Education Reform Opinion
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CHU: Some Republicans Want Miguel Cardona Gone. They Might Come to Regret It.
In the latest twist to an ongoing saga that began last September, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona came under…
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SANDERS: Education Climate Change
Right now, in north Texas, instruction has ground to a halt in many classrooms, but that’s not apparent to education…
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MYERS: Critical Race Theory: Intriguing, but Wrong for K-12 Education
Critical Race Theory (CRT), a relatively young legal theory that has been circulating in legal academic circles since the 1980s,…
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PRASAD: The Cult of Masked Schoolchildren
History will not look kindly on our evidence-free decision to make kids suffer most.
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HOUCHENS and GAREN: Why We Should Advance School Choice, Not Critical Race Theory
This problem is made worse by the lack of transparency in what is being taught in most schools and the…
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McLAUGHLIN: What the Florida CRT Bill Actually Says
Isaac has already hit the Associated Press for misrepresenting Florida’s anti-critical race theory bill. TV commentators are running with the…
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SCHILLING: Why We Pulled Our Kids Out of Public School
We were part of the public-school-to-homeschool exodus in early 2020 — and in our opinion, a lot of the public…
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THOMPSON: Children’s Rights Defined and Defended
We need to drill down much further than we have thus far to determine what sort of claim, if any,…
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DeANGELIS and MAKRIDIS: School Closures Have Been Made With Politics in Mind — Not Science
The long-term closing of schools, and the harm it did to children nationwide, was a decision based not on health,…
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FRANKEL: How to Keep Library Porn From Kids Without Banning Books
Librarians are deluding themselves if they truly believe parental concerns about books kids can find at school are all right-wing…
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WATCH: School Choice Battle Will Decide Whether State or Parents Control Children’s Education
There are arguments in the US of whether parents should be able to choose which schools their children go to.
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ROSIAK: Meet the Seattle Schools Woke Indoctrination Czar Who Married a Child Molester
America's schools are following the footsteps of Seattle on a quest for racial equity. But Seattle's efforts have been marked…
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HEDGES: To Introduce Viewpoint Diversity, Ignite Curiosity
Headlines such as “Texas school leader suggests balancing Holocaust with 'opposing' views” misrepresent the aim of viewpoint diversity and make…
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INGRAHAM: Despite the Known Harm, Schools Shutdown Yet Again
With closures primarily occurring in large urban districts, the number of students and families negatively impacted by this latest disruption…
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HESS: The ‘Success Sequence’ Can Help Schools Bridge Our Divides
Survey finds strong backing for teaching about value of degree, job, marriage, children—in that order.
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CHAIT: Progressives Must Reckon With the School Closing Catastrophe
Sometimes you need to own up to an error so it’s not repeated.
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McDONALD: Why ‘Black Minds Matter’ Could Be a Game-Changer for Families Trapped in America’s Struggling Schools
Growing up on the east side of Jacksonville, Florida, the daughter of a teenage mother, Denisha Merriweather was failing.
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DABROWSKI and KLINGER: Why the Chicago Teachers Union Always Gets What It Wants
For the fifth time in 10 years, the Chicago Teachers Union shut students out of the classroom this month.
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INGRAHAM: What Will It Take to Put K-12 Education on a Better Path?
It’s going to take one state to set an example – one state to show the courage to make policy…
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ROSS: While Adults Sow Fear, Schoolchildren Suffer
There is no reason left to avoid in-person education.
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DeGROW: Disadvantaged Students Harmed the Most by Remote Schooling
Time is now to fund families to restore lost learning.
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ELMORE: Conservatives Can Make Education a Winning Issue
Prompted by the folly of Terry McAuliffe during the Virginia gubernatorial election saying that “I don’t think parents should be…
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EDEN: The K-12 Cartel Is Holding Children Hostage
History never quite repeats itself. But if we don’t learn from it, then it can quickly rhyme in hideous couplets.…
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KINNETT: Why Two Public School Teachers Are Choosing to Homeschool
How do two highly effective-rated, public school teachers make the call to homeschool their kids? It wasn’t an immediate decision,…
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ROTHERHAM: Bloomberg’s $750M Grant Is the Jolt the Charter Sector Needs — and a Litmus Test for White Democrats Who Claim to Back School Choice
If education reform were a religion, then professing to just “follow the evidence” and “listen to communities” would anchor the…
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