International Students in US Higher Education
Total number of international students enrolled in higher education or doing optional practical training (OPT) on an F-1 student visa in the US: 1,126,690 Total number of international…
Protect Parents’ Rights with Defending Education
As a parent or educator, you deserve to know when a child is struggling—and who they’re turning to for help. But groups like the Trevor Project have inserted themselves into…
Help Defending Education Continue to Build a Movement
As students head back to school, families across the country are doing more than buying backpacks and supplies. They’re stepping into this new school year with confidence, clarity, and a…
Title IX State Tracker: Compliant or Not?
Below is a list of all 50 states, broken down by whether or not they are in compliance with Title IX regarding single-sex spaces and single-sex interscholastic athletics. The current…
Help Defending Education Keep Winning Against Ideological Activism on Your Child’s Campus
College and university campuses should be a place of learning — not platforms for political activism. To help Defending Education continue leading the fight to restore a healthy, non-political education…
Palo Alto Unified School District’s ethnic studies course features a focus on examining students’ power and privilege, including ‘white privilege;’ uses a document which states that discussions and content will bring ‘discomfort’ and ‘anger’
Palo Alto Unified School District’s ethnic studies course features topics such as white privilege, oppression, power, and white supremacy. Course materials include an exercise on examining privilege and…
National Education Association approves business items accusing President Trump of “fascism” and “authoritarianism,” opposing Supreme Court ruling, and not using ADL materials
The National Education Association (NEA) held the union’s annual “Representative Assembly” to vote on the year’s upcoming business items on July 3-6, 2025. The resolutions that NEA members voted on…
National Review: Did SCOTUS Just Transform America’s Schools?
Last month, on the final dramatic day of its term, the Supreme Court in the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor affirmed the right of parents in Montgomery County,…
Christin Heaps v. Delaware Valley Regional High School Board of Ed., et al.
Summary All across the country, policies allowing school personnel to socially transition young children in secret—giving children new names, pronouns, restroom usage, and field trip bunk selection—are exploding. Parents…