Opinion, Public Education
Kansas school district dodges questions about taxes ahead of huge bond issue(The Sentinel) â School districts routinely ask voters to approve hundreds of millions in new bond issue debt with the promise that it wonât cost them anything. But there is… Read More
Opinion
It’s time for school choice in Texas(The Center Square) â School choice is surging in popularity: 74% of parents with school-aged children want control over their childrenâs education dollars. Here in Texas, a … Read More
Opinion, Public Education
Kansas Department of Education takes ‘another lap on the grade inflation tour’(The Sentinel) â The Kansas Department of Education conducted a fifty-city âKansans Can Success Tourâ in 2021 that felt like high school pep rallies, with the announcement of record-setting… Read More
Opinion, Public Education
New law requires New Jersey schools to teach critical thinking, but could it be politicized?A recently signed New Jersey law will ensure public schools teach critical thinking and other research skills, but some worry it could be politicized in the classroom. New… Read More
Culture, Opinion
Woke âimplicit biasâ training for educators is a priority for national teachersâ unionThe nationâs largest teachersâ union wants educators to know they are inevitably biased, even racially biased, despite their best intentions. âUnderstandably, most people arenât too eager to be… Read More
Opinion
Stanford University claims ‘freshman’ and ‘American’ are offensive termsDespite stiff competition, Stanford University recently became a major contender in the race to become the most politically correct academic institution ever. Stanford released the Elimination… Read More
Culture, Opinion
CDC announces new disease: conservatismThe Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is promoting its latest resource: an LGBT inclusivity self-assessment for educators. But what disease does it target?… Read More
Opinion
Teaching proper grammar and math is racist, say these teachersA California teacher refuses to teach proper grammar because she claims it upholds white supremacy. âPublic education is an institution that upholds lots of problematic systems in our… Read More
Culture, Opinion
Children as young as 6 attend erotic âChristmasâ drag queen show in Kansas City, guarded by police and AntifaImagine if exotic dancers left their strip clubs to stage a vulgar, sexually suggestive public performance at a local theater â for âall ages,â no less. Now imagine some adults… Read More
Culture, Opinion
Fathers are important, and other lessons I learned when my parents divorcedHaving a father in the home may be the single-most determining factor in the successful development of a child. I know the importance of having a father in the… Read More
Culture, Opinion
American âGirlâ sacrifices our daughters on the altar of gender ideologyFirst Disney, now American Girl dolls. Thanks, gender ideology, for ruining my childhood. American Girlâs new book âBody Imageâ is being… Read More
Opinion, Public Education
Fifth-grade public school teacher identifying as âtrans demi-boy non-binaryâ offers a shorthand lesson in all that ails educationA self-identified âtrans demi-boy non-binaryâ elementary teacher posted a video to social media on teaching children about imaginary âgender identitiesâ and pronouns. Skye Tooley is… Read More
Christian Schools, Opinion
5 ways Christian education just might be the salvation for a hopelessly divided and confused AmericaA character in the historical movie Braveheart says of 13th-century Scotland, âfrom top to bottom this country has no sense of itself.â The same could be… Read More
Opinion, Public Education
Opinion: Three of four upstart candidates for Nebraska State Board of Education notch big wins in midterm electionSpurred on by outrageous radicalism coming from members of the State Board of Education in Nebraska, four ordinary citizens made the decision to challenge the long-entrenched board establishment for… Read More
Opinion, Public Education
Lurching from fad to fad: The problematic history of education reform in AmericaEducation in the United States has lurched from fad to fad for the better part of a century, finding ever-ingenious ways to underperform preceding generations.  The causes… Read More
Christian Schools, Opinion
Catholic schools outperformed public schools across the nation. Here’s whyAccording to a data analysis performed by Kathleen Porter-Magee, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, âIf Catholic schools were a state, they would be the highest performing in the… Read More
Culture, Opinion, Public Education
Op-ed: School dress codes the latest target of a government agency seeking âequityâIn 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
Opinion, Public Education
Model bills promise to rein in the radical ideologues in charge of training teachersThree 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
Culture, Opinion
Op-Ed: The DOJ and FBI only arrest pro-life advocates(The Center Square) â “Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.” â George Washington The city of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, is in the buckle of… Read More
Opinion
Neo-Marxism floods Advanced Placement courses in the USSome of Americaâs 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