EducationCommentary
Charter Schools and Their Enemies
Thomas Sowell has just published “Charter Schools and Their Enemies.” He presents actual test scores of students in traditional public schools and charter schools on… Read More
EducationCommentary
Getting Students Back on Track After School Shutdowns
One size does not fit all when it comes to education. The COVID-19 pandemic has made this education choice adage crystal clear. With schools shuttered… Read More
EducationCommentary
Trump Executive Order Combats Credentialism in Federal Hiring
Does it matter more if you can do a job well or if you have a piece of paper that says you can probably do… Read More
EducationCommentary
Universities Sowing Seeds of Own Obsolescence
When mobs tore down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant and defaced a monument to African American veterans of the Civil War, many people wondered… Read More
EducationCommentary
Supreme Court Hands Huge Victory to Families on School Choice
In a 5-4 decision Tuesday, the Supreme Court held that families have a right to seek the best educational opportunities for their children, by preventing… Read More
EducationCommentary
Let’s Not Overlook Education of Military Kids in Responding to COVID-19
America’s service members long have been concerned about the lack of access to effective schools for their children. In fact, more than a third of… Read More
EducationCommentary
Yes, Senator, Parents Can Educate Their Own Kids
High school-educated, working-class parents aren’t capable of overseeing their own child’s education, a state lawmaker said last week. New Hampshire state Sen. Jeanne Dietsch, D-Peterborough,… Read More
EducationCommentary
Don’t Give Civics the Common Core Treatment
You shouldn’t build a “national church” if you’re a “minority religion,” University of Arkansas professor Jay Greene has cautioned for years. By that, Greene… Read More
EducationCommentary
COVID-19 Should Incentivize States to Make Education Dollars Student-Centered
We are seeing some rays of optimism after the COVID-19 pandemic has forced school districts to close for months: Montana and Texas have become the… Read More
EducationNews
George Washington University Apologizes for Sharing Email About Police Recruitment Fair
George Washington University issued an apology Wednesday to students after sending an email about an upcoming police employment fair. The chair of the sociology department,… Read More
EducationCommentary
Leading Through the Crisis: How College Regents and Trustees Can Steady the Fiscal Ship
College administrators have two things on their minds right now: how to reopen their campuses safely, and what steps they need to take to survive… Read More
EducationCommentary
Canceled by COVID-19, National Spelling Bee Needs R-e-v-a-m-p-i-n-g
How do you spell “canceled”? Does it take one “l” or two? According to the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary, the official dictionary of the Scripps National… Read More
EducationCommentary
8th Graders Need to Know Their History
A driving force behind the establishment of public schools in America was to cultivate civic values in students. As Horace Mann, the father of the… Read More
EducationAnalysis
Hillsdale College President Explains Why Campus Will Be Open This Fall
Hillsdale College will be one of the only colleges, if not the only college, this year planning to hold an in-person commencement ceremony for its… Read More
EducationCommentary
School Districts Owe Taxpaying Parents a COVID-19 Refund
When elementary and secondary schools began closing in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, most parents assumed they would reopen in a matter of weeks…. Read More
EducationCommentary
Why We Need to Reemphasize America’s Founding Principles in Civics Education
We have a serious problem in this country with civics education and history. Not only are there widespread efforts to undermine the country’s founding principles,… Read More
EducationCommentary
10 Key Education Recommendations for Reopening the K-12 Classroom
Homeroom has taken on a literal meaning over the past two months. Parents, while always their children’s first and foremost educators, have had to fully… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Shutdown’s Silver Lining
The government has closed most schools. So, more parents are teaching kids at home. That upsets the government school monopoly. Education “experts” say parents lack… Read More
EducationCommentary
Why a Return to Obama’s Student Loan Forgiveness Rules Would Be a Mistake
The battle over the Department of Education’s borrower defense to repayment rule, which governs student loan repayments when a student claims he has been defrauded… Read More
EducationCommentary
Rotten Education Isn’t Preordained
Black politicians, civil rights leaders, and their white liberal advocates have little or no interest in doing anything effective to deal with what’s no less… Read More
EducationCommentary
With Kids Learning at Home, Families Need Schools to Be More Flexible
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the problems of the modern education system home to families—literally. Traditional brick-and-mortar school buildings were abruptly emptied, and parents found themselves… Read More
EducationCommentary
Parents Wade Into ‘Hybrid’ Homeschooling
A majority of parents now say they are “somewhat” or “much more” favorable to homeschooling, after experiencing it because of the recent coronavirus-spurred school closures. … Read More
EducationCommentary
The Nation’s Report Card Shows a Sorry State for Eighth-Graders
The Department of Education just released results of the quadrennial National Assessment of Educational Progress tests in U.S. history, civics, and geography given in 2018… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Left’s Long War on Parents Over Schooling Their Kids
An Ivy League professor says we need to end homeschooling, because parents who homeschool their children are “authoritarian.” In an article in Harvard Magazine‘s latest… Read More
EducationNews
DeVos Calls on Harvard to Follow Stanford’s Lead and Return COVID-19 Cash
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos called on elite schools Wednesday to follow Stanford University’s example and withdraw applications for CARES Act funding. The Education Department… Read More
EducationCommentary
Harvard Smears Homeschooling Parents and Their Children
In what has to be one of the most outrageous, misguided—frankly, garbage—pieces of elitist propaganda this year, Harvard Magazine and Harvard Law School have teamed… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Welcome Rise of Homeschooling
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced public schools will be closed for the rest of the academic year due to the new… Read More
EducationCommentary
How Christian Educators Adapt and Persevere During COVID-19 Crisis
As the coronavirus sweeps across the country, unprecedented statewide school closures have transformed education in America. The massive and abrupt shift to online learning during… Read More
EducationCommentary
How ‘Grievance Studies’ Corrupt Academic Scholarship
America’s colleges are rife with corruption. The financial squeeze resulting from the new coronavirus offers opportunities for a bit of remediation. Let’s first examine what… Read More
EducationCommentary
Teachers Unions Try to Thwart Education Access at a Most Inopportune Time
With millions of students at home as the result of coronavirus district closures, and families finding themselves thrown into “unexpected homeschooling,” Americans rightly expect that… Read More
