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Harvard Now Offers Remedial Math Acknowledging America’s Math Collapse

April 16, 2025 2:55 amApril 16, 2025 2:56 am

There is a lack of foundational algebra skills among American students. According to the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress math exam, 73 percent of eighth graders nationwide taking the test failed to score at the proficient level. Lance Izumi, senior director...

It’s UCLA’s Turn in the Hot Seat: Chancellor to Appear before Congress Thursday AM

May 22, 2024 3:15 pmMay 22, 2024 3:15 pm

The past couple of months have been a rather trying time for UCLA Chancellor Gene Block. And it won’t get any better Thursday. Block has been called to testify by the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce...

Anatomy of a Smear

March 21, 2024 8:51 amMarch 22, 2024 4:09 am

This week, a story caught fire. It accused Jared Kushner, former Senior Advisor to President Trump, of advocating for the dislocation of Palestinians in Gaza and the seizing of their “valuable” water-front land, presumably to be exploited by Israelis, and...

Congress Probing Berkeley Over Anti-Semitism

March 19, 2024 4:17 pmMarch 19, 2024 4:17 pm

You can now add the University of California, Berkeley to the list of high profile, high powered universities that are being investigated by Congress over how they have reacted to the wave of antisemitism that has roiled campuses since the...

Opinion: Too Left, Even for Me

January 22, 2024 11:21 amJanuary 22, 2024 11:55 am

If you have kept up with the flurry of news articles coming in from the East Coast, you know that the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT were under extreme pressure recently from disgruntled donors, the communities, and Congress to...

The Greenberg Brief: Charitable Donations – Events Signal Reconsideration

January 9, 2024 2:55 amJanuary 9, 2024 11:07 am

Have you made long-term plans for charity donations? I have, and so have many of my friends and extended family as well. But in light of revelations since the commencement of the Hamas/Israel war, be careful who you give to....

About Last Week…

December 26, 2023 10:54 am

California has a lot of homeless people. California spends a lot of money on homeless people. Well, you get what you pay for. The state will spend $7.2 billion dollars this fiscal year. – that’s about $40,000 per homeless person....