EducationCommentary
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
EducationCommentary
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
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
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
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
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
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
EducationCommentary
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
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
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
Imagine for a moment the meetings that took place in schools across the country during the first and second week of March. Word was starting… Read More
EducationCommentary
Homeschooling—a few weeks ago the domain of about 3% of the school-aged population—made headlines this month as COVID-19 rapidly closed schools across 46 states, the… Read More
EducationCommentary
As of today, 91,000 public and private schools in 39 states with more than 41 million students collectively, have closed because of the coronavirus, according to Education… Read More
EducationNews
“I want to tell everyone today you are either for children or against children when it comes to educational freedom and choice in education.” So… Read More
EducationCommentary
Seven hundred kids. That’s how many students would have lost their scholarships—and a chance at a better life—if Fifth Third Bank hadn’t come to its… Read More
EducationCommentary
What kind of people would kick needy kids out of good schools? Big business, that’s who. In Florida, companies such as Wells Fargo and Fifth… Read More
EducationCommentary
Last week, Wells Fargo and Fifth Third Bank announced they no longer would donate to the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program, which enables more than… Read More
EducationCommentary
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
EducationCommentary
Parents look for many things in a school: strong academics, engaging extracurricular activities, and quality teachers who offer one-on-one help to their kids. But increasingly,… Read More
EducationNews
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos gave a pep talk Thursday to representatives and supporters of historically black colleges and universities gathered to discuss how to ensure… Read More
EducationNews
Welcoming participants in a daylong forum on the future of historically black colleges and universities, Heritage Foundation President Kay C. James spoke Thursday of her… Read More
EducationCommentary
Anti-Catholic prejudice, which spread like gangrene in the 19th and 20th centuries, often manifested itself in so-called Blaine Amendments, which enabled government discrimination against religious… Read More
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
