Education Reform Opinion
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MAGNESS: School Choice’s Antiracist History
Vouchers sped up integration, while teachers unions fought them to preserve segregation.
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EDEN: Meet the Media’s Top ‘Domestic Terrorist’
Why was this man so angry? According to a Daily Wire article, it was because his ninth grade daughter had…
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DEBORAH: Why We Must Protect School Choice
It takes brave men and women to stand up to the inhumanities that are occurring today. As we see many…
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IZUMI: Parents Unhappy About School Policies Look to School Choice
In response to COVID-19 requirements, controversial curricula, and other unpopular policies, many parents are exiting public schools and opting for…
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McCLUSKEY: Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy
Tension between liberty and democracy is ancient, dating back at least to the time of Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato.
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WATCH: Families Abandoning Public Schools in Droves
The totalitarian-minded education establishment and its extreme left-wing allies are starting to freak out as conservatives abandon futile efforts to…
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SAILER: Equity in Disguise: Educational Nonprofits Use ‘Social and Emotional Learning’ to Smuggle Divisive Politics Into the Classroom
The substance of social and emotional learning has undergone a subtle but important shift.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWS GROUP: Growing Efforts to Reform School System
Californians have been dissatisfied with the state’s public schools for decades, but to quote a famous entertainer of the 20th…
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BUTCHER: What Is the NSBA, and Why Is It Trying to Shut Down Parents?
A special interest group unfamiliar to many outside education circles has prompted Washington to investigate parents who attend school board…
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SULLIVAN: How Parents Fighting for Better Schools Found Themselves Labeled Domestic Terrorists
Two governments are in the news for trying to criminalize the act of insulting public officials. One is the Beijing-controlled…
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DEVINE: Virginia Dad Vilified for Defending Daughter Shows Rot at Heart of System
The callousness is what is so hard to stomach from the progressive elites of Loudoun County, Virginia, the wealthy dormitory…
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REILLEY: What Is Critical Race Theory, Really? And Why That’s Often the Wrong Question
Parents reject most of this package not because they are bigots or too complacent in suburbia but because they believe…
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FRIEDRICHS: The National School Board Association Turning Against Parents Doesn’t Surprise Me
I’m a longtime teacher. I’ve witnessed school board nonsense for decades. I wish I could say the National School Board…
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WATCH: Ben Shapiro on the Shocking Report Alleging the Loudoun County District Covered Up a Sexual Assault
The Loudon County Public Schools board was under fire during its public meeting Tuesday night, following a blockbuster report from…
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ANTONUCCI: How Schools Could Be Closed for More Than Five Months and Still Spend More Than They Did the Year Before
The COVID pandemic ensured that the 2019-20 school year would be remembered for classrooms shutting down and districts struggling to…
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TURLEY: Achieving Equity Through Mediocrity: Why Elimination of Gifted Programs Should Worry Us All
Across the country, school districts are removing advanced programs and even standardized testing to achieve an artificial appearance of equity.
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KIRSANOW, ROSS and NIKITAS: Where Are Teachers Getting Critical Race Theory? In Teachers’ Colleges
American educators don’t need the government’s encouragement to import these views into the classroom. CRT is in the pipeline, and…
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PONDISCIO: The Unexamined Rise of Therapeutic Education
Social and emotional learning (SEL) has drifted ever closer to being a central purpose of education without a full and…
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CONDIE: Microschools Aim to Personalize Learning and Disrupt the Status Quo
Imagine a learning environment where students' needs are individually met; where personalized instruction is delivered because class sizes are manageable;…
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BOZZELLO: Teachers Unions Fought to Keep Schools Closed – Don’t Let Them Forget It
The revisionist historians at the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers would now like parents to believe…
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INGRAHAM: How Teacher Shortages Are Making Public Schools Even Worse
Until public schools recognize and address the reasons students and staff are taking flight, they won’t be able to recover…
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WONG: Active Shooter Drills May Not Be the Answer to School Gun Violence
Students adjusting to another school year disrupted by COVID-19 also face a different kind of public-health threat: record gun violence.
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McDONALD: Cities Lead the Way in (Another) Massive Fall Exodus From Public Schools
Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle are among the cities to see public school enrollment plummet for a second consecutive year.
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LOWRY: The War on Gifted-and-Talented Programs
Gifted students have to check their privilege and get over themselves.
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SCHWALBACH: The First Step to Rightsizing Education Spending Is Reforming Teacher Pensions
While spending on employee benefits has steadily increased since 2002, salary expenditures have remained essentially flat.
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