The New York Times Buries the Real Story on Common Core
The New York Times posed this question in a recent story about the effects of Common Core in the 10 years since it was introduced: Did it fail, or does…
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Lisa Hudson
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Lisa Hudson is a founding member of Arizonans Against Common Core and an advocate of classical Christian education and the protection of student privacy. She graduated from Michigan State University School of Law in 1996 and is an active member of the State Bar of Michigan.
Is Technology Setting Up Our Students for Failure?
One of the most obvious changes in education in the last decade has been the proliferation of technology in the classroom. The digital revolution started contemporaneously with the nationwide release of…
Senate GOP’s “School Safety” Bill Would Imperil Student Privacy, Expand Police State
In the midst of the impeachment charade, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and a number of his GOP colleagues introduced a bill to address mass shootings. However, privacy groups, particularly those who…
“Ethno-mathematics”? Seattle Schools Weigh Adding Social Justice to Math Classes
Still reeling from a holiday celebrating that genocidal maniac, Christopher Columbus, schools in Seattle are about to dole out another heaping spoonful of how white men, colonization, and all things…
Judge Kemp’s Bible Gift to Amber Guyger Angers Atheist Group
On Wednesday, October 2, former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of Botham Jean. During the victim impact portion of the…
Greta Thunberg and the Rise of “Eco-Anxiety”
When I was a kid, my siblings pranked me by telling me there was a man living under the basement stairs. Anyone who would secretly live under the basement stairs had…
Rep. Omar Is Wrong: UN Has No Place at US Southern Border
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) recently made the radical suggestion that the United States allow the United Nations to handle the massive influx of immigrants at our southern border. She stated, “We…
The Disturbing Reality Behind “Comprehensive Sexuality Education”
Politicizing and propagandizing in U.S. public schools is at an all-time high. Not only has the far left agenda sucked education into a black hole of safe spaces, hurt feelings, and…
Assisted Suicide Laws Pick Up Support in More States
It was bound to happen. Abortion supporters have made babies fair game for nearly half of a century — the original disposal of the unwanted, the burdensome, the parasite, the…
Planned Parenthood Releases Creepy Sex-Ed Chatbot for Kids
Planned Parenthood isn’t satisfied with having aborted more than 330,000 babies in 2017. Now, in an effort to cast their net a little wider and reel in a larger number…
Is Technology Pushing Teachers Toward Extinction?
Education policy makers are vocal in their lamentations about the current teacher shortage. Although state school leaders across the country espouse their state has it worse than every other state,…
Leftist Identity Politics Claim Another Victim: Laura Ingalls Wilder
As we’ve all heard, Laura Ingalls Wilder was a racist. At least that’s what the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA),…
The Triumph of David Hogg — And the Death of Civil Discourse
The American tapestry is woven extensively with stories of conflict — from the first settlement at Jamestown, to the Civil War and the numerous battles in-between that took place as…
The Real Fix to School Shootings: Bring Back the Missing Fathers
This article began as a discussion of the effects of fatherlessness on our education system. But then, before the ideas had even taken shape, Nikolas Cruz walked into a school…
“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…
Are Religious Schools in America Losing Their Religion?
In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI said, “The spiritual crisis overtaking the West is the most serious since the fall of the Roman Empire near the end of the 5th Century.”…
How Hollywood Feminists Enabled a Predator
Let me be completely clear: if Harvey Weinstein is guilty of the sexual harassment, assault, and rape claims currently making headlines, he is a pig, a predator, and a criminal.…
This Anti-Trump School Librarian Embodies Everything Wrong with Gov’t Education
Last week, an obscure school librarian from an obscure elementary school in Cambridge, Mass., took a calculated risk that, in hindsight, is really better described as a miscalculated risk. Liz…
Why Common Core’s Lack of Literature Is Setting Kids Up for Failure
Recent research shows the average 12th grader reads at a 7th grade level. This finding isn’t terribly surprising. According to Renaissance Learning, developer of the popular Accelerated Reader, in 2015-16,…
Trump Budget Would Defund Two Failed Progressive School Experiments
Education reformists are, once again, wailing and gnashing teeth as the Trump administration’s proposed budget for 2018 eliminates a number of programs funded through the Department of Education. Two of…
