The Dean’s List

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – San Francisco Unified’s “Grading for Equity” policy would let students retake finals endlessly, ignore homework and attendance, and dramatically lower grade thresholds. While intended to close socioeconomic gaps, it risks undermining accountability, devaluing achievement, and inflating grades. Strong community, parental, teacher, and political opposition emerged, arguing it weakens...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Purdue will close its DEI offices and end related activities. MIT will also close its DEI offices but continue its signature programs. Clearly, one university is only closing DEI via lip service. Trump has stated repeatedly that the promotion of DEI ideology not only violates anti-discrimination laws but also threatens...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Trump threatened to withhold over $13 billion dollars from CA if they allow a male athletes to continue to compete agains females. After Trump’s post on Truth Social, the California Interscholastic Federation announced changes to its policy by introducing a “new pilot model” that will allow...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Pew Research Center survey asks parents and teachers how they feel about the direction of public K12 schools in America. The results are not good! Public K-12 education in America has been on the wrong path for decades, and these types of surveys will likely continue to show an increase in parental dissatisfaction...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A lawsuit brought by 20 AGs from Democrat states has found a judge to block the Department of Education’s planned layoffs of half the DOE staff. In the decision to halt the terminations, Judge Myong stated that DOE employees and teachers' unions offered enough supporting documentation to cause the...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Texas lawmakers are poised to approve a bill requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom, aiming to honor the nation’s historic moral foundations. Supporters argue the document represents educational and judicial heritage, while critics warn it violates constitutional separation of church and state and face legal challenges in federal court.

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Join me for a fascinating conversation with Sara Masarik, founder of Plumfield Library. Discover how she turned her basement collection into a lending library after sensing a calling, and get her top recommendations for authors, websites, and publishers dedicated to devoted young readers. A must-listen for anyone nurturing a love of reading in young children.

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Not only are we remembering the men and women who have performed this ultimate act, we are also remembering the idea for which they fought. This idea was first presented to us by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, which states that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The DOE has ended the governmental abuse and overreach directed at Christian universities such as Grand Canyon University. The American Principles Project, a conservative think tank, issued a blistering report last November describing disproportionate enforcement actions against Christian colleges and universities...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Exploring humility’s vital role in American classrooms, this piece examines the humble leadership of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin alongside research on intellectual humility. Students embracing humility develop resilient mindsets, welcome challenges, and uphold ethical integrity under pressure, while those lacking it risk giving up or resorting to dishonest shortcuts.