This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation.[...]
Happy New Year! Here is a brief update on federal education issues we were following before Christmas and some predictions as 2018 begins. As always, the contrast between policies that uphold the Constitution, academic excellence, parental rights, and data privacy versus those that expand big government control and corporate interests, using student as mere widgets in the labor supply pipeline, is stark.[...]
Good or bad, Virginia never fails to excite.[...]
Planned Parenthood may be losing thousands of patients a year, but it is now gaining support from a new source -- pro-abortion license plates in Nebraska.[...]
This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation.[...]
The corporations, foundations, investors, and politicians funded by them have been working hard this year to promote competency-based education (CBE), also called personalized learning, as well as its evil sibling, social emotional learning (SEL). CBE, although poorly defined by proponents, is essentially machine-based learning with constant assessment, including SEL assessment and profiling, to track students into higher education and workforce futures by inaccurate and inhuman computer-generated algorithms. Unfortunately, that also includes the Higher Education Act, now called the PROSPER Act, discussed in last week’s article. Here is the promised review of the CBE aspects of that bill.[...]
In the world of conservative millennials, two things have come to the forefront of the conversation over the past week: Tomi Lahren and the pro-life versus pro-abortion debate.[...]
This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation.[...]
Liberal Republicans are reportedly plotting to ally with Democrats to bail out Obamacare -- and to make matters worse, they’re doubling down on Obamacare’s worst excesses.[...]