Jonathan Butcher is a senior policy analyst in The Heritage Foundation's Center for Education Policy and a senior fellow for the Goldwater Institute and the Beacon Center of Tennessee.
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Officials at an Idaho middle school tried pressuring teachers to judge students by the color of their skin. But state lawmakers rejected this application of… Read More
EducationCommentary
How would you feel if your child came home from school and said her teacher had told her that everything that happens in the world… Read More
EducationCommentary
President Joe Biden’s administration wants you to know your children are biased, and Washington has a plan to fix them. This week, the U.S. Department… Read More
EducationCommentary
Thousands of children across West Virginia have new hope for the future. State legislators have approved a proposal that would allow students to use education… Read More
EducationCommentary
What happens when we confuse social power with social justice? A trampling of any reasonable definition of fairness, as the fallout from an incident at… Read More
EducationCommentary
President Joe Biden’s administration pledged that at least half of K-12 schools in the U.S. will offer in-person learning at least one day per week… Read More
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Educators and policymakers agree that the teaching of civics in K-12 schools is not preparing children to participate in civic life. There’s broad agreement among… Read More
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Noxious Marxist theories that have festered in academia for decades finally burst out of ivy-covered walls in 2020, invading all aspects of American life. It… Read More
EducationCommentary
At what would normally be the end of the first academic quarter for most K-12 schools, millions of students still have not set foot in… Read More
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History is a harsh mistress when trifled with. Newspaper writers and editors make a profession of turning the present into history, and they acknowledge the… Read More
