is bound to burst |
The Boston Globe |
September 12, 2012 |
| The government's college money pit |
The Boston Globe |
April 29, 2012 |
| Santorum's 'snob' was no gaffe |
The Boston Globe |
March 4, 2012 |
| The affirmative-action myth |
The Boston Globe |
December 23, 2011 |
| An 'end point' for race-based admissions |
The Boston Globe |
December 18, 2011 |
| Making Americans |
The Boston Globe |
November 23, 2011 |
| Who cares about US history? |
The Boston Globe |
June 19, 2011 |
| Give peace a chance with government-free schools |
The Boston Globe |
May 30, 2010 |
| Liberal grit in the fight for school choice |
The Boston Globe |
May 16, 2010 |
| How to fix 'the mistake on the lake' |
The Boston Globe |
March 17, 2010 |
| Uniform standards are not a good fit |
The Boston Globe |
March 6, 2010 |
| Paying the price for a UMass law school |
The Boston Globe |
February 7, 2010 |
| Silence the idiot box |
The Boston Globe |
September 27, 2009 |
| How Obama can fix education |
The Boston Globe |
December 3, 2008 |
| Big Brother at school |
The Boston Globe |
October 17, 2007 |
| A call for separation of school and state |
The Boston Globe |
March 4, 2007 |
| Anti-military bigotry by the Bay |
The Boston Globe |
November 19, 2006 |
| Public schools vs. parents' values |
The Boston Globe |
April 26, 2006 |
| Driving up the cost of college |
The Boston Globe |
February 10, 2005 |
| Musings, random and otherwise |
The Boston Globe |
December 23, 2004 |
| A left-wing monopoly on campuses |
The Boston Globe |
December 2, 2004 |
| The ignorant American voter |
The Boston Globe |
October 24, 2004 |
| Making the case for parochial school |
The Boston Globe |
May 9, 2004 |
| Out of a job he should never have had |
The Boston Globe |
August 10, 2003 |
| English 101 |
The Boston Globe |
October 3, 2002 |
| The face of antisemitism |
The Boston Globe |
September 26, 2002 |
| The new civil rights champions |
The Boston Globe |
July 11, 2002 |
| Harvard's new president caves under pressure |
The Boston Globe |
January 6, 2002 |
| The littlest peacemakers |
The Boston Globe |
December 23, 2001 |
| An unbiased eye for education |
The Boston Globe |
August 2, 2001 |
| Bigoted man on campus |
The Boston Globe |
July 2, 2001 |
| If Pell grants are lawful, vouchers are too |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 2000 |
| The 'MCAS' teens give each other |
The Boston Globe |
December 4, 2000 |
| MCAS-takers don't know how good they have it |
The Boston Globe |
June 26, 2000 |
| The poor favor school choice |
The Boston Globe |
December 27, 1999 |
| Ed reform earns an F |
The Boston Globe |
December 2, 1999 |
| Where were the adults? |
The Boston Globe |
April 26, 1999 |
| Busing's legacy: racial isolation |
The Boston Globe |
January 7, 1999 |
| Garrity's folly: 25 years after busing began |
The Boston Globe |
January 4, 1999 |
| The real racism in 'Nappy Hair' |
The Boston Globe |
December 21, 1998 |
| In academia, free speech is out and speech codes are in |
The Boston Globe |
October 19, 1998 |
| PC police are spoiling it for kids who play soccer |
The Boston Globe |
June 2, 1998 |
| The classroom culture that spawned Kip Kinkel |
The Boston Globe |
May 28, 1998 |
| Suspicions about the statewide tests |
The Boston Globe |
May 7, 1998 |
| Why Johnny can't read more than three 'white' books |
The Boston Globe |
March 19, 1998 |
| Charter schools' misguided foes |
The Boston Globe |
March 5, 1998 |
| Charter schools offer 'a ray of hope' |
The Boston Globe |
February 19, 1998 |
| An inspirational teacher of law |
The Boston Globe |
October 16, 1997 |
| At UMass, student lawbreaking has grown routine |
The Boston Globe |
June 3, 1997 |
| On college campuses, all is not yet lost |
The Boston Globe |
May 29, 1997 |
| Though officials deny it, apartheid rules at UMass-Amherst |
The Boston Globe |
May 8, 1997 |
| Kids learn nothing from TV, and that includes 'Sesame Street' |
The Boston Globe |
April 17, 1997 |
| Bigotry in black and white |
The Boston Globe |
March 11, 1997 |
| Education inflation |
The Boston Globe |
February 6, 1997 |
| The self-esteem movement goes off the deep end |
The Boston Globe |
January 23, 1997 |
| Why is the state so secretive about its standardized tests? |
The Boston Globe |
December 10, 1996 |
| Why Johnny still can't read (or write or do math) |
The Boston Globe |
October 29, 1996 |
| The low state of higher education |
The Boston Globe |
October 15, 1996 |
| A letter to Johnathan |
The Boston Globe |
October 3, 1996 |
| The teachers we remember |
The Boston Globe |
May 9, 1996 |
| Intolerance at Brookline High |
The Boston Globe |
March 19, 1996 |
| 'Alarming facts' about boys and girls |
The Boston Globe |
February 6, 1996 |
| The vandals of history |
The Boston Globe |
December 19, 1995 |
| Another blow to UMass's reputation |
The Boston Globe |
November 28, 1995 |
| Stopping PIRG's scam |
The Boston Globe |
July 27, 1995 |
| Politics and Higher Ed 101 |
The Boston Globe |
June 22, 1995 |
| The sorry state of state colleges |
The Boston Globe |
June 20, 1995 |
| The government's assault on higher education |
The Boston Globe |
June 1, 1995 |
| A two-front war against MassPIRG's duplicity |
The Boston Globe |
April 13, 1995 |
| What does Harvard have against teen killers? |
The Boston Globe |
April 11, 1995 |
| BC's snub can't hurt Thatcher's reputation |
The Boston Globe |
March 9, 1995 |
| When the lesson is sensitive, parents should be in charge |
The Boston Globe |
March 7, 1995 |
| What 'Facing History' really teaches |
The Boston Globe |
January 17, 1995 |
| When judges blunder, the remedy is impeachment |
The Boston Globe |
June 28, 1994 |
| What's morality got to do with it? |
The Boston Globe |
May 24, 1994 |
| The Left hates that Kirkpatrick was right |
The Boston Globe |
May 10, 1994 |
| Defeating the Blob that runs the public schools |
The Boston Globe |
April 28, 1994 |
| A 39-point blueprint for ignorance |
The Boston Globe |
March 24, 1994 |
| Old school, new look |
The Jerusalem Report |
April 4, 1991 |
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