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James V. Shuls
JAMES V. SHULS is the head of the Education Liberty branch of the Institute for Governance and Civics at Florida State University. A nationally recognized scholar on education policy, his work focuses on school choice, education finance, and the philosophical foundations of education policy. Shuls has published in leading academic journals such as Educational Researcher, Journal of Education Finance, and Social Science Quarterly, and his commentary has appeared in outlets including National Review and Real Clear Education. He is the coeditor, with Neal McCluskey, of Fighting for the Freedom to Learn: Examining the Nation’s Centuries-Old School Choice Movement, a volume exploring the historical and philosophical roots of educational freedom. Prior to his role at Florida State, he served as department chair of educator preparation and Leadership at the University of Missouri–St. Louis and as dean of the College of Education at Southeastern University. A former public-school teacher, Shuls taught first and fifth grades in southwest Missouri.
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The first book to transform school choice from an abstract policy issue into a question of basic personal freedom—and indeed, for minority children at the bottom of the social ladder, into a question of survival.
In recent years, politicians led by President Obama and prominent senators and governors have teamed with extremists on campus to portray our nation’s campuses as awash in a violent crime wave—and to suggest (preposterously) that university leaders, professors, and students are indifferent to female sexual assault victims in their midst. Neither of these claims has any bearing in reality.
Peter Wood offers a point-by-point response to the New York Times‘s 1619 Project and argues that the proper starting point for the American story is 1620, with the signing of the Mayflower Compact aboard ship before the Pilgrims set foot upon a new land.
Drawing on a decade of experience battling for freedom of speech on campus, First Amendment lawyer Greg Lukianoff reveals how higher education fails to teach students to become critical thinkers.
The Golden Thread, Volume I examines how the foundations were laid for the West’s political and economic dominance in the modern era, illuminating the deep roots of the ideas, arts, and institutions that continue to shape our world.
A series of near-riots on campuses aimed at silencing guest speakers has exposed the fact that our universities are no longer devoted to the free exchange of ideas in pursuit of truth. But this hostility to free speech is only a symptom of a deeper problem, writes John Ellis.