Education Policy & School Reform News

School is back in session—or will be soon—for students across America. As they head back to the classroom, many of our children will encounter a different environment this year. With debates about mask mandates and critical race theory garnering headlines, another underreported story is reshaping American education. Corey DeAngelis, national research director for the American…

As a former secondary school English teacher, I believe definitions are important. As a current special education teacher, I believe communication with parents is essential.  And as a former school board member, I believe transparency to taxpayers, who fund public education, is obligatory.  Unfortunately, authorities in public school districts in charge of pre-K through grade 12…

It’s back-to-school time. Like every other year, children are excited about new teachers, new experiences, new clothes, and maybe even some new friends. But for many families, going back to school is not business as usual this year. In many cases, temporary changes to education brought on by COVID-19 have become permanent. Perhaps the biggest change is…

Holding to the biblical definition of male and female has cost the Rev. Bernard Randall his job.  Randall served as chaplain of Trent College, a day and boarding school in Derbyshire, England, for four years. He delivered a sermon to students on the topic of gender identity in 2019.  “So, all in all, if you…

The National Education Association adopted a strategy to impose critical race theory in 14,000 school districts in all 50 states. The association’s decision to promote critical race theory is unsurprising considering it claims America suffers from systemic racism. Public schools, including schools in Loudoun County, Virginia, have added racial diversity books to their classroom libraries….

The Biden administration is picking up where the Obama administration left off in trying to dictate to local school districts how they should best discipline students.  Its justification for acting as national school principal is based on the claim that suspending students harms them by excluding them from the learning environment and by stigmatizing them…

The physical and psychological traumas associated with the chemical abortion regimen evince the unique horrors of the procedure—even beyond what we are used to in the abortion context.  Tammi, one victim of the abortion industry’s embrace of this practice, reflected on her chemical abortion as “savage” and “horrific.” She recalled extreme physical pain and fear throughout the…

Student activism “has to be loud,” Kristin Dobson, national field director for the Leadership Institute, says. Dobson trains young people across America how to have a voice on their college campus. Through practical tools, she and her team show young people how to promote freedom and conservative principles effectively at their universities. Dobson joins the “Problematic…

Our men and women in uniform are prepared to lay their lives on the line every day to uphold the Constitution and protect the nation from enemies who would do us harm, but what many service members may not realize is that a personal threat to their families exists much closer to home. As parental…

I love my university. I cherish the memories I have made and the friends I have met, but all good things have a blemish. I was told college is the time for maturing and growing to become who I am meant to be. Growing up, I was told college is an accepting place where I…

A school board in Oregon will decide whether to fire two educators at a middle school who were placed on leave after producing a video proposing that schools recognize a student’s biological sex, not his or her gender identity. Science teacher Katie Medart and assistant principal Rachel Damiano of North Middle School in Grants Pass,…

The issue of critical race theory is raising a more fundamental question about our nation: education. Education is about more than teaching children to read and write. It is about transmitting values, transmitting a worldview, that will define how our youth think and how they will live. Per the Department of Education, in 2020, 56.4…

In a heartbreaking move for conservative court watchers, on Monday the Supreme Court denied a petition to review the case of Gavin Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board—an appeal from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over a biological girl’s access to the boy’s bathroom in one Virginia school district. In so doing, it…