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Opinion
How I led the successful fight to bar trans ‘women’ from my all-female college

(The Daily Signal) – A year ago this month, I was able to rid my left-wing college of liberal gender ideology. In January, President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican Party have… Read More

November 18, 2024
Opinion
How President Trump can help a new generation learn to appreciate our veterans

(The Daily Signal) – Last Thursday, following President-elect Donald Trump’s extraordinary victory over Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden addressed the nation. His message was simple: “Setbacks are unavoidable, but giving up… Read More

November 11, 2024
Opinion
Does more regulation make for a better education? Public schools prove it doesn’t

Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part examination of calls for more regulation of homeschooling while so many public schools are failing students. As critics of homeschooling call… Read More

November 7, 2024
Opinion
Let freedom ring: School choice is better for all Americans!

There’s nothing more American than people making their own choices. Indeed, it’s how our country was founded. Research and history show that people do better when… Read More

November 1, 2024
Opinion
Pot calls kettle black: Texas teachers’ union claims charter schools are failing students

The Texas teachers’ union claims charter schools are failing students even though families are fleeing the state’s traditional public schools. The Texas affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)… Read More

October 28, 2024
Opinion
Why, in our free country, do we lack education freedom?

(The Daily Signal) – What issue could be more important to a nation’s future than education? A country is about people. How Americans act, work, think, choose—and live—reflects their values. Read More

October 17, 2024
Opinion
Op-ed: How one-room schoolhouses hold the keys to education reform and success

Do one-room schoolhouses hold the keys to solving the educational crisis in this country? What if its values of local control, a strong sense of community and built-in accountability have… Read More

October 17, 2024
Opinion
Op-ed: Why the frantic school-morning routine, not homeschooling, should be considered ‘extreme’

Sometimes the best answer is the simplest one, but media outlets love to scoff at simplicity as somehow “extreme.” Take homeschooling as an example. An informal survey of parents found… Read More

September 16, 2024
Opinion
They’re trying to sell you government-packaged ‘joy’. Don’t buy it; that’s not where it comes from

Buying into the Democratic National Convention theme of “hope and joy” has to be like trying to chew a meringue topping: it’s sweet and all, but once you bite down,… Read More

August 29, 2024
Opinion
YouRule!: The ‘Five Cs’ of civic construction, and how they can rebuild America

(Editor’s note: This is the 7th of 10 articles serializing Executive Editor Michael Ryan’s ebook YouRule: How Saving America Depends Entirely on You And What You Can Do About It.)… Read More

August 23, 2024
Opinion
YouRule!: How our ‘civic infrastructure’ is broken, and how we can we fix it

(Editor’s note: This is the 6th of 10 articles serializing Executive Editor Michael Ryan’s ebook YouRule: How Saving America Depends Entirely on You And What You Can Do About It.)… Read More

August 22, 2024
Opinion
Op-ed: Homeschool works better for the ‘common good’ than public school

Critics of homeschooling frequently complain it’s too individualistic and hurts public schools, which they see as a “common good.” “Let’s not forget the reason public schools were funded in the… Read More

August 22, 2024
Opinion
School choice doesn’t take from public schools – it gives power and control to parents

Is it the death of public-school funding, or the end of a government monopoly on where tax dollars are spent? To listen to critics of school choice, you would think… Read More

August 16, 2024
Opinion
‘We are the news now’: Musk/Trump talk shows power of citizen journalism, growing irrelevance of corrupt legacy media

Left-wing politicians and their legacy lapdog media were worried sick about Elon Musk airing Donald Trump’s views on X Spaces Monday night. Indeed, a European Union commissioner, of all people,… Read More

August 13, 2024
Opinion
Defense Department schools’ DEI agenda shows school choice need for military families

(The Daily Signal) – Military families shouldn’t have to worry that their kids are being indoctrinated while they defend our country. However, for families sending their children to schools funded by the … Read More

July 26, 2024
Opinion
Protecting equal rights means abandoning DEI

(The Daily Signal) – As someone who fought to ensure equal rights for all Americans beginning in the 1960s and ’70s, I’ve been distressed by the overwhelming cultural revolution brought… Read More

July 26, 2024
Opinion
Their own Biden cognitive coverup cynically painted Democrats into this corner

The party billing itself as the savior of democracy just threw it overboard in order to keep itself afloat in this election. Democrats aren’t kicking President Joe Biden to the… Read More

July 22, 2024
Opinion
‘By the grace of Almighty God’: Could this be Trump’s 1981 Reagan moment?

“Getting shot hurts,” wrote President Ronald Reagan in his White House diary entry for March 31, 1981, a day after an assassin’s bullet pierced his flesh,… Read More

July 19, 2024
Opinion
America’s teachers are unhappy. Here’s how we can turn that around

(The Daily Signal) – All is not well with America’s teachers. Surveys published this spring paint an alarming picture of the reality teachers face every day in our country’s classrooms. Read More

July 8, 2024
Opinion
FDA doesn’t think women taking abortion pills deserve safe heath care. I do.

(The Daily Signal) – As a woman who carries the scars of having a chemical abortion all alone without anyone by my side, I was obviously disappointed that the Food… Read More

July 8, 2024