Corporate America Continues to Treat Students as Widgets
Tom Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, gave a speech last week on the “State of American Business,” in which he described the Chamber’s views and plans on…
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4 Important Takeaways from the Federal School Safety Report
The Federal Commission on School Safety released their final report this past week. Given its sweeping scope, the report naturally contained many recommendations that were seen as controversial, regardless of…
No More Grades? New Program Looks to Recycle Failed Ideas at U.S. High Schools
A consortium of the most elite high schools in the nation are attempting to build a new kind of computerized high school transcript that will embody more than what they…
DeVos’ Swiss Agreement Overlooks Deep Problems with School-to-Work Model
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, along with the Secretaries of Labor and Commerce, recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Swiss government to collaborate in the area of…
Dangerously Flawed “TeenScreen” Mental Health Program Returning to Schools
As the push for more school-based mental health intervention increases after recent high profile school shootings, one particularly controversial and inaccurate mental health screening instrument, “TeenScreen”, is starting to make…
New Evidence Shows Common Core Has Been a Total Disaster
This article was originally posted at Townhall. Most public schools are still afflicted with the Common Core national standards. Paid advocates such as the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation continue to push Common Core despite overwhelming…
Violent Attack in Fla. School Shows Danger of Obama-Era Discipline Policy
Andrew Pollack — father of Meadow Pollack, one of the seventeen students and staff murdered in the Parkland shooting last February — recently posted a two-part video of a fight…
2018 Midterms Could Have Wide Impact on Education Issues
The 2018 midterm elections are (almost) now in the books. Here is a brief review of the education outcomes relating to Common Core, Congress and FedEd, school funding, and school…
Progressives Continue to Push Government Preschool Despite Poor Results
Despite evidence that preschool is at best ineffective and at worst harmful, two more signs have appeared showing that progressives from both parties are not giving up on expanding these…
Whose Children? Challenges to Parental Rights Multiply
Earlier this month, New Jersey became the latest state to institute a policy threatening parental rights — adding to a growing nationwide hostility to the already fragile institution of the…
Falling ACT Scores Are Latest Evidence of Common Core’s Failure
ACT, the publisher of one of the two most often used college entrance exams in the nation, recently released a major report, “The Condition of College and Career Readiness –…
Flawed Report Uses Pseudoscience to Promote “Social Emotional Learning”
The latest report of the National Commission on Social Emotional and Academic Learning continues to promote questionable brain science in the service of having government schools, corporations, or their foundations…
New Report Reveals the Twin Dangers of Common Core and School Choice
A thorough new white paper from the Pioneer Institute titled “Common Core, School Choice and Rethinking Standards-Based Reform” expertly discusses the mountain of evidence showing the flaws and failures of…
Congress Deepens the Education Swamp with New Spending Bill
The education swamp-expanding budget process discussed a few weeks ago is now near completion. The table below shows the final levels of difference between this fiscal year and last in…
FBI Warns of Grave Cyber Security Threat to Students from School Tech
Finally! Although the horse may be long out of the barn, the FBI should nevertheless be commended for issuing this warning about the dangers of education technology and cyber security…
New Report Exposes Serious Problems with Charter Schools
About a year ago, I wrote about the stunningly precipitous (but deserved) 13-percentage point drop in support for charter schools nationwide. Although these alternative public schools have gained back a…
Common Core Has Utterly Failed — But These Supporters Won’t Let It Go
This article was originally posted at Townhall. Proponents of the failed and destructive Common Core experiment refuse to let it go. Bill Gates, who funded a large chunk of Common Core…
Opposition Grows to Flawed Obama-Era School Discipline Policies
The debate over what Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos should do about the Obama-era “Dear Colleague Letter” regarding school discipline, especially in light of recent school shootings, rages on. This…
Government Preschool Doesn’t Work — And Here’s the Proof
This article was originally posted at The American Spectator and co-authored by Dr. Karen Effrem, president of Education Liberty Watch. On the theory that more government programs can solve any public-education…
Pro-Common Core Republicans Suffer Big Losses in 2018 Primaries
Although many factors are involved, an encouraging trend for parents and grassroots activists is emerging in this 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary season. Those candidates listening to parents by opposing Common…
