Commentary Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently summarized the core problem with Chicago’s public education system in plain but powerful terms. Lightfoot stated during a recent debate with two of her opponents in the Chicago mayoral race that the Chicago Teachers Union brought “chaos” to Chicago Public Schools. Lightfoot blamed CTU for the district’s enrollment decline and criticized the…
Mayor Lightfoot: Chicago Teachers Union ‘Brought Chaos’ to Education
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Commentary Many of the bizarre features of the pandemic response can be explained by industrial self-interest, graft, power lust, confusion, and so on. One feature does not have such an obvious explanation: the closure of public schools in some places for as long as two years. The extremely low-to-minimal risk to the kids was known from…
Parents Want a Complete Overhaul of the Education System
Commentary In the wake of COVID-19, people now overwhelmingly believe that the education system’s broader purpose needs to be rethought. This begins with a shift away from standardized testing, college prep, and a one-size-fits-all model and toward personalized curricula, practical skills, and subject mastery. A new Purpose of Education Index survey released by the Massachusetts-based…
Educator Sexual Misconduct Is On The Rise In US Public Schools: Report
January 17, 2023
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From sexting to rape, there is a disturbing uptick in sexual misconduct by public school teachers and other staff against students across the United States. The growing problem was recently highlighted by an audit of Chicago public schools where dozens of staff members ranging from teachers, administrators, and counselors, to security officers—even a sign language…
Washington Community Divided Over Gay Pride Flag in Schools
Washington state’s Kennewick School District Board will hold a final vote this month on a policy limiting the size, number, and placement of all flags except the U.S. flag in school classrooms. The action was prompted by parent and student complaints about the prominent display of the gay pride flag in some classrooms and has…
Biden Education Department’s Latest Plan for Socializing Higher Education
Commentary The U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday released new rules for income-based repayment of student loans, in what amounts to nothing less than a new socialism of higher education. The scheme will cause a massive inflow of loans into the new system and cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. Income-based repayment is affordable by definition….
‘The Great Awakening’: While Students Flee Public Universities, Christian Schools Are Only Getting Bigger
January 11, 2023
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Christian colleges and universities are seeing an increase in enrollment despite the national enrollment rate of college students being on a decline, higher education experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The national undergraduate enrollment rate dropped 1.1 percent during the fall 2022 semester while the rate declined a total of 4.2 percent since 2020, according to…
With Schools Ditching Merit for Diversity, Families of High Achievers Head for the Door
January 5, 2023
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Alex Shilkrut has deep roots in Manhattan, where he has lived for 16 years, works as a physician, and sends his daughter to a public elementary school for gifted students in coveted District 2. It’s a good life. But Shilkrut regretfully says he may leave the city, as well as a job he likes in…
A Republic If You Can Teach It
December 6, 2022
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Commentary President Biden has a civics lesson that he is fond of and regularly repeats. It is about how the United States is unique in the world because of the founding ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. “Unlike every other nation on Earth, we were founded based on an idea,” he notes before adding…
Cheating the Children
October 27, 2022
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Commentary While President Biden is trying to win a court victory for his student debt forgiveness proposal, he should be focusing instead on the latest dreadful report by the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP). In what is called the nation’s report card, NAEP has released its latest findings on the performance of fourth- and…
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