National Association of Scholars

20 state attorneys general are suing over the federal contractor DEI crackdown, while the White House doubles down on merit. DEI discrimination has no place in a system built on individual dignity and excellence.

20 attorneys general sue Trump administration over federal contractor DEI order The plaintiffs argue the president’s March executive order impedes each state’s efforts and is unclear in what it prohibits. 

China’s grueling university entrance exam, the gaokao, is facing major shifts driven by artificial intelligence and changing demographics.

China’s notorious university-entrance exam is changing Demography and AI are set to transform the gaokao

The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has been keeping busy lately—and with good effect. We’re trying to reform higher education as our central mission, but that necessarily requires a fair bit of public policy work.

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Where NAS Is Winning the Fight for Education Reform — Minding The Campus From Iowa to Washington, NAS is advancing reforms in higher education, science policy, and civic education.

“Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.”

David Randall on education's negative framing toward conservatives as moral outcasts:

The Real Reason Conservatives Are Excluded From Universities — Minding The Campus Universities do not merely disagree with conservatives. They increasingly regard conservative thought as morally beyond the pale.

A new Iowa Supreme Court ruling highlights the murky legal waters for race-based scholarships as the Trump administration targets these programs. Colleges nationwide are now scrambling to replace race-based criteria with neutral alternatives to avoid federal scrutiny.

Will Race-Based Scholarships Survive? Colleges and funders are replacing race-based scholarships with race-neutral alternatives as the Trump administration targets these programs, raising questions about their future.

David Randall argues that we must solve the higher-ed supply problem by creating a Sasse Society - a pipeline for leaders who will actually dismantle the DEI status quo.

DEI by Default Education reformers must do far more than sit back and watch DEI apparatchiks lead our cherished public universities.

Iowa’s Higher Education Committee is the national gold standard for reform, proving how targeted legislative action can reclaim public universities.

Iowa’s Higher Education Committee is the Gold Standard Iowa’s House Higher Education Committee, set in motion by House Speaker Pat Grassley and chaired by Rep. Taylor Collins, has done a remarkable amount of good work in the last

Bella d’Abrera’s Mindless: How the Education System is Indoctrinating Children and Destroying Our Civilisation is an excellent summary of the radical left assault on modern education.

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Radical Leftist Ideology Is Reshaping Education Worldwide — Minding The Campus Bella d'Abrera examines how leftist activism has transformed schools across Australia, Britain, and the United States.

Claire Harrington: The Federal Scholarship Tax Credit would give more families an opportunity to escape failing public schools.

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Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Could Improve College Readiness — Minding The Campus The Federal Scholarship Tax Credit could expand access to homeschooling, private schools, and charter schools.

A whistleblower cache exposes how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation effectively merged with the NIH, creating a powerful globalist cartel that quietly weaponized hundreds of millions in private funding to dictate federal biomedical research and public health priorities from the inside out.

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Viral Influencer: How Bill Gates’ Billions Shape US Medical Research Bill Gates has long been one of the most admired people in the world, especially since he stepped down from his role running Microsoft to devote himself and much of his fortune to philanthropy. That r