The Dean’s List

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Dissenting Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson said that it is clear that the states “face a sufficiently concrete and imminent injury to satisfy Article III” of the U.S. Constitution. The states should not be required to wait to “bring their serious challenges to the Executive Order.”

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Brad Wilcox, Senior Fellow at IFS, said the report looked at “whether or not kids are being raised by their own mother and father.” They found that family structure was often a more important factor in children’s well-being. “It’s pretty clear that the character of the family you grew up in is more important than the color of your skin,”

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A Teachers Union-led organization used fraudulent signatures in order to get obstructions to the school voucher program on the November ballot in Arizona. The state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program allows funding allocation to follow the child to the K12 school of their choice rather than automatically assigned to the local...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – America’s deepest divide is not simply political but intellectual, separating those who think critically from those who surrender judgment to entitlement and government dependence. Education rewards compliance over reasoning, while classical learning offers an antidote by teaching students how to question, analyze, and think independently...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The ACLU asks the Supreme Court to review a Fifth Circuit ruling upholding Texas law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms, arguing the mandate violates First Amendment protections and risks religious coercion, while supporters contend the law is constitutionally permissible under current precedent...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The DSA’s platform calls for abolishing the U.S. Senate and Electoral College, replacing the presidency with congressional leadership akin to a parliamentary system, adopting a multi-party system, and abolishing ICE and the current prison system. But many within the Democrat party are pushing back...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A staggering 43% of the 912,000 students in New York City schools are in failing schools, according to a recently released shocking report. The level of failure in the nation’s largest public school system “has been normalized — and, worse, systematically obscured.” Socialist Mayor Mamdani’s city DOE slammed the report as a hit job, but did not...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – While New York spends more money per pupil than any other state, shocking new data reveals more than half of 3rd- to 5th-grade students failed their reading proficiency state exams. If money isn’t the solution, what is? More money doesn’t bring students up to this standard, but a change in the educational model will...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – 72% of parents said they want their governors to support the Federal Tax Credit because parents are searching for a better education for their children. EdChoice recently published the 14th edition of its Schooling in America report, with responses from 4,000 survey participants across all states and demographics...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – When Shirley asked her if she wanted prisoners in the streets, she claimed they were already there, and she was okay with it. The reason she gave for willingness to allow prisoners to roam the streets is that jail is not a solution to the darkness that is in their hearts. It’s doing them no good. She said prisons should be abolished because the...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The DSA party platform calls to abolish law enforcement and the military in direct opposition to the purpose of the Constitution. The DSA's lofty goals include: Abolishing the police and prison system, Replacing the Supreme Court, Abolishing the Senate, Instituting public ownership of corporations and essential industries...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The stated purpose was not to raise the best and brightest, nor the most athletic. It didn’t even tout the task of having the number one ranking in the world. Schools once had a distinct purpose in education and a partnership plan in achieving that purpose. Where has it gone, and can we get it back?

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The University of Michigan plans to hide incoming freshmen’s grades beginning in 2027, arguing the change supports mental health and academic exploration. Critics question whether masking grades weakens rigor, accountability, perseverance, and students’ ability to confront challenges that prepare them for future success and resilience...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – James Madison’s vision of representative government highlights why constitutional education matters today. As socialism gains appeal among young Americans, understanding the nation’s founding principles, individual sovereignty, traditional values, and economic freedom becomes essential to preserving the Constitutional Republic and resisting collectivist polit...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Classically educated students understand that at some point the free gravy train is coming to an end. Too many young people are not educated in that mindset. They seem to be more than ready to abdicate their responsibilities to someone else if it means receiving free stuff. But classically educated students understand that...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Minnesota classrooms face federal scrutiny over plans to introduce gender-themed dolls to children as young as four. Education Secretary Linda McMahon argues the materials may violate parental notification laws, intensifying debate over classroom content, taxpayer funding, childhood innocence, and parents’ authority in public education decisions...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Anthropic bought millions of books, chopping of their spines with hydraulic cutters. After they scanned the pages into their data center, the original works were turned into pulp. The only reason we know this is that Anthropic was sued, making court documents a matter of public record. Why all the secrecy? Why don’t they want...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Americans overwhelmingly call for major education reform as surveys reveal declining knowledge of U.S. history. Respondents favor stronger civics instruction, greater focus on founding documents, less ideological influence, honest teaching about national failures, and renewed emphasis on patriotism, constitutional rights, and shared identity in schools...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Over 20 million students are waiting for their governor to act and opt in to the Education Freedom Tax Credit. Without governor action by the beginning of 2027, donors from these states will still be able to make donations to SGOs for the benefit of students in other states that have opted in to the EFTC. This means that potentially 20 million students could....

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – If America does not have free and fair elections, we’ve become nothing other than a Banana Republic. On March 31, Trump issued an Executive Order aimed at tightening mail-in voting rules. Twenty-three blue states as well as the District of Columbia sued the administration over the order...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Cursive writing used to be taught in every American school. But it has since been replaced by digital literacy and AI instruction. The artistic beauty which was once taught to our children in schools has been replaced by digital literacy and standardized testing requirements. We explore what we’ve lost in American education and how to get it back...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The Science of Reading has become law in this blue state, and it’s about time! The Science of Reading is a body of research that supports teaching students to read phonetically. Finally, the whole-word method of reading, which was used with the Dick and Jane books decades ago, will be put to rest in the blue state of Michigan...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Both males argued that the law should not apply to them since they had no biological advantage over girls because they were taking female hormones and/or puberty blockers. “States and leading athletic organizations disagree with the plaintiffs and have concluded that biological males still retain a physical advantage after taking puberty blockers and hormones...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Dr. Jon Morey is the founder of a non-profit set up to provide the unique benefits of outdoor experiences for underserved populations. Morey explains how American exceptionalism is directly linked to its ability to remain uncivilized. His definition of this term is unique and accurate. The framework for health and happiness drawn from...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Two universities on opposite sides of the country are feeling the pressure of the DOJ for Title VI violations. “Schools cannot take federal dollars and then turn around and accept money from foreign sources to give financial aid that deliberately excludes American citizens—doing so is illegal, and we will stop it wherever we find it,” Harmeet K. Dhillon...