Up To 60 Percent Of College Students Need Remedial Classes. This Needs To Change Now
The prevalence of remedial college courses represents an obvious failing of our K-12 public school system. Increasing school choice could be a solution.
Is A Toxic Public School Environment Behind Increases In Child Suicide?
With increased anxiety and suicide among children, combined with shifts to giant-sized schools, kids’ public school experience today is nothing like that of their parents.
Today’s The Perfect Day To Remember Poland’s Working-Class Revolt Against Communism
Lech Walesa turns 75 in September and 35 years ago won the Nobel Peace Prize. He’s probably the most important labor leader of our era.
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.
What Your Kid’s Teacher Is Scared To Tell You About Smartphones
Although smartphones have largely mollified students’ destructive energy, they have also smothered their creative energy and shaved off their humanity.
Why LeBron’s I Promise School Has A Big Chance Of Failure
Sending piles of extra money to district schools, either via taxpayers or celebrities, has not produced the outcomes we’re continually promised. Real reform comes from a fresh start.
Students Should Be Responsible For Their Performance, Not Just Teachers
Failing to meet expected test growth targets does not affect my fifth grade students in any real way, and they and their families know it.
Why Preschool Doesn’t Usually Do Much Good For Small Children
Placing kids in the care of trained professionals with abundant resources instead of a parent with bad habits should reverse their downward trajectory. Why doesn’t it?
Emails Reveal High School Teachers Plotting To Hide Their Political Bias From Parents
The Left is abusing American high school education in its struggle to gain and retain political power. We only found out about this incident by accident. How many more?
Open Borders Are Not Libertarian So Long As America Is A Welfare State
What morality—and what electoral strategy—prioritizes the right of a Honduran to cross the border over the right of an American not to be forced to feed, house, and clothe her family?
Cuomo’s Idea To Let Teachers Decide When To Yank Guns From People’s Homes Is Dumb
I want kids who need help to get it. But I’m not sure how using teachers as informants can actually protect students in a way that’s sensible, positive, or helpful.
Indiana Teacher: I Was Forced To Resign Because I Won’t Pretend Boys Can Be Girls
An Indiana orchestra teacher says public school administrators gave him three options at the end of this school year: refer to students as the opposite sex, resign, or be fired.
Campus Insanity Hits High School As Teachers Protest ‘Eurocentric’ ‘Imperialism’ Of History Classes
It’s idiotic to decide who is important to study based on what their skin and hair looks like rather than our available knowledge about their civilization and its effects on the world.
Due To Violence His Policies Increased, Obama’s Education Secretary Calls For Boycotting Public Schools
Obama education secretary Arne Duncan wants to know: ‘What if no children went to school until gun laws changed to keep them safe?’
What Some Teachers Think About Carrying Guns Doesn’t Match Historical Reality
Before 1995, states let teachers carry concealed handguns at school. Research was unable to find a single instance when faculty improperly used a permitted handgun at school.
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.
It’s Not Sci-Fi: China Is Developing Tech That Can Mold U.S. Kids’ Minds
Chinese companies are buying up U.S. companies that store mammoth personal data on American children and adults. National-security analysts are starting to take notice.
Why The STEAM Fad In Schools Isn’t About A Better Education
Identity-group ‘diversity’ is now ‘an explicit job qualification’ in scientific disciplines, altering the selection and training of future scientists.
5 Ways Teacher Strikes Revealed Public Schools Indoctrinate Kids
Here’s what I learned about how schools manipulate kids for politics when I asked several parents to share experiences learned during the Oklahoma teacher walkout.
Stanford Study: The Most Religious Kids Do Best In School
Given other research showing kids are more likely to retain faith when attending strongly religious schools, this suggests high religiosity can also boost academic achievement.
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