Wai Wah Chin
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Pervasive social-emotional learning brings Big Brother to the classroom
Here’s the dystopian scene: Students nationwide can’t read or do math at basic levels and don’t know elementary science or history facts, but there’s a big program to rewire their...
NYC public schools are focused on ideology — and failing kids
It’s back-to-school time in New York City, but the Department of Education isn’t ready. As the DOE faces the new academic year, let’s bring out its latest report card to...
Mamdani fans have no clue of the horror 'socialists in a hurry' unleash
Mamdani’s smiling, youthful energy attracted many real 20- and 30-year-old New Yorkers, as well as many older twenty-something-at-hearts. Yet wiser and more sober minds know just how such notions would...
Teacher hiring spree isn't about students, it's about pandering to the union
New York City hiring 3,700 more teachers is not about learning, students, budgets or results — it’s about union power.
Fed-up parents' novel education lawsuit is a chance to rescue our schools — and get rid of the lemons
With precious few exceptions, American schools are graduating more and more students who are illiterate, innumerable, illogical, and ignorant.
NY's Prop 1: A legal Trojan horse smuggling discrimination
The ballot measure sneaks bans of a whopping 11 new categories of sweepingly, vaguely defined discrimination into the state Constitution, all within the Trojan horse of abortion rights.
NYC landlord case shows DA Alvin Bragg's unequal justice
Bragg’s hyper-selective prosecutions prove that the law is a vehicle for his political agenda, which stands above everyone and everything else.
NY's faux abortion amendment is a sneaky leftist wishlist
New York’s sweeping “Equal Protection of Law Amendment” is headed for November’s ballot — and if it passes, will gut parents' rights, restrict free speech, and make reverse discrimination the...
DEI math-ed prof who helped get algebra banned in ’Frisco is accused of faulty research
On Wednesday, a 100-page complaint was filed against her, citing 52 instances of misrepresentation in her research citations.
The College Board is dumbing down its SAT test again — doing no one any favors
Just as top colleges are getting courageous enough to say they really do need standardized tests to identify top students, the College Board, maker of the SAT, is sabotaging itself.
Critical Race Theory is the new segregation across schools nationwide
Since the public became aware of critical race theory a few years ago, it’s subverted almost every aspect of America’s fabric.
Kathy Hochul's SUNY/CUNY admission scheme is simply more unfair racial discrimination
Gov. Hochul announced that every New York high-school student graduating in the top 10% of the class will get automatic admission to SUNY and the City University of New York.
Reparations are the new affirmative action — and even more racist and divisive
Is affirmative action dead?
New York's educrats can't educate — now they want to hide it by ditching Regents exams
The proposal the New York State Education Department just presented to the Board of Regents says students would no longer need to pass five Regents exams to graduate high school.
What's really at the root of anti-Jewish hate on college campuses
It is the DSA that enjoys coherence between core ideology and Jew-hatred; it has the upperhand and is surely gaining. To our Jewish Democratic-voting friends: Are you ready for this future...
As colleges rush to keep discriminating, the Supreme Court should 'ban the box' on racial ID
Expect the multibillion-dollar Diversity, Equity, Inclusion industrial complex to rack its brains finding schemes to circumvent the SFFA ruling.
Parents, beware: NYC specialized high schools are coming under attack again
State Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt and Assemblyman William Colton (D-Brooklyn) are calling on parents to prepare to mobilize as the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test is under attack yet...
Even as our students fail, NYC teachers rewarded with generous contract
In a time of fiscal constraints and terrible test results, we should have gotten a more measured contract that kept in mind students — the ultimate reason why our schools...
Democrats: I am not your human shield, and it's not anti-Asian to criticize Beijing's dangerous regime
More and more people are realizing the People’s Republic of China is not America’s friend.
China's spy balloon should be a wake-up call — about US schools
The alarming and well-covered story of the Chinese spy balloon highlights the gap in education between the United States and China.