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February 8, 2018
Lisa Hudson

“Personalized Learning”: The Big Problem with Education’s Latest Fad
We're a culture of trend followers, forever chasing the next big thing -- whether clothes, cars, food, or fashion. The education sector is no different, racking up failed trend after failed trend in the name of saving education. Take personalized learning, for example, which has been tried again and again in various forms since the 1970s. Nearly 50 years later, the concept continues to offer questionable results for schools and students, yet it won’t seem to go away.[...]
February 2, 2018
Karen R. Effrem, MD

APP’s Jane Robbins Reveals Dangers of Gov’t Data Mining to Congress (VIDEO)
On January 30th, American Principles Project senior fellow Jane Robbins gave outstanding testimony at a U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee hearing titled “Protecting Privacy, Promoting Policy: Evidence-Based Policymaking and the Future of Education.” She spoke eloquently about the critical need for data privacy over data security, the dangers of social emotional learning, and the enormous problems of steering students into certain careers based on predictive algorithms. You can watch her opening statement below:[...]
January 30, 2018
Jonathan Decker

The Most Troubling Number from the Latest GDP Report: “2.8%”
Last week, the Commerce Department released a preliminary estimate showing the U.S. economy grew at 2.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017. This 2.6 percent expansion came as somewhat of a disappointment to economists, who anticipated a "hat trick" of 3 consecutive quarters of 3-plus percent growth, as well as to the New York Fed, which predicted the economy would grow around 4 percent.[...]