Loneliness, depression, and anxiety are reaching epidemic levels among young Americans, and after pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into mental health care to fight those powerful emotions in and out of the school system, the federal government is asked to pay more. The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) held…
Biden Admin Asks for Billions More to Combat Post-Pandemic ‘Loneliness’ in American Youth
June 13, 2023
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Maldonado’s Pet Project
This is an adapted excerpt from Kenny Xu’s new book “School of Woke: How Critical Race Theory Infiltrated American Schools and Why We Must Reclaim Them.” When she arrived, Hilda Maldonado’s top priority was to entrench bilingual learning into the county’s curriculum, a program she had spent most of her career advocating for as part…
Disney Works to Destroy the Values That Built Its Company
June 7, 2023
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Commentary In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Lawrence v. Texas, found Texas’ anti-sodomy law unconstitutional. This is a free country, the Court proclaimed, and individuals can engage in whatever private consensual sexual activity that they wish. But freedom is not the value that LGBTQ activists seek. They will not rest until their values and…
Labour’s VAT on Private School Fees Will Raise Very Little Revenue: Report
Labour’s strategy of adding VAT to private school fees has been questioned by a think tank that reported the policy to be based on flawed calculations. According to a 2017 Labour’s document called “Funding Britain’s Future” (pdf), VAT on private school fees would yield £1.6 billion a year, which could be invested in state schools instead….
Mom Homeschools Bullied Daughter, Now She Loves Learning and Has Her Own Business
June 6, 2023
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When a major bullying incident proved to be the last straw, this mom from British Columbia took her daughter out of mainstream education and turned to “unschooling” for answers. Three years later, her daughter is thriving and is even running her own candle company. Nine-year-old Lily Harper, who describes herself as a “minipreneur,” has shipped over…
Students’ Dropout Rates Highest in a Decade: Productivity Commission Report
Australia’s school retention rate has dropped to the lowest level in 10 years, with one in five teenagers not finishing high school in 2022. According to the Productivity Commission report on government services published on June 6, only 79 percent of students from year 10 to year 12 finished high school, the lowest in a…
7 Simple Tips to Encourage Your Kids to Write
Children love to tell stories, reenact their exciting adventures, and literally give you a play by play of their entire day. Typically, this storytelling can help the transition into writing. However, some kids, whether they enjoy telling stories or not, are reluctant or simply disinterested in the whole writing process. They may struggle to think…
Summer School for Mom and Dad: Helping Our Fledglings Take Flight
Few words in the English language are sweeter to most young folks, particularly pre-teens, than summertime. No more being roused at dawn to catch a bus. No more racing around the house looking for that missing shoe or English essay. No more days scheduled by bells and classes. No more worrying about tests or homework…
Stop Scaring Our Kids to Death
Commentary As nearly every standardized test is showing, our schools are doing an abysmal job teaching kids how to read or do math. In some cases, kids graduating from high school can barely read their diplomas. But the schools are wildly succeeding with their climate change indoctrination program. When I speak to kids on high…
Michael Zwaagstra: Provinces Should Fast-Track Teacher Certification
Commentary Suppose your local high school urgently needed a new science teacher. Would a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry or physics be eligible for the position? Not if she had a Ph.D. and 30 years of teaching experience at an elite university but no teaching certificate. That’s because only someone with a teaching certificate can…
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