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Indiana Gov. Mike Pence yesterday signed off on new education standards for Indiana schools despite protests from Hoosiers who say the standards are a rebranded… Read More
Liberal speakers at college commencements outnumber conservative speakers by two to one, a study by Campus Reform shows. This spring’s list of commencement speakers includes… Read More
Indiana has a great opportunity to implement education standards that are “written by Hoosiers, for Hoosiers, and are uncommonly high,” as Governor Mike Pence (R)… Read More
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The constitutionality of New Hampshire’s education tax credit program is being considered this week by the state’s supreme court. This is not the first time… Read More
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Greg Schiller’s classroom seems to be a fruitful learning environment. One of his students recently stated, “He’s a really great teacher, and he really cares,… Read More
On Tuesday, we told the appalling story of Christian Stanfield, a 15-year-old kid with special needs who was, in effect, convicted of the crime of… Read More
EducationAnalysis
Common Core is on the ropes. More and more states are pulling back from the national standards as the 2014–15 school year implementation deadline looms… Read More
EducationAnalysis
Common Core proponents are doing their best to boost public perceptions of new national standards and tests as the fall implementation deadline looms. Last week,… Read More
Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned a federal district court ruling in a victory for school choice in… Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) hasn’t succeeded in stopping Louisiana’s statewide voucher program, so now it’s trying to bury it in paperwork. Last August,… Read More
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On his show last night, Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert expressed concern about adopting Common Core into public schools, mocking some of the sample Common… Read More
EducationAnalysis
The Home School Legal Defense Association released its long-awaited documentary on the Common Core national standards last week, Building the Machine. The film offers clarity… Read More
The budget presented by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R–Wis.) provides a topline function 500 (spending on education, training, employment, and social services) budget… Read More
A second-grader in San Jose, Calif., knew how to find the difference on his math homework, but struggled to come up with answers for a… Read More
Some religious schools teach that God created the world and question the assumptions of evolution. And therefore you should oppose vouchers. That’s the gist of… Read More
Indiana’s experiment with Common Core is over. Gov. Mike Pence signed legislation today requiring the state to come up with its own academic standards, making… Read More
The Arizona Supreme Court has declared Arizona’s education saving accounts (ESA) constitutional. This decision ends the fight over ESA constitutionality and has affirmed Arizona parents’… Read More
A provision in a Michigan teachers’ union contract calling for “special consideration” to be given to “minority” job applicants including “those of the non-Christian faith”… Read More
Free from a number of burdensome government regulations, public charter schools are a big hit among parents. And now, according to a new study, students… Read More
Military families stationed at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, have proposed their own K–8 charter school on base to meet the unique needs… Read More
“Scale is good for free market competition,” said Bill Gates last Thursday at the American Enterprise Institute. “Individual state regulatory capture is not good for… Read More
The hugely controversial Common Core initiative is at least partly responsible for the latest revamp of the SAT college entrance exam. This puts great pressure… Read More
The Indiana Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that will remove the state from the Common Core national standards. The bill, which was already passed… Read More
Big Business is now in favor of Big Education. Businesses, understandably, don’t like the government telling them how to run their companies. They don’t want… Read More
The Kansas Supreme Court has issued an important and eagerly awaited decision on how much money schools need to give kids a first-rate education. For… Read More
The national standards known as Common Core are moving education in America in the opposite direction from solutions, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R–Ind.) told The Foundry in… Read More
Does your child’s homework look different lately? Maybe something like this has happened to you or someone you know: Heather Crossin, an Indianapolis mom of… Read More
Education News
INDIANAPOLIS – What’s wrong with public education in America today? Across the country, just about everyone has an opinion. Very few, though, have the power… Read More
As more and more cracks begin to show in the Common Core initiative, Americans are pushing back, insisting that parents—not bureaucrats in Washington—should “be in… Read More
It sounds like serious business. They called it a “level 2 lookalike firearm.” They said that he pointed it “execution style” at a fellow student…. Read More
