EducationCommentary
When a school system draws racial boundary lines and denies entry to qualified students on the basis of race, it doesn’t matter if it’s done… Read More
EducationCommentary
“The biggest problem plaguing U.S. public schools [is] a lack of resources.” So claims Robert Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of… Read More
EducationCommentary
Louisville, Kentucky, public school teacher Paul Barnwell was distressed by his 11th-grade students’ response to this hypothetical moral quandary: “If your significant other commits a… Read More
EducationCommentary
Officials in the state of Maryland have banned a school from their voucher program due to its faith-based views on gay marriage and transgenderism. The… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Editor’s note: Count on The Daily Signal’s audience to have a lot to say on the state of public education and other topics, as this… Read More
EducationCommentary
Across the country, math and reading scores have continued a yearslong stagnation, with students largely showing no progress in academic achievement. That’s one major takeaway… Read More
EducationNews
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos criticized the state of American students’ education Wednesday, saying the United States is in a “student achievement crisis.” DeVos referred to… Read More
Education Analysis
This week on “Problematic Women” we talk with Lindsey Burke, The Heritage Foundation’s education fellow, about a new collection of essays, “The Not-So-Great Society.” Burke,… Read More
EducationNews
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s vision for a Great Society unleashed an army of bureaucrats on American schools but produced little or no improvements to public… Read More
EducationCommentary
When Virginia Walden Ford crossed the threshold of her new high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, as one of the second wave of black students… Read More
EducationCommentary
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / and sorry I could not travel both. / And be one traveler, long I stood / And… Read More
EducationCommentary
With most services, you get to shop around, but rarely can you do that with government-run schools. Philadelphia mom Elaine Wells was upset to learn… Read More
EducationCommentary
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
EducationCommentary
What social institutions have the most immediate and strongest impact on a child’s development and well-being? According to researchers for the Pew Charitable Trust’s Economic… Read More
EducationNews
When the state of Maryland found out that Bethel Christian Academy affirms the biblical view of marriage in its student handbook, officials last fall cut… Read More
EducationNews
Active-duty service members and their spouses show strong support for “choice-driven education policies and programs” for their children, according to a survey on military families… Read More
Education Commentary
Before hitting the road for their summer vacations, the justices of the Supreme Court announced last week that they would hear a major school choice… Read More
EducationCommentary
Families in the nation’s capital deserve a choice about educating their children. This year, Congress has the chance to make changes to the D.C. Opportunity… Read More
EducationCommentary
While protecting American freedom, the active-duty men and women of our armed forces want education freedom as well. That’s the general finding of a new… Read More
EducationNews
The NAACP’s support for a moratorium on new charter schools across America has put the nation’s oldest civil rights group at odds with three of… Read More
EducationCommentary
For 15 years, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program has been a District of Columbia institution. Yet the program, which provides scholarships to children from low-income… Read More
EducationCommentary
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
EducationNews
A North Carolina woman with three grandchildren in the state’s school voucher program says she isn’t too proud to beg the governor not to reduce… Read More
EducationCommentary
Gerald Watson, a high school freshman in Washington, D.C., died in December after he was chased down and shot 17 times near an after-school program… Read More
EducationCommentary
Before Congress adjourned for Memorial Day weekend, Sen. Ted Cruz objected to a new retirement saving bill passed by the House because it left out… Read More
EducationNews
A billboard campaign in North Carolina is taking aim at Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper after his announcement proposing freezing and eventually ending a scholarship program… Read More
EducationCommentary
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
EducationCommentary
Butler College Prep, a top-rated charter school on the South Side of Chicago, provides an atmosphere that reflects and engages the local community. The founder… Read More
EducationNews
Students who participated in a school choice program for low-income families in the nation’s capital were less likely to miss classes than peers who applied… Read More
EducationCommentary
“You couldn’t learn. There was so much bullying. Kids are bullying the other kids and they’re bullying you,” said Willie Augustus, who was relentlessly bullied… Read More
