New Report: Winners and Losers of Common Core
Teresa Mull of the Heartland Institute writes about a new report analyzing the enormous funding of the Common Core national standards — where the money came from, what it was…
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Jane Robbins
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Jane Robbins is an attorney and senior fellow with the American Principles Project.
Obama Administration Wants to Kiss Your Local Schools Goodbye
If the Obama administration and its supporters have their way, the suburban neighborhood school could be headed for extinction. In a veritable symphony of bureaucratic coordination, the administration has figured…
Civil Rights for Me, But Not for Thee
The Obama administration’s campaign to force schools to open up restrooms, locker rooms, overnight sleeping accommodations, and probably sports teams to students of either sex is not going well. The…
E-Rate Is Another Failed Big Government Program, Why Not Double Down?
Among the silver bullets loaded into the education chamber has been, for many years, Internet access for schools. In the mid-1990s federal officials including President Bill Clinton, Internet inventor Al…
Inferior Reading Standards Lead to Inferior Readers
The far-left Center for American Progress (CAP) has issued a report noting that as little as five percent of the English curriculum for 12th grade consists of university-level texts. Seniors…
Maryland School Official Wants to Keep This Transgender Policy Secret from Parents
The Washington Times and HotAir.com report that parents in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County Public School District will be kept in the dark when their daughters are forced to share sleeping…
California Anti-Religious Freedom Bill Weakened — But Not Dead Yet
The saga of the anti-religion bill pending in the California Assembly (see here, here, and here) has taken another turn. And this one — plus the relentless march of time —…
Are Brain Scans The Future Of Education?
We’ve reported on two dangerous education trends being promoted by the U.S. Department of Education (USED): social-emotional learning (SEL) and high-tech brain-mapping to “personalize” education by probing how a child’s…
Make No Mistake: Religious Freedom Dies on Hillary’s Watch
Last Wednesday Hillary Clinton made her pitch for the Mormon vote, publishing an op ed in the Deseret News about her devotion to religious freedom. Most observers don’t immediately associate…
Major Victory for Christians in California — Wow!
In the battle against the totalitarian Left, every victory is welcome. Christians and other people of faith should celebrate such a victory in California – but keep the powder dry…
The Latest Big Education Fad, Social-Emotional Learning, Is As Bad As It Sounds
The U.S. Department of Education (USED) longs to plumb the psyches of our children (as its own reports reveal – see here and here), and it enjoys the eager complicity…
Democrats Wage War on Themselves Over Opt-Out Movement
An unintended consequence of the Common Core standards-and-assessments scheme is dissension among liberal interests over the testing. The “opt out” movement comprises essentially two categories: parent activists seeking to protect…
Why Did These 12 States Betray Their Own Sovereignty?
Most of us are familiar with Stockholm syndrome, a psychological condition in which hostages develop feelings of solidarity with their captors and negative feelings toward others, such as the police,…
Common Core’s National Curriculum Has Arrived
In May 2014, conservative columnist George Will warned that Common Core represented the “thin edge of an enormous wedge” and that “sooner or later you inevitably have a national curriculum.”…
Why Are Conservatives Still Listening to This Common Core Supporter?
Education Week reports that former Education Secretary William Bennett is leading a new education-policy group called Conservative Leaders for Education (CLE). The goal is to take advantage of the demise…
No, Gov. Richardson, Common Core Does Not Help Hispanic Students
Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson apparently didn’t get the email from the Democratic National Committee warning its mouthpieces to avoid the “political third rail” of Common Core. In the…
Is California Forcing LGBT Indoctrination on Schools?
Now that most sane Californians who are not billionaires have fled the state (and God bless the intrepid remnant who remain to fight!), the Left faces little opposition to its…
New GOP Platform: The Good, the Bad, and the Very Concerning
The Republican Platform was released on Monday, the first day of the convention. Much of the K-12 education plank is good; parts are concerning. Here are a few initial impressions. The…
Why Did a Liberal Teachers’ Union Honor This GOP Senator?
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) must be very proud. Along with Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), he has received the National Education Association (NEA)’s “highest honor,” the Friend of Education award. The…
Ten More States Sue Over Obama’s Transgender Edict — But One GOP Governor Surrenders
Last Friday brought good news and bad news in the gender-dysphoria wars. As we’ve come to expect in the education arena, though not without disappointment, the bad news arrived at…
