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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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…
Education-Industrial Complex Continues Assault on Student Privacy
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…
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…
U.S. Student Test Scores Plummet Again in Year 4 of Common Core
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…
“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…
Congress to Reconsider Massive College Student Data Grab
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…
Parent Fights Back After Common Core Math Publisher Sues to Silence Him
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…
BBC Unleashes Gender Propaganda in English Schools
The BBC has unleashed a flagship of ideological imperialism on the schools of England. By a series of videos intended to indoctrinate teachers and students alike in the vagaries of…
New Preschool Changes Are Hurting Children and Crippling Achievement
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…
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…
More Voices Join the Chorus Against Social Emotional Learning
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…
Maryland Lawmakers Prioritize Leftism over Education
The founding father, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Chase once said that “religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure,…
Are Americans Rejecting the Left’s Push for Social Emotional Learning?
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…
Common Core Math Publisher Sues Parent for Opposing Curriculum
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…
How States Can Fix Math Education Post-Common Core
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…
2020 Democrats Outline Big-Government Education Plans at NEA Forum
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…
Maryland Drops School from State Voucher Program over Christian Beliefs
In the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 2015 landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, it concerned some jurists that institutions favoring traditional marriage might receive heavy-handed treatment from the…
“Social Emotional Learning” Standards Continue Ominous National March
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,…
New Study Shows Why Kids Need Parents, Not State-Run Preschool
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…
