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May 11, 2022
Vergara: Ten Years In The Rearview
It has been a decade since the landmark Vergara lawsuit was filed, and its denial in the courts has led to ongoing failure in California schools.
Education
May 9, 2022
Don’t Buy into SEL!
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) was always a bad idea, and now that it is politicized, it’s a nightmare.
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May 9, 2022
7th Grade Science Should Not Include Climate Indoctrination
The newly published alarmist lessons have yet to go into effect. We must try to stop them wherever possible.
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May 3, 2022
Are Private Sector Unions Passé?
Union membership is way down, and their collective future is not rosy.
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April 25, 2022
The Sandstorm: Joe Biden: Teacher Union Toady
At the behest of the teachers unions, the president is trying to cripple, if not eliminate, charter schools.
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April 14, 2022
The Sandstorm: TK Is Not Okay
In California, parents are abandoning the k-12 system, college enrollment is down, and now the state is trying to lure 4-year-olds to transitional kindergarten.

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Education
August 10, 2021
The Sandstorm: The Hundred-Year Road To CRT
By Larry Sand
A brief look at the progressive agenda in education reveals that Critical Race Theory is just the latest in a long series of attempts to deform and ultimately fracture the country.
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August 3, 2021
The Annual Teacher Shortage Canard
By Larry Sand
The bogus claim that America is short on teachers is with us, yet again.
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July 27, 2021
Defective Bargaining
By Larry Sand
A challenger for governor of California could radically improve education with one executive order.
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July 20, 2021
Masking Students and Unmasking the Radical Agenda
By Larry Sand
The decision to mask and indoctrinate school children in California has been left to local school districts.
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July 13, 2021
Confronting Randi’s Twaddle
By Larry Sand
After insisting that Critical Race Theory is not being taught in k-12 schools, Randi Weingarten – teacher union boss and gaslighter extraordinaire – has ceded any right to be taken seriously.
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July 7, 2021
“Race Manners” Reinforce a Harmful Race Conscious
By Richard Ebeling
Over the last year, unmarked graves of hundreds of children of indigenous tribes have been uncovered in various locations in Canada.
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July 6, 2021
Decolonizing the Curriculum, Confronting White Nationalism and Combatting Period Poverty
By Larry Sand
At its yearly convention, the National Education Association advanced its political agenda, while doing nothing to address America’s failing public schools.
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July 6, 2021
The Homeschooling Surge
By Daniel Sutter
Economists’ interest in aggregate statistics impairs our understanding the attraction of homeschooling.
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July 2, 2021
The NCAA Cartel is Collapsing
By Daniel Sutter
Competition drives efficiency in our economy. The NCAA cartel has restricted competition.
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June 29, 2021
Major Education Realignment in the Works?
By Larry Sand
If nothing else, the pandemic has drawn back the curtain and exposed the wizard, revealing the truth about public schools.
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June 22, 2021
Canceling Critical Race Theory
By Larry Sand
As states pass laws disallowing the teaching of the bogus and downright harmful Critical Race Theory, its proponents erroneously claim they are being censored.
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June 15, 2021
LAUSD to Open Schools Amid Much Controversy
By Larry Sand
After failing its students miserably and beset with litigation, the misbegotten Los Angeles school district is now being accused of systemic racism.
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June 14, 2021
Bonkers on the Bay
By Larry Sand
Educational leadership in San Francisco has all the gravity of a Marx Brothers film.
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June 8, 2021
UTLA Representatives Endorse BDS Movement
By Larry Sand
L.A. teachers union joins their brethren in S.F. to denounce Israel.
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May 26, 2021
CRT: Critical Race Theory or Crazy Radical Tantrums?
By Larry Sand
Whatever you call it, there’s a culture war being waged, and the citizenry is fighting back.
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May 11, 2021
Science With the Union Label
By Larry Sand
Despite the reopening happy talk, more than half of all California’s k-12 students remain in distance learning.
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May 5, 2021
The Immense Education “Investment” Fraud
By Larry Sand
Unprecedented federal spending on education is a swindle of epic proportions.
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April 27, 2021
Awakening to Woke
By Larry Sand
The mainstreaming of Marxism is meeting resistance from anti-woke warriors, but more people must lose their fear and fight back.
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April 20, 2021
Los Angeles Schools Kowtow to Union Demands
By Larry Sand
Children in L.A. are suffering at the hands of the school district and its “labor partner.”
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April 13, 2021
Child Abuse in Plain Sight
By Larry Sand
Forcing Critical Race Theory on children is psychologically damaging.
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April 6, 2021
Educational Freedom Is on the Move
By Larry Sand
School choice is rapidly advancing across the U.S.
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March 30, 2021
The Looming Nightmare
By Larry Sand
The ongoing Covid lockdown hysteria is taking a brutal toll on the young.
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March 19, 2021
What School Shutdowns Have Wrought
By Larry Sand
Parents are exploring new educational options for a post-pandemic America.
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March 17, 2021
California’s Draft Ethnic Studies Curriculum Still Isn’t Right
By Larry Sand & Lia Rensin
Victimhood is not a static state and our children should be encouraged to look beyond the past into a brighter tomorrow.
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March 10, 2021
Why Johnny Isn’t Learning Real History Anymore In Massachusetts
By Sandra Stotsky
Where once American history courses focused on our country’s founding principles, soon such courses started to emphasize political activism and the grievances of various subgroups in American society.
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March 2, 2021
Opposition Is Rising to Teacher Union-Mandated Shutdowns
By Larry Sand
Refusing to accept responsibility for Covid-related lockdowns, the American Federation of Teachers tars Republicans.
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February 23, 2021
Equity = Inequality, Discrimination and Mediocrity
By Larry Sand
The fixation on equity is a loser for all concerned
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February 17, 2021
Elite Private Schools Go Woke
By Larry Sand
Some parents are paying $50,000 a year for their kids to be indoctrinated.
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February 17, 2021
American K-12 science education gone bad
By David Wojick
American science education is transitioning and not in a good way.
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February 9, 2021
The Wacky Woke Pandemic
By Larry Sand
The resegregation, victimization and historical manipulation of America is advancing.
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February 2, 2021
Child Suicide, Covid, and the Unions
By Larry Sand
The teachers unions’ resistance to opening schools is killing kids…literally
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January 26, 2021
Unity or Union Fealty?
By Larry Sand
President Biden calls for national unity, but his words ring hollow.
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January 19, 2021
The No Education Association
By Larry Sand
As the teachers unions buttress their roadblocks to reopening schools, parental choice is more important than ever
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January 12, 2021
Spirit Murder, Lizard Brains and the Abolition of Whiteness
By Larry Sand
In what amounts to a “1984 Project,” school districts across the country have turned into reeducation camps
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January 5, 2021
Sophist’s Choice
By Larry Sand
Diane Ravitch’s arguments against school choice miss the mark by miles
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December 22, 2020
Teachable Union Moments
By Larry Sand
Several recent stories about teachers unions can be used for classroom instruction.
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December 15, 2020
Should “performance-based” tests be mandated?*
By Sandra Stotsky
Many educators who think they are “reformers” would like performance-based tests
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December 8, 2020
Monopoly Games
By Larry Sand
With a Biden presidency looming, charter schools are once again under attack
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December 4, 2020
Growth of the Pod
By Larry Sand
The public education establishment is losing customers as more parents take charge of how their kids learn amid the pandemic.
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December 1, 2020
Science or Science Fiction?
By Larry Sand
Teacher union leader claims we should follow the science, but then she ignores it
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