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May 27, 2020
The Importance of Reading Books
Books have always been treasures to thinkers, but given today’s politically correct public educational system, they are even more important for anyone desiring to achieve independent and critical thinking.
Education
May 26, 2020
The Rigid Old Normal
When the Covid-19 craziness subsides, our calcified zip-code education laws will endure.
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Education
May 22, 2020
The Future of College
COVID-19 has disrupted almost all aspects of life, including higher education. What does the future of higher education hold?
Education
May 19, 2020
School Choice Ascending
As traditional public schools grapple with the effects of Covid-19, many parents are awakening to school choice.
Education
May 4, 2020
Common Core Has Led to ‘Historic’ Drop in Achievement Scores, Study Finds
A new study has found the adoption of the Common Core State Standards has led to a 'historic' drop in student achievement scores.
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Education
June 2, 2020
The tortured plan to open schools in the fall should convince parents to homeschool if at all possible.
May 27, 2020
Books have always been treasures to thinkers, but given today’s politically correct public educational system, they are even more important for anyone desiring to achieve independent and critical thinking.
May 26, 2020
When the Covid-19 craziness subsides, our calcified zip-code education laws will endure.
May 22, 2020
COVID-19 has disrupted almost all aspects of life, including higher education. What does the future of higher education hold?
May 19, 2020
As traditional public schools grapple with the effects of Covid-19, many parents are awakening to school choice.
May 4, 2020
A new study has found the adoption of the Common Core State Standards has led to a 'historic' drop in student achievement scores.
May 1, 2020
Idaho lawmakers are considering replacing the Common Core standards with a more rigorous and flexible plan
April 28, 2020
The Colloquium for the Advancement of Free-Enterprise Education at the University of Texas-Dallas teaches students about the foundations and history of the nation's economic system
April 28, 2020
The great majority of peer-reviewed studies on homeschooling finds that kids educated by their parents generally outperform their traditionally schooled counterparts in various ways.
April 22, 2020
An illuminating study comparing education in America’s progressive and conservative cities opens a major can of worms.
April 20, 2020
Often parents have no idea how public schools are failing their children. Coronavirus is making parents examine the benefits of homeschooling.
April 16, 2020
IU-Bloomington joined the six other components in the IU System that have also elected to become test optional.
April 15, 2020
Temporary Los Angeles teacher union contract, inspired by COVID-19, liberates teachers, but parents and kids are still held captive, of course.
April 13, 2020
For-profit schools like Lambda are an important alternative to traditional universities that impose a heavy financial burden on students.
April 8, 2020
As the COVID-19 crisis continues, much of the Big-Ed/Big Union complex maintains its inflexibility.
April 2, 2020
A new study finds “conservative” cities do a far better job of educating minority students than “progressive” cities.
April 1, 2020
Los Angeles teacher union leader is using the coronavirus crisis as an excuse to trash charter schools.
March 26, 2020
Chicago teachers unions expressed their opposition to charter schools in 2019 by demanding the continuation of a moratorium on additional charter schools in the city.
March 25, 2020
North Carolina Superior Court Judge David Lee ordered the state to formulate a plan to increase spending on K-12 education by an estimated $8 billion.
March 24, 2020
Since its founding, the Martin Center has defended freedom of expression on campus, with a special focus on colleges and universities in North Carolina.
March 24, 2020
Whether it’s a pandemic, a damn panic, or all the above, the coronavirus has turned us into a nation of homeschoolers.
March 23, 2020
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) give bad marks for failing to protect students' rights.
March 20, 2020
Communications conference critiques free speech.
March 18, 2020
Under the ISA model, the student pays little or no tuition up front, and repays education costs as a percentage of their income.
March 12, 2020
DOE recognition of GCU as a nonprofit would allow the school to receive federal student aid with few strings attached.
March 12, 2020
Most likely voters in Colorado want the government to provide Child Safety Accounts (CSAs), a survey reports.
March 11, 2020
A Child Safety Account (CSA) program would empower parents to determine when their child’s school is too dangerous and transfer them to a safe school immediately.
March 10, 2020
Editors Todd Zywicki, a law professor at George Mason University, and Neal McCluskey, director of Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom, have compiled contributions from many of the most original thinkers in the higher education reform movement.
March 9, 2020
Profiles of public school safety in each state are available from The Heartland Institute.
March 9, 2020
The Arizona Department of Education is erecting barriers to keep families out of the program, say parents.
March 9, 2020
Support for school choice has increased significantly in the past two years.
March 6, 2020
Formerly known as the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, EdChoice is the oldest school choice advocacy group in the nation.
March 5, 2020
In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, Kendra Espinoza and other parents are challenging a 2018 ruling by the Montana Supreme Court that the state’s tax credit scholarship program is unconstitutional.
March 5, 2020
Florida again leads the way by supporting a wide range of private and public school choices for families, a blossoming of freedom that DeSantis helped bolster as a top priority upon taking office in 2019.
March 3, 2020
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a bill allowing college athletes to sign endorsement deals and hire agents.
March 2, 2020
The truth is, literacy is fast being eradicated in the world, with or without literacy campaigns.
March 2, 2020
A California bill under consideration in the state legislature would require schoolchildren to learn that humans are causing dangerous climate change in order to graduate.
February 26, 2020
Child Safety Accounts: Combating Student Bullying and School Violence by Empowering Parents, by Heartland scholars Vicki Alger, Tim Benson, and Lennie Jarratt, lays out the plan for CSAs in every state.
February 19, 2020
OECD Report finds teenagers’ choices for an “ideal career” have narrowed over the past two decades and don’t reflect the new economy.
February 18, 2020
"The growth of this event serves as an indicator of the rising American interest in families having as free a choice among schools as they have when they pick out a pair of shoes at the mall. "
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