Trump’s Education Budget Offers Good News for Parents
In last week’s column, I mentioned four things that President Donald Trump could do to keep his education promises. One had to do with the budget: 3.) Cut the Federal…
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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.
4 Ways Trump Can Keep His Promises on Education
Despite consistently promising to end Common Core in nearly every stump speech as a candidate, which was likely one key aspect of his stunning election victory, those words “Common Core”…
New Utah Bill Shows Common Core Still Alive and Dangerous
In researching the psychologically manipulative aspects of the Common Core standards and aligned tests in 2014 and 2015, I came across this very alarming statement: ASCA [American School Counselors Association]…
The Government’s Latest Education Experiments Are Truly Scary
The nanny-state-sponsored, womb-to-tomb effort to manage, assess and track everything about your young children — including their attitudes, values, and beliefs — is moving ahead at break-neck speed. Here is…
Will Trump and DeVos Protect Preschoolers from Transgender Ideologues?
In good news this week for student privacy and safety, the Trump administration announced it would be dropping objections raised by the Obama Justice Department (DOJ) to a nationwide injunction…
National Organizations Seek to Impose SEL Standards Across the Nation
This article was originally posted at Conservative Review and co-authored by Jane Robbins, a senior fellow at the American Principles Project. The battle over who will direct the hearts and minds of…
Grassroots vs. Establishment Battle Evident in GOP Education Platform
Although present in many other areas of the Republican Party Platform, the struggle between parents/grassroots activists and corporate education reform/data overlords is no more evident than in education. That fight…
Trump’s Leading VP Candidates Are Not Strong on Common Core and Fed Ed
Donald Trump is set to announce his vice-presidential choice sometime this week, before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland begins on Monday. Despite occasional stumbles, such as identifying education as one…
Memo to Big Data: Parents Are Furious — Not Fearful — About Data-Mining
A recent column by Brenda Leong of the Brookings Institution condescendingly intones that parents are clueless and fearful about the glories of womb-to-tomb data-collection for our children, including social-emotional (psychological) data.…
The Dark Side of Student Data Mining
Janice Gobert’s recent op-ed in US News & World Report is another classic example of the huge disconnect between parents and the big government and corporate education-technology “Big Data” machine. Big Data…
Kasich Wins Praise From Corporate Education Establishment
Politics K-12, the Education Week blog, compared the remaining five presidential candidates on how well they have performed on implementing this list of education reforms: Strongly back charter schools, and…
Trump Lists Education Among Top Three Roles of Federal Government
Businessman Donald Trump has gained an incredibly loyal following attracted to his putative outsider status. Significant numbers of education activists are happy, because he has frequently said, “Common Core is a…
Jeb Bush’s Friends Spend Big to Support Student Data Grab
Just as the Common Core pushing textbook publishing giants like Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson have had financial incentive to support Jeb Bush and his now former organization, the Foundation…
Tampa Bay Times Examines Rubio’s Involvement in Common Core
Alex Leary of the Tampa Bay Times discussed Common Core’s role in the campaign of the two Florida presidential candidates, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush. The article, titled “Rubio may…
Six Reasons Jeb’s Plan Fails to End Federal Tyranny in Education
Former Florida Governor and presidential candidate Jeb Bush released his education plan on January 18th. In it, he tries hard to sound like he cares about and supports local control and…
Four Reasons Why Student Privacy Is in Grave Danger — Unless Congress Rejects This Bill
There is no rest for the weary. Congress continues to erode student privacy along with parental autonomy. In February, we warned of the bill to reauthorize the National Center for…
Nanny State Preschool Expansion — Another Reason the ESEA Rewrite Should Be Voted Down
This post was co-authored by Jane Robbins, an attorney and senior fellow at the American Principles Project. Congressional leadership has decided to ignore grassroots Americans yet again and give President…
