The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to move forward with gutting the Department of Education in the latest legal win for the White House as it seeks to effectively dismantle the department.

WASHINGTON — A national private school voucher program is now law, though the school choice initiative comes with a huge caveat. States also choose — whether or not to participate.  It’s a setback for advocates who hoped to see the program — baked into the mega tax and spending cut bill President Donald Trump signed […]

A new law in Texas threatens to transform social media platforms into "overzealous censors," the tech industry funded group Chamber of Progress told a federal appellate court.

The National Academy for AI Instruction will make artificial intelligence training accessible to educators across the country.

The predictable consequences of the right wing’s war on public schools are being felt as educators leave their communities—and their profession.

The Supreme Court says President Trump can fire Education Department staff and dismantle its programs.

 The "big tent" of media literacy is getting bigger. That's the main reason why it was a joy to attend the NAMLE 2025 conference this year. Elizabeth Ortiz, Conference Co-Chair, welcomed attendees and emphasized that there's a moment for media literacy now that AI is on the rise.  Media Production Matters

Charles Lindbergh became an instant American hero when he piloted the Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris in 1927, the first person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic.

Lindbergh was an icon in Europe as well, and he moved to England in the late 1930s. By 1941, though, he was back home, touring the U.S. as the leading voice of the America First Committee — an isolationist group of some 800,000 members that claimed England was trying to drag America into a war he thought it should avoid.

"I have been forced to the conclusion that we cannot win this war for England regardless of how much assistance we send. That is why the America First Committee has been formed," Lindbergh said in 1941, just months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the U.S. into World War II.

A few momentous years later, after the devastation of the war, isolationism was out of fashion. Instead, America became the driving force in establishing a global web that defines the world to this day — NATO, the United Nations, a strong U.S. military presence in Asia, open seas, a host of trade agreements.

These arrangements are now being challenged by President Trump. He has often described them as a burden the U.S. should shed, and he has distilled his approach into the phrase "America First."

"From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it's going to be only America first, America first," Trump said at his inaugural on Jan. 20.

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Researchers at Princeton University say some instances corresponded with national attacks on DEI initiatives as well as on LGBTQ+ policies and that the targets held a variety of political views.

Millions of American children were denied regular in-person instruction for more than a year after the virus emerged. What did we get right—and wrong?

The State University System Board of Governors moved forward Friday on creating a new university accreditation agency, even as the board’s chair acknowledged a “lot of questions” about liability, organizational structure, and the intent of the agency.  The Commission for Public Higher Education, intended by Gov. Ron DeSantis to “upend” “woke accreditation cartels,” got a […]

Long thought to be completely disordered, space ice appears to have some crystallized regions, new research suggests.

School boards must have a policy that requires devices to be turned off during instructional time. Schools will also be required to teach social media literacy and implement internet safety and security measures.

The Trump administration had appealed a decision that had directed it to stop gutting the U.S. Education Department and to reinstate many of the workers the government had laid off.

The University of Virginia Faculty Senate has voted it has no confidence in the school’s Board of Visitors by a margin of 46 to 6, with 8 senators abstaining.

Housed in an unremarkable office block in the captial, the country’s national museum is home to the most extensive collection of the remains of modern humans’ ancestors – and a team of world-leading scholars

Six months ago, January 6, 2021, the United States government was toppled in a coup d’etat. It was led by President Donald Trump in which thousands of protesters at the “Stop the Steal” rally stormed the capitol. It was a medieval siege. The insurgent mob – waving American flags, Trump flags, Confederate flags, Gadsden flags (“Dont Tread on Me”), Vietnamese flags, Arizona flags – were armed with bats, hockey sticks, tear gas, bear spray, hand guns, knives, hatchets, hammers etc. They were intent on overturning the election of President Joe Biden and retaining Donald Trump as president.

To describe the uprising as anything but a coup is a serious mistake. It was a four-hour attack in which the Capitol of the United States was overrun by hundreds of right-wing militias. Thousands were outside watching and waiting. The insurrectionists took control of the House and Senate, and in so doing, the United States government. Members of Congress were evacuated (rescued) by capitol police. Offices and conference rooms were breached and sacked; they were tracking down members of Congress. One of their goals was to assassinate Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Vice President Mike Pence, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts. Liberals and democrats were no doubt prime targets, especially young Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And their task once breaching the Capitol was to place their “heads on pikes.”

After several hours, Capitol Police and the DC National Guard cleared the Capitol and restored order.

But make no mistake about it, the government of the United States was overthrown on January 6th. A total and complete coup would have involved a military junta which did not materialize. Perhaps because Trump lost his nerve in calling for martial law or those instigators of the coup backed off. Whatever the case, under those circumstances Trump would have been well within the “lawful” rights of his executive power to invoke the Insurrection Act. The Patriot Act and the National Defense Authorization Act also contain provisions in the event of insurrection and martial law.

As described by counter terrorism expert Malcolm Nance, the insurrection served as a “false flag” operation which would justify the “legitimate” use of force, transforming the United States into a police state.

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In the years before the outbreak of World War II, people of German ancestry living abroad were encouraged to form citizens groups to both extol “German virtues,” around the world, and to lobby for causes helpful to Nazi Party goals.

In the United States, the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund, or German American Bund, was formed in 1936 as “an organization of patriotic Americans of German stock,” operating about 20 youth and training camps, and eventually growing to a membership in the tens of thousands among 70 regional divisions across the country.  

On February 20, 1939, the Bund held an “Americanization” rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden, denouncing Jewish conspiracies, President Roosevelt, and others. The rally, attended by 20,000 supporters and members, was protested by huge crowds of anti-Nazis, who were held back by 1,500 NYC police officers.

As World War II began in 1939, the German American Bund fell apart, many of its assets were seized, and its leader arrested for embezzlement, and later deported to Germany.

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Scientists warn that “the cuts would prevent the US from training and preparing the next generation of the scientific and technical workforce.”