The Silence of the School Reformers
By Frederick M. Hess and Chester E. Finn Jr.: A tidal wave of wokeness threatens to destroy the movement to improve our nation’s stagnating schools.
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American Students Are Failing; You Can Thank Public Schools
By Teresa Mull: New standardized test scores have been released, and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos called the results of the federally mandated NAEP exam “devastating.”
Read MoreThe Artists Who Are Challenging The Education Status Quo
By Kerry McDonald: Children’s creativity and competence grows when they were allowed to drive their own learning while being supported by adults.
Read MoreWhatever Happened to Teaching History?
Cal Thomas: According to a report by the National Assessment of Education Progress, the teaching of U.S. history to American students lags behind all other subject matters.
Read MoreEducation Is Not About Your ‘Lived Reality’
By Anthony Esolen: Education today is not about reality at all, in the sense of what is objectively true. It is about political action. Its swindlers and their marks want power, not truth.
Read MoreOutschool.com Takes Education Out Of Schooling
By Kerry McDonald: The goal of Outschool.com is to make interest-based, learner-directed education a mainstream option for many more young people.
Read MoreAmerica’s Students Flounder while Education Reformers Virtue Signal
By Jay P. Greene and Frederick M. Hess: The school-reform movement’s best chance to get back on track is staring reformers in the face. Will they take it? And will it be enough?
Read MoreWitness to Public Schools Brainwashing
By Chris Talgo: I have experienced this miseducation first-hand. Long story short, while teaching U.S. History, World History, Economics, and American Government for five (long) years to high school students in the Chicago suburbs…
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School reform is a no-brainer…except when it comes to outreach
Six years ago today this article posted and still school reform is a no-brainer. It was my good fortune for a few years to work at a not-for-profit that focused on the issue of…
Read MoreIn ‘No Safe Spaces,’ an Odd Couple Teams Up to Fight Free-Speech Bans
By John Fund: Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager join figures across the political spectrum to examine the plague of censorship and groupthink emanating from college campuses.
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Chicago teachers contract costs a record $1.5 billion, and that doesn’t even include pension costs
Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner outline the new ridiculous Chicago teachers contract: Coverage of the Chicago teachers strike focused largely on the contest of wills between a new mayor vs. a combative teachers union….
Read MoreGorsuch makes understatement of the year: Americans face ‘challenges in civic understanding’
By Eric Utter: Justice Gorsuch was far too polite and sanguine when he said we face “some challenges” today as regards our understanding of our own system of government and knowledge of history. The…
Read MoreShocking literacy and math test numbers from Democrat-run California
By Tom Trinko: The annual California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) online test results from 2018 show that California is failing all students, but that the damage is greatest for minorities and…
Read MoreWhy Kids Are Socialists and How to Start Fixing It
By Tucker Carlson & Neil Patel: Forty-five million Americans now labor under student loans… [T]he only people benefitting from this system are on the far left: college presidents with multimillion-dollar salaries, highly paid university…
Read More4 Reasons Socialism Is More Popular Among Americans Now Than Ever Before
By Alexander Zubatov: Why socialism now? At a time when the American economy under Trump seems to be chugging along at a nice clip, why are so many hankering for an alternative?
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