Credit Where Credit is Due
What to know: Five U.S. universities have launched a new accreditation effort, the National Association for Academic Excellence, to challenge existing accrediting schemes.
The TPPF take: The NAAE is a new birth of excellence.
“For generations, the six regional accreditors exercised a de facto monopoly,” says TPPF’s Tom Lindsay. “Their standards, crafted to cover community colleges, massive state universities, and selective private institutions alike, inevitably flattened distinctions of mission. What began as peer review became, in practice, a mechanism for imposing generalized criteria that often had little to do with the distinctive purposes of independent colleges.”
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Children and Trans Ideology
What to know: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is demanding answers from the American Medical Association and other groups that continue to support “sex-rejecting procedures” for minors.
The TPPF take: Good for Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.!
“Hospitals that were performing sex change operations have closed down all over Europe as countries have pivoted to recommending counseling for kids who are gender confused,” says TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester. “Although 19 Democrat states are suing HHS over their attempts to stop Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals that perform sex change surgeries on children, a half dozen hospitals have already closed down those programs in response. Can’t wait to see what they say to Secretary Kennedy.”
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Ranked
What to know: Ahead of a key election in November, Alaska’s supposedly neutral public media has a new report “explaining” why the state uses ranked choice voting.
The TPPF take: Alaska now has a second chance to end the nightmare system of ranked choice voting.
“When Alaskans walk into the voting booth, they should feel confident in the election process from start to finish,” says TPPF’s Byron Fisher. “They shouldn’t have to untangle elimination rounds just to follow what happened to their vote. Ranked choice voting has been anything but simple for Alaskans. Ballot Measure 2 gives Alaskans another chance to decide whether those complications are worth keeping.”