How Micro-School Networks Expand Learning Options
By Kerry McDonald: A blend between homeschooling and private schooling, micro-schools retain the curriculum freedom and schedule flexibility characteristic of homeschooling.
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Ed. Secretary: ‘Country is in a student achievement crisis’
From the Associated Press: The annual Nation’s Report Card has been released and alarm bells are going off over how America’s students are doing in basic math and reading skills. Nationwide, a little more than…
Read MoreElizabeth Warren Pledges To Crack Down On School Choice, Despite Sending Her Own Son To Elite Private School
By Peter Hasson: The 2020 presidential candidate’s public education plan would ban for-profit charter schools — a proposal first backed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — and eliminate government incentives for opening new non-profit…
Read MoreThe Dangerous Lessons the Left Is Teaching Our Kids
By Dennis Prager: Here are some of the messages the left has been giving America’s young people: —Your past is terrible, and your future is terrible.
Read MoreK–12: Phonics Is Winning
By Bruce Deitrick Price: Phonics is winning, finally, at long last, after 85 stupid years, after 50 million functional illiterates, after one of the most stubborn subversive schemes against common sense ever.
Read More‘The Dumbest Generation’ Has Gotten Even Dumber 10 Years Later
By Casey Chalk: A decade after ‘The Dumbest Generation’ was published, there is still much reason for hand-wringing about the future of our children and nation. We must take responsibility if we want to…
Read MoreApple CEO Appointed Chair of Board at Top Chinese University With Close Ties to Beijing
By Eva Fu: Apple’s CEO Tim Cook recently became the chairman of an advisory board at the business school under China’s prestigious Tsinghua University, as the tech giant faced criticism for caving in to…
Read MoreChicago teachers strike: Why is no one talking about pensions?
By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner: Teacher pensions have not been a point of discussion during the recent Chicago Teachers Union strike, though they should be. After all, it’s pensions that are primarily threatening…
Read MoreStudent Loan Fallacies—and Fixes
A video from City Journal: Beth Akers joins John Stossel to discuss the purported crisis over student loans and new approaches to the financing of higher education.
Read MoreUniversities Breed Anger, Ignorance, and Ingratitude
By Victor Davis Hanson: In turning out woke and broke graduates, they have a lot to answer for.
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Chicago Teachers’ Strike Shows Why We Don’t Need Public Schools
Kerry McDonald says what few have the courage to say — we don’t need public schools: Without government involvement and compulsion, civil society steps up and quickly mobilizes to care for children and families….
Read More‘Ordinary Chicagoans can’t afford either Lightfoot’s proposal or the CTU’s demands.’
From Wirepoints: Ted Dabrowski appeared on the Illinois Channel TV to talk about the Chicago teachers strike. He told Illinoisans what they need to know: that all Chicagoans will lose no matter how the…
Read MorePublic Schools: Tearing Human Minds to Pieces?
By Jeff Minick: To graduate 18-year-olds who read at a sixth-grade level, or who can’t do the math required to figure out a budget, constitutes a crime against the younger generation.
Read MoreChristopher Columbus: A Progressive Tool for Discrediting America
By Bruce Thornton: The Left’s vicious assault on American history ensues.
Read MoreThe Strongest Support for School Vouchers Comes from Lower-Income Families
By Kerry McDonald: Parents are increasingly dissatisfied with a one-size-fits-all mass schooling model and want access to expanded educational options for their kids.
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