Year: 2026

Think Higher Education Has Clear Standards for Academic Freedom? Think Again.

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Noelle McAffee, a philosophy professor at Emory University, and two colleagues were arrested by university police in April 2024 during pro-Palestine protests on campus. The three faculty members filed a complaint against their university, arguing that Emory violated its own free expression policy. Every week seems to bring a new controversy regarding sus...

The Solution Nikole Hannah-Jones Didn’t Take

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“Did you know my school was bad like this when you decided to put me here?” Najya asked her mother, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the New York Times reporter and creator of the bestselling book and television series The 1619 Project. Najya was enrolled in the Urban Assembly Unison School, a low-performing New York City middle school. “You know what I am talking ...

Snap Judgment – by Joshua Dunn

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To what extent does the First Amendment apply to students’ off-campus communications on the Internet? Do schools have the authority to punish students for offensive messages they send via social media? Four years ago, Martha Derthick and I argued that the U.S. Supreme Court would eventually be drawn into the debate over off-campus cyber-speech (see “Digital Discipline,” legal ...

EdNext Podcast: Charter Schools in the Real Wild West – by Education Next

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In many western states, charter schools operate with little regulation or oversight. Matt Ladner joins Marty West on the podcast to defend this approach to charter school policy. Ladner, a senior research fellow at the Charles Koch Institute, is the author of “In Defense of Education’s ‘Wild West.’” The EdNext Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Sou...

Straight Up Conversation: Build UP Founder Mark Martin – by Frederick Hess

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Mark Martin recently launched Build Urban Prosperity in Birmingham, Alabama. Build UP is a workforce development model. It seeks to provide low-income youth with career-ready skills through paid apprenticeships coupled with appropriate academic coursework. Mark has spent more than 15 years as an educator, co-founding New Orleans’ Langston Hughes Academy charter school and...