Jonathan Butcher is the Acting Director of the Center for Education Policy and Will Skillman Senior Research Fellow in Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation, and the author of “Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth” (Post Hill Press/Bombardier Books, 2022).
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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
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This article is an excerpt from the “2020 Mandate for Leadership: A Clear Vision for the Next Administration.” It looks back at policy decisions made… Read More
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Six months into the pandemic, some traditions will still not be upset by a virus. As approximately half of K-12 schools are only offering online… Read More
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If this summer’s riots and civil unrest have demonstrated anything, it is that a substantial number of young Americans have been taught to believe their… Read More
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When The New York Times Magazine published the 1619 Project last year, supporters hailed this retelling of America’s founding as a “woke” counternarrative meant to… Read More
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The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in months of uncertainty for families with children in K-12 schools, but South Carolina officials on Monday made one thing… Read More
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Parents looking for a national consensus on whether schools should open in the fall won’t find one. But that’s OK. We don’t need one. As soon as… Read More
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Controversy makes news and newspapers sell news—or sometimes just controversy. With racial tensions already running high, a recent essay in The New York Times Magazine further stoked… Read More
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Coming soon to a parking lot near you—a hospital. Federal and state officials are rushing to create temporary medical centers to help patients during the… Read More
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“I have been thinking about this and reading obsessively for 25 years about all the inequalities in American life that can be traced back to… Read More
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Wisconsin lawmakers are taking the issue of free speech on campus seriously again—and, inexplicably, that has some people upset. Legislators recently advanced a proposal based… Read More
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Christy Cook hasn’t been singled out or harassed for the choices she makes for her son’s education. She’d like to keep it that way. Yet… Read More
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With Christmastime comes college football’s bowl season, with games all day, nearly every day. Starting last Friday with Buffalo against Charlotte in the Bahamas (1,235… Read More
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“This incident that occurred, this outrageous tragedy that we have had to deal with, we really had no signs, no warning, no tips,” announced Broward… Read More
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When Morgan Waldrop started high school, academics weren’t much of a priority. “It wasn’t even a goal of mine to be at the top of my class,” Waldrop says…. Read More
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California legislators seek to expand a law that limits a teacher’s ability to keep order in the classroom. Surveys find opposition to such loosened policies,… Read More
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Washington late last year reversed a policy that was micromanaging the way teachers and principals kept order in classrooms. Now, a federal commission wants to… Read More
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It became known as “The Bloody Morning Scout.” In 1755, Ephraim Williams Jr. led colonial forces and some 200 Mohawk allies into battle against French… Read More
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Lawmakers intended with the 2017 tax cuts not only to promote economic growth and job creation and to allow families to keep more of their… Read More
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State mottos should be built to last, and Alabama’s lawmakers just applied theirs—Audemus jura nostra defendere or “We dare defend our rights”—to one of the… Read More
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A yogurt company, Chobani, has picked up the tab for unpaid school lunches in a Rhode Island school district. That’s a relief to the school… Read More
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Three thousand and one hundred feet. That’s the distance between Hilltop Christian School in New Mexico and the Arizona border—but for students in the Navajo… Read More
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Three Arizona students may soon learn a valuable lesson: There’s a difference between exercising your free speech on campus and blocking someone else’s attempt to… Read More
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The National School Lunch Program has changed dramatically since it began in 1946. What started as a grant program to help poor students and those… Read More
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Teacher unions are now using strikes as a form of extortion. For the second time this year, a state’s teachers union and its members have… Read More
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Cindie Smith is not one to shy away from a challenge. Having already raised two biological children, she adopted four children with special needs and… Read More
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This year started with a reminder that we cannot take the safety of our children for granted, and Washington has ended the year by taking… Read More
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Leading up to Tuesday’s election, Arizona’s teachers union and its allies were more bombastic than strategic. But despite the campaign against families’ ability to choose… Read More
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Teacher unions and progressive special-interest groups cried foul earlier this year when the White House suggested that federal directives on school safety could be rescinded…. Read More
