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In an announcement this week, CarterBaldwin Executive Search announced that it will oversee the search for a permanent president to replace the interim president, Jerry Prevo.

As reported by Faithwire, Biden’s remarks were met with a polarized reception on social media, including some who believed that he stressed that children do not belong to their parents when they are in the classrooms.

On Friday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed a bill into law requiring state school districts to be transparent with parents about what is in the school's curriculum.

When a culture loses its grip on those foundations, the “experts” (or, as C.S. Lewis called them “conditioners”) step in. They loudly suggest that a college degree in education and a place on the government’s payroll gives someone the vocational and moral authority over kids. Don’t buy it. That authority belongs to God, Who assigns it to parents, along with the responsibility to educate children.

Stripping morals from education—or, more accurately, attempting to strip morals from education—is a dangerous idea with dangerous consequences. Chuck Colson repeatedly highlighted this, especially in light of the financial scandals of the late 1980s and early 2000s. He spoke often of “a crisis of character” and the “inescapable consequence of neglecting moral training.”

Krishna Bannerjee wanted to reconcile Christianity and modern education with Indian culture. In keeping with this goal, he became heavily involved in a wide range of social organizations in Bengal and worked for social reform.

The Abolition of Man is a book critically important for our cultural moment. In the book’s opening essay, C.S. Lewis thoroughly critiques modern education which, he says, fills students’ heads with knowledge and their bellies with passion, but does nothing to cultivate the chest.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said 95 percent of the city’s 148,000 public school employees had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday morning. It was unclear as of Monday just how many employees had declined the vaccine and been placed on leave.

John Kluge, a music teacher, was forced out at Brownsburg (Ind.) High School after he declined to follow a new district-wide policy mandating that teachers use the preferred gender names and pronouns of students.