Leftist Shadow Governments Control A Lot More Than Our Elections
This kind of tax-exempt political interference is now standard practice for the world’s far-left ultra-rich, and it’s affecting a whole lot more than elections.
Don’t Be Fooled By ‘Conservative’ Groups Pushing A Leftist Takeover Of Civics Education
Fordham is once again hiding behind its undeserved and unquestioned ‘right-leaning’ reputation to help impose progressive education policies.
If You Liked Common Core, You’re Going To Love Joe Biden’s Anti-American Civics Project
We have just the perfect solution for American kids’ deep ignorance about their nation’s founding principles, system of government, and history. It’s making them into political activists!
How Public Schools Paved The Way For Americans To Believe The 1619 Project
In many ways, the adoption of the 1619 Project doesn’t essentially change American history for most students. It still relies on the same methods of history instruction.
Why A Truly Good Education Must Be More Than Job Prep
An obsession with utility demeans students and badly parodies the sacred exchange that happens in a classroom where a person shares something he loves with someone else.
Why Public Schools Are So Likely To Teach Leftist Propaganda
The leftist propaganda taught in schools is no accident. It is the logical conclusion of the prevalent educational philosophy that favors skills over content and engagement over rigor.
Despite Common Core Promises, U.S. Kids Repeat Poor Performance On Latest Global Test
On Tuesday, the latest results from a respected international test showed U.S. students making no progress in math or reading in the past 19 years. It’s the latest puncture in Common Core’s inflated promises.
First Common Core High School Grads Worst-Prepared For College In 15 Years
Grade-school scores on the nation’s most respected test have dropped again. Further, the class of 2019, the first to experience all four high school years under Common Core, is the worst-prepared for college in 15 years.
My Childhood Schooling In The Soviet Union Was Better Than My Kids’ In U.S. Public Schools Today
Ask the people in our immigrant community why we moved to the United States, and hear again and again: ‘For the kids.’ Yet here we are, failing them in one of the most important ways.
How Common Core And Screen Overdoses Are Ruining American Kids’ Intelligence
Between ineffective teaching methods at school and an overdose of screen time at home, our children are becoming intellectually deficient. We need to reverse the trends.
Meet ‘Social-Emotional Learning’: New Education Fad, Same As The Old Fads
Instead of improving classroom achievement and helping students to reach their highest potential, ‘SEL’ doubles down on failed educational fads of the past.
Federally Funded Study: Common Core Sunk U.S. Kids’ Test Scores
In several cases student achievement reversed under Common Core, and in every subject studied students would have been better off if states had not adopted Common Core.
Federalizing School Choice Could Be Trump’s Common Core
The Trump administration now wants to take a successful conservative idea—school choice—and make it susceptible to getting strangled in federal red tape.
Would Marie Curie Have Changed The World If She’d Learned Common Core Math?
Madame Curie became the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate in physics and the first female professor at France’s Sorbonne University. November is the anniversary of her birth.
Dropping Helen Keller From Texas Classes Shows Nationalizing Education Would Be A Disaster
We’d sink into a Chernobyl-level meltdown from the Puget Sound to the Florida Keys over which content to mandate.
9 Years Into Common Core, Test Scores Are Down, Indoctrination Up
Common Core sucked all the energy, money, and motivation right out of desperately needed potential reforms to U.S. public schools for a decade, and for nothing.
How Public Schools Indoctrinate Kids Without Almost Anyone Noticing
Teaching the value of free thought matters now more than ever. Unfortunately, most American public schools take the opposite approach.
Let’s Drop Common Core And Let All Families Truly Choose Their Schools
Centralized mandates have neutered school choice by imposing one kind of education on all schools, thereby actually reducing families’ education choices, finds a new paper.
Obama’s Ed Secretary: I Wish I’d Pushed Common Core ‘Even Harder’
The famously fatuous school leader who continually failed upward says he regrets not re-engineering even more of American life without the input of the American people or their representatives.
New Data Show California Kids’ Math Achievement Took A Nosedive After Common Core
By 2014, California was the top state in eighth-grade algebra enrollment. Common Core erased all those gains almost immediately, shows a new Hoover Institution analysis.
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