Why Is The Trump Administration Stomping All Over Arizona’s School Testing Freedom?
This rejection of state autonomy does not help convince that Washington is prepared to ‘empower states to lead the way,’ or that the Trump administration really supports school choice.
Austin, Texas ‘School Climate Survey’ Tells Students ‘Gender Is How A Person Feels’
Research suggests that simply asking questions about specific negative behaviors increases those behaviors. Yet this practice is growing nationwide in public schools, not just in Austin.
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.
Trump Education Department Strongarms Utah Families Who Oppose Testing Mandates
The U.S. Department of Education is clear in its threat to withhold millions of dollars from Utah simply for following state law and protecting parental rights.
Schools Ditch Academics For Emotional Manipulation
Under such a system teachers become essentially therapists, and students become essentially patients.
Tennessee To Create ‘Safe Spaces’ In K-12 Schools
The federal government has revived a failed push to have schools track and manipulate kids’ feelings and relationships. But ‘safe spaces’ won’t help troubled kids.
Federal Education Mandates Divert Resources From Minority Kids
What Education Secretary John King is doing in the name of minority kids will actually make their education worse.
New Federal Education Law Enshrines ‘New Common Core’
Once again, the party of limited government helps expand it, this time in a new law that supposedly replaces No Child Left Behind and Common Core.