The Thanksgiving break didn’t seem to slow down our educational culture wars. Here are a few stories from this past week you might have missed:

Queen Betsy loves ‘em, but a new research review in EdWeek shows little evidence that voucher programs are good for students.

Seeing the future? CNN Money looks at Wisconsin after six years of restrictions on teachers’ unions.

At The Atlantic, Hal Boyd asks why it’s still okay to make fun of Mormons.

Why do so many evangelicals still support Roy Moore? David Brooks points to “siege mentality.”

• The ILYBYGTH take: Brooks misses the unique position of white evangelical conservatism. Siege mentality, yes, but exacerbated by white conservative evangelicals’ “unique sense of persecution, of their role as a beleaguered minority, unfairly ejected from their rightful role as America’s conscience and moral guardians, usurped and despised.”
• …and there’s plenty Moore: HT—DW
  • Blame the media, from Matt Latimer at Politico.
  • Molly Worthen explains the presuppositionalist connection, in USA Today.
  • Judge Moore gets women to vouch for him.
  • Moore’s long history of culture-war activism, from NYTimes.
  • ewwwwwww…

The “college gap” widens. Economist Charles Clotfelder discusses his study of higher education. The takeaway: rich private schools are vastly different from struggling public ones.

Is the new bajillion-dollar Museum of the Bible going to succeed at avoiding controversy? Nope.

• Liberals wonder why the museum whitewashes.
• Non-Christian critics say it ignores half the story.
• Young-earth creationist Ken Ham absolutely loves it.
• Other conservative evangelicals are equally agog.