Episodes

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The NEA and AFT wield an exorbitant amount of power within and over government policy, and that power should be put in check. On August 21, 2026, the U.S. Department of Education initiated proceedings to withdraw federal recognition from that body which accredits most American law schools...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The practice of equitable grading will only further reinforce an entitlement mentality with zero responsibility or self-government being taught. Equitable grading includes ineffective practices such as unlimited retakes, no late penalties, no zeros, no homework, and no required participation. These grading policies make no sense to...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Nebraska law requires all children to be enrolled in a “public, private, denominational or parochial school,” or to homeschool them. If parents fail to comply, the punishment is a Class III misdemeanor, including up to three months in jail and a $500 fine. Families are urging a Nebraska court to consider if the government-school monopoly is an unconstitutional...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The NEA provides resources for teaching 9/11 calling the US “cruel and inhumane” and blaming the 9/11 attacks on America’s support for the Jewish state. Not only do the lessons not provide the radical Jihadist motivations of the attacks, but they also appear to equivocate on whether al-Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden was behind the attacks...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The Democrats continue to openly embrace Socialism while maintaining their ability to remain tone deaf. While the Democratic Party at the national level is full on embracing Socialism, state Democratic leaders are embracing Socialist policies, beginning with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who is maintaining sole control of...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Booksellers have recently discovered that AI has breached the gates. The revelation that millions of print books are being scanned to train artificial intelligence models and then destroyed should raise concern. “What I’ve been hearing is alarming. People are right to raise a red flag about it,” Susan Benne, executive director of the Antiquarian...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Detroit public schools offer gift cards worth up to $1,000 to reward student attendance as chronic absenteeism remains a serious problem. Critics argue that simply paying students to appear in class does little to improve engagement, academic performance, or meaningful learning outcomes for struggling students...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – What’s worse, renaming a Great Lake or removing the word “mother,” and replacing it with “postpartum individual”? Democrats whined and complained profusely after Trump made the announcement that he was changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Bill Maher exposed them for who they are by sarcastically saying they...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The fact that his letter had to be sent speaks to the horrible state of affairs in which our pubic education system finds itself. The impetus behind the letter was due to reports surfacing about schools withholding critical information from parents under the guise of “confidential medical information.” Other reports noted that teachers were...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – AFT president Randi Weingarten calls ICE actions illegal and immoral while they claim she is a criminal illegal alien supporter. Weingarten is urging her members to boycott Target, deeming the company unethical, because it refuses to publicly denounce ICE. As usual, Weingarten finds herself on the wrong side of the argument...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Have we made it a normal practice for grown adults to carry around stuffed animals for comfort? If students are not given the opportunity to be courageous in the face of struggles, progress will be nonexistent in their lives. They will expect everything to be handed to them, and be sorely disappointed when they come to realize we live in...

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...