Commentary Single mom Shinara Morrison discovered homeschooling by accident. When public schools closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, she found herself taking the lead on her child’s education to fill the gap. Morrison never withdrew her son, who was 7, from the public school system. But she supplemented his online instruction with custom coursework that blended…
Let Parents Opt Out of Low-performing Schools
April 25, 2023
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California’s Education Priorities Are Focused on Equity Quotas
Commentary A March 26 front page article in the Orange County Register bemoaned the fact that too few black and Latino males become teachers in the California public schools in proportion to Caucasian men and women. It didn’t mention Asian male teachers, but painted minority teachers as “people of color” as if Caucasians don’t come…
Parents’ Bill of Rights Is How Congress Can Help State School Reformers
March 24, 2023
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Commentary The stunning success of conservative education reform across the country in the past few years is the result a moral fact: Parents are children’s primary educators. Until very recently, this was not disputed, let alone controversial. But lately, it has become clear that progressive elites who run teachers unions and school boards, the Democratic…
The Vanishing: US Public Schools’ Fast-Dissolving Education Standards
Commentary The state of New York has decided to lower what it calls “proficiency” standards in math and English-language arts for students in grades 3 through 8. The reason: a drastic drop in student scores on statewide tests from 2019 to 2022. In Schenectady alone, not one eighth-grader scored “proficient” on the statewide math test…
In Michigan, a Modicum of Justice for a COVID-Exploiting Teachers’ Union
March 21, 2023
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Commentary America’s teachers’ unions exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to maximum effect, leveraging school lockdowns for which they lobbied to pursue political demands stretching far beyond their salaries and benefits—and helping drive a $190 billion windfall in taxpayer dollars to K-12 schools. The public bore that cost, in children’s learning loss and mental health struggles; in the burdens the closures…
The Ideas That Formed the Constitution, Part 22: Public Education
March 10, 2023
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Commentary This is the last in the series on “The Ideas That Formed the Constitution.” It applies the series’ lessons to how we educate our young. The U.S. Constitution is America’s highest secular law—“the supreme Law of the Land” (Article VI). It structures the central government, regulates American federalism, and protects individual rights. Its study…
Give Parents Back Their Rights
March 10, 2023
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Commentary On March 1, House Republicans introduced the Parents Bill of Rights Act to ensure the rights of parents are honored and protected in public schools. The federal legislation, authored by Rep. Julia Letlow (R-La.), comes as some states undertake similar efforts to protect parental rights and require curriculum transparency by public schools. Amending the…
LIVE at 11AM ET: Biden’s New Culture War; ‘Equity’ Orders Are Unconstitutional and Un-American
February 24, 2023
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The White House’s new executive orders pit Americans against each other. Does an arrogant and out-of-touch ruling party not know that division and chaos are sure to follow? Or is that the plan? In this hard-hitting two-part episode of Over the Target Live, Lee Smith speaks with Gene Hamilton and Terry Schilling about the political…
LIVE NOW: Biden’s New Culture War; ‘Equity’ Orders Are Unconstitutional and Un-American
February 24, 2023
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The White House’s new executive orders pit Americans against each other. Does an arrogant and out-of-touch ruling party not know that division and chaos are sure to follow? Or is that the plan? In this hard-hitting two-part episode of Over the Target Live, Lee Smith speaks with Gene Hamilton and Terry Schilling about the political…
Biden’s New Culture War; ‘Equity’ Orders Are Unconstitutional and Un-American
February 24, 2023
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The White House’s new executive orders pit Americans against each other. Does an arrogant and out-of-touch ruling party not know that division and chaos are sure to follow? Or is that the plan? In this hard-hitting two-part episode of Over the Target Live, Lee Smith speaks with Gene Hamilton and Terry Schilling about the political…
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