This is What Will Replace K-12 Schools and Colleges
By Peter Gray: The days of K-12 and four years of college are numbered.
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A near-perfect way to hike property taxes in Illinois
By Ted Dabrowski: Local officials and union leaders sell the idea that communities around them are more generous than their own.
Read MoreUnaccountable Public Schools
Don’t kid yourself — this happens in Illinois too — here is Larry Sand: California keeps changing the standards of measurement to obscure declining performance.
Read MoreGovernment Is Not the Solution to Educational Inequality
By Corey DeAngelis: Inequality in education is a serious problem, and government has only made it worse.
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Factory-Like Schools Are the Child Labor Crisis of Today
I’ve called today’s government-run schools Lord of the Flies Child Warehouses — Kerry McDonald calls them Factory-like. Here she is writing at the Foundation for Economic Education: Compulsory schooling was meant to save children…
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Every Twelve Years: A Review of the Book Saving K-12 (Part Two)
Last time I presented some of the background about why I enjoyed Bruce Deitrick Price’s new book Saving K-12: A Citizens Guide to Improving Public Education. In this post, I will present a few…
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Every Twelve Years: A Review of the Book Saving K-12 (Part One)
Every twelve years another set of children progress through America’s government-run school system. Those that graduated this past spring started twelve years before that as first-graders in 2005. In 2005 I had the honor…
Read MoreAmerican Apprenticeships on the Rise
By Emily Top: Apprenticeship programs can take different forms, and can offer an alternative to college.
Read MoreMassResistance speakers expose harsh reality of the ‘gay’ agenda at local Texas pro-family conference
From MassResistance: What you’re not being told about the LGBT movement’s lies. How LGBT “training” is getting into your elementary schools & libraries.
Read MoreThe Cultivated Ignorance of Millennials
By Arnold Ahlert: “It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.” —Thomas Sowell
Read MoreEducation Is the State’s Greatest Tool for Propaganda
By Brittany Hunter: “It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought.”
Read MoreHow to Prevent High School Dropouts? Give Families the Schools They Want
By Teresa Mull: A 2005 report from the Manhattan Institute found “increasing the choice parents have in their child’s school district contributes to higher public high school graduation rates.”
Read MoreAverage teacher, administrator pay in Illinois jumps as student performance stays flat
By Benjamin Yount: Most students in Illinois still can’t read or write at grade level, but both teachers and public school administrators are making more money.
Read MorePoll: Nearly Half Of Millennials Prefer Socialism To Capitalism
By Bre Payton: Nearly half of American millennials (44 percent) would rather live in a socialist society than a capitalist one.
Read MoreLow-Cost Private Schools Are Changing the Developing World
By James Tooley: In war-torn countries like Liberia and South Sudan, a multitude of private schools.
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