Studies that document the overwhelmingly Democratic registration of professors have gotten a lot of publicity in the last few years. These studies give evidence of a bias that runs much deeper, but is difficult to document objectively. Now comes a controversy that, in its own way, is just as revealing as those objective studies, if not more so. In an Op-Ed in Sunday’s Washington Post, Frederick Hess explains how America’s schools of education are imposing ideological tests.

This story is very important, because if you can control the ideology of the schools that certify teachers, you control the education of America’s children. But I think the story is far more important even than that. The Ed School scandal makes the political bias of America’s colleges and universities obvious and open. It puts a public face on what goes on more covertly in much of the academy.

I wonder how those who still deny that political bias and indoctrination pervades the academy will explain this. Given the fact that schools of education are deputized by state licensing systems, it looks as though state legislatures may need to get involved here. No doubt that will raise howls about the “injection of politics into academia.” Yeah, right. Look what’s going on there now. Amazing how the folks who’ve brazenly politicized our entire system of education are wont to scream “no politics” when someone tries to stop them.