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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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Progressives Continue to Push Government Preschool Despite Poor Results

November 1, 2018
Karen R. Effrem, MD

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…

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Flawed Report Uses Pseudoscience to Promote “Social Emotional Learning”

October 17, 2018
Karen R. Effrem, MD

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…

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Government Preschool Doesn’t Work — And Here’s the Proof

September 6, 2018
Jane Robbins

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…

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Screen and Medicate More Students? School Safety Commission Gets Wrong Message

July 23, 2018
Karen R. Effrem, MD

If the White House School Safety Commission is to make wise and helpful recommendations to protect school children, it needs to have good information. Sadly, most of the witnesses chosen…

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“Social Emotional Learning” Advocates Are Still Ignoring Its Many Problems

June 13, 2018
Karen R. Effrem, MD

As Ronald Reagan used to say: “There they go again!” The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) — which receives our hard-earned taxpayer dollars to insinuate social emotional…

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The Real Fix to School Shootings: Bring Back the Missing Fathers

March 13, 2018
Lisa Hudson

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…

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Low Same-Sex Marriage Numbers Betray Truth of LGBT Movement

December 7, 2017
Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg

There has been an incredible push in recent years to propagate “gay marriage” as a civil right. Arguments severed from nature and reason have multiplied as what is really a…

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Mississippi’s Move to Protect the Family Should Be Lauded, Not Attacked

November 21, 2017
Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg

Mississippi has been in the news lately thanks to HB 1523, the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act.” By enacting this sane law, the state has taken a…

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Why Common Core’s Lack of Literature Is Setting Kids Up for Failure

August 22, 2017
Lisa Hudson

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,…

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Puberty Blockers and Gender Dysphoria: 5 Facts Every Parent Should Know

July 12, 2017
Monica Burke

Despite popular reception by LGBT advocacy groups, the efficacy of puberty blocking drugs in treating gender dysphoria is questionable at best, and outright dangerous at worst. Before conceding to the…

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Politics

New Study: Raising Minimum Wage Harms Low-Income Workers

June 28, 2017
Andrea Moury

A paper released yesterday by a group of researchers at the University of Washington reveals that, as conservatives and economists have predicted, drastic minimum wage hikes may indeed harm the…

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Culture

Study: Cuts to Sex Ed Programs Helped Reduce Teen Pregnancy

June 5, 2017
Andrea Moury

Sex education and contraceptives are not the key to reducing the number of teenage pregnancies, a new report from the UK found. The report, which is to be published in…

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Culture

Study: “Existential Distress” Drives Patients to Assisted Suicide, Not Pain

May 26, 2017
Andrea Moury

On Wednesday, The New England Journal of Medicine released a study which calls into question the primary talking point used by supporters of assisted suicide — that people who ask…

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Culture

Does Divorce Make You Drunk? New Study Says Yes.

May 12, 2017
Maggie Gallagher

Married people live healthier, happier, and longer lives, on average. They are better off financially and even have sex more often. But skeptics persistently wonder whether it is marriage itself…

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Culture

New Report Exposes Flimsy Scientific Basis for Transgender Agenda

August 23, 2016
Paul Dupont

A report published by The New Atlantis yesterday casts significant doubt on the prevailing “gender identity” narrative sweeping the nation and raises serious questions about exposing children to a harmful and scientifically suspect…

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Social Issues

Federal Judge Blocks Obama’s Transgender School Mandate

August 22, 2016
Michael Lucchese

This month has been full of reasons to celebrate for social conservatives. First, religious liberty activists won a major victory in California, putting pressure on far-left legislators to back down…

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Social Issues

The Poverty Cure: Get Married

October 29, 2015
Maggie Gallagher

A great piece by the last center-left Democrat in America, Prof. William Galston: Of the many barriers to equal opportunity for African-Americans, differences of family background may well be the…

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Candidate
Social Issues

Santorum: “The Greatest Antidote to Poverty in America Is a Stable Family”

October 27, 2015
Thomas Valentine

At a presidential forum at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Texas, Rick Santorum used data and social science to reveal the real solution to poverty: GRAHAM: Talk to us about how…

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Social Issues

Science Shows Married Couples Protect Children

October 23, 2015
Maggie Gallagher

Over at National Review, Professor Bradford Wilcox says it’s been a rough week for family structure denialists: It’s been a rough two weeks for the family-structure denialists, those progressive academics…

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