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Karen R. Effrem, MD

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Dr. Karen Effrem and her husband have three children. She is trained as a pediatrician and serves as national education issues chairman for Eagle Forum and president of Education Liberty Watch.
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Education-Industrial Complex Continues Assault on Student Privacy

  • December 4, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
Government and education technology entities are moving ahead with efforts to collect more and more sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) on America’s children and their families. Here is an update…
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U.S. Student Test Scores Plummet Again in Year 4 of Common Core

  • November 7, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
If there was any doubt that the Common Core standards have been harmful to American academic achievement, that doubt should be erased by the 2019 results from the National Assessment…
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Congress to Reconsider Massive College Student Data Grab

  • October 16, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
As Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), the powerful chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, approaches retirement in 2020, he and Congress are making one last push…
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How “Red Flag Laws” Could Open the Door to State Surveillance

  • October 2, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
Several weeks ago, we wrote about the very grave bipartisan concerns over “red flag laws” that have sadly been already passed in 17 states. These laws have been described as…
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Parent Fights Back After Common Core Math Publisher Sues to Silence Him

  • September 27, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
Blain Dillard, the Carey, N.C., parent in the Wake County School District that we wrote about several weeks ago who is being sued by a Common Core math curriculum company…
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New Preschool Changes Are Hurting Children and Crippling Achievement

  • September 11, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
A recent article by Erika Christakis in The Atlantic titled “The New Preschool Is Crushing Kids” again highlights the problems with making kindergarten and preschool overly academic and how the…
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More Voices Join the Chorus Against Social Emotional Learning

  • August 30, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
As alarm about the problems, dangers, and poor research related to social emotional learning (SEL) spreads, prominent new voices are entering the fray to speak against it. Bob Kellogg at…
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Serious Concerns Emerge in Debate over “Red Flag Laws”

  • August 27, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
Red flag laws or “Extreme Risk Protection Orders” have become an intensive topic of discussion and debate after the 2018 Parkland, Fla., shooting as well as the more recent shootings…
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Are Americans Rejecting the Left’s Push for Social Emotional Learning?

  • August 19, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
As this nation continues to contend with major social and political discord and violence, perhaps the education world is turning to the roots of faith present before and since America’s…
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Common Core Math Publisher Sues Parent for Opposing Curriculum

  • August 6, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
According to a local report, the publisher of a controversial Common Core math curriculum used in the Wake County, N.C., public school district (WCPSS) is suing an individual parent for…
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Case of Transgender Teen “Emancipated” from Mother Appealed to Supreme Court

  • July 30, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
The case of Anmarie Calgaro involving her son who was emancipated by several entities in the state of Minnesota without any due process for the mother has now been appealed…
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How States Can Fix Math Education Post-Common Core

  • July 22, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
As the evidence becomes clearer that experts and parents were right about Common Core being an academic disaster and not merely derailed by implementation problems, states must grapple with the…
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2020 Democrats Outline Big-Government Education Plans at NEA Forum

  • July 10, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
On July 5th, ten of the current twenty major Democratic presidential candidates gathered in Houston for the 2019 annual convention of the National Education Association (NEA) to discuss their education…
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“Social Emotional Learning” Standards Continue Ominous National March

  • July 1, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
As chronicled in multiple articles (also here and here) and the Pioneer Institute white paper authored by attorney Jane Robbins and myself, efforts to impose government-determined norms for the attitudes,…
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New Study Shows Why Kids Need Parents, Not State-Run Preschool

  • June 24, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
As the evidence — even from respected pro-preschool researchers — continues to mount that government preschool programs are not particularly helpful and may actually be academically and emotionally harmful, the…
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More Schools Discard Student Privacy in Elusive Quest for Safety

  • June 18, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
As efforts increase to protect school safety in the wake of high-profile school shootings like those in Parkland and Sandy Hook, so do data collection efforts by states and schools…
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States Rush to Adopt “Social Emotional Learning” Standards, Despite Red Flags

  • June 10, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
Despite all evidence and even advice from proponents to be careful in the implementation, supporters of social emotional learning (SEL) standards, assessments, and data collection are following the same playbook…
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Here’s What States Should Do to Really Get Rid of Common Core

  • June 5, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
At the end of last week’s column discussing yet another study demonstrating the colossal academic failure of the Common Core standards in math and English Language Arts (ELA), I said…
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“A Little Troubling”: Study by Pro-Common Core Group Finds Standards Have Failed

  • May 29, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
Yet another study confirms what a miserable academic failure the Common Core standards have turned out to be. The research was carried out by the federally funded Center on Standards,…
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Why Ohio Should Reject “Social Emotional Learning” Standards

  • May 10, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
A committee of the Ohio State Board of Education is scheduled to vote on advancing a proposal to the full state board to implement statewide social emotional learning (SEL) standards…
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