Joe Herring

Joe Herring is an independent investigative journalist, an Army veteran and a proud husband, father and grandfather. His work has been featured by the late Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and others in the…

Culture, Opinion, Public Education
Op-ed: School dress codes the latest target of a government agency seeking “equity”

In a stunning example of bureaucratic uselessness, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) takes many pages, and presumably many dollars, to note that while most public schools have dress… Read More

October 26, 2022
Public Education
Nebraska students’ test scores continue their decline, but not as swiftly as some other states

Nebraska 4th and 8th grade students fared better on standardized math and reading tests last year than students in many other states, but celebrating the… Read More

October 26, 2022
Public Education
State-funded education website accused of promoting ‘erroneous left-wing, woke narrative’ in Nebraska

Nebraska’s education department was rebuked this week by state senators for using a taxpayer-funded website to promote Critical Race Theory.  The Launch Nebraska website was envisioned as… Read More

October 18, 2022
Opinion, Public Education
Model bills promise to rein in the radical ideologues in charge of training teachers

Three model legislative bills intended for state legislatures would hamper the use of teacher licensing power as a cudgel to enforce ideological conformity.   The example legislation, drafted… Read More

October 17, 2022
Opinion
Neo-Marxism floods Advanced Placement courses in the US

Some of America’s most popular college-credit history classes for high schoolers are littered with anti-Western ideas, identity politics and other neo-Marxist concepts, national scholars say.   The College… Read More

September 26, 2022