There is no question that the national push for educational freedom is really turning into a school choice revolution. As states across the country enact school choice programs for the…
Eighth graders across the country are struggling with U.S. history knowledge, as newly released 2022 assessment scores are back at the levels they were in the 1990s. Student performance on…
Discussing his new book and upcoming event next Wednesday in St. Paul, national school choice expert Corey DeAngelis joined the Jon Justice show Monday morning to discuss how government schools…
Studying and preserving factual history is essential to understanding ourselves and the world into which we were born. Committed to that work is the Dr. Harold C. Deutsch World War…
The cuts on college campuses just keep on coming. The next round of layoffs will hit Bemidji State University after classes wind up later this month, following a whopping 20…
I have written extensively about school choice and how it is all about ensuring students can access an effective, challenging, and motivating education in the learning environment that serves them…
On a bipartisan vote, the Minnesota Senate has protected an alternative pathway to teacher licensure and stopped a change to the state’s postsecondary enrollment options (PSEO) program that would have…
In 1983, a report by the United States National Commission on Excellence in Education sounded the alarm on the many failures in American education. Following the release of the report,…
Teacher licensure exams take up the ‘equity’ cause.
In an apparent attempt to confuse and mislead the public, Senate Democrat Leadership used last night’s floor debate on the omnibus education finance bill to vote both ways on language…
Dramatic declines in college admissions led the 2020 Minnesota Legislature to set a goal. The state looked to increase the number of financial aid applications (FAFSA) filed by high school…
The four-year graduation rate for Minnesota’s class of 2022 is up slightly from 2021, according to newly released data from the Minnesota Department of Education. At 83.55 percent, this is…
Minnesota’s new teacher licensing standards will require educators to ‘demonstrate’ ideological content.
The Minnesota House passed along party lines H.F. 2497, the 327-page omnibus education finance bill. The Senate recommended it for passage this morning, and a Monday vote is expected. The…
While nearly all parents agree that reading proficiency is important (97 percent) and the importance of their child developing a love of reading (90 percent), when choosing between the two…
Too often, critics of educational freedom will say that school choice programs are a detriment to public schools. But the case for school choice is overwhelming, and as I have…
Most Minnesotans likely know that taxes and abortion are major topics of debate at the State Capitol this session. But it’s a good bet fewer know that, out of the…
Questioning the inclusion of ideological agendas in K-12 education is not opposition to fact-based history, as teachers’ unions and activists claim. In fact, making such a claim is a distraction…
With over 55 percent of Minnesota K-12 students not able to do math at grade level and nearly five in 10 not able to read at grade level, as measured…
Several months ago, American Experiment highlighted the unusual case of a then-school board member who bucked his peers and urged Winona voters to reject a $94 million school referendum coming…
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) shows Mississippi beats Minnesota on post-COVID test score recovery. This adds to a trend of the Magnolia state…
Gov. Tim Walz’s Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) has published its Notice of Adoption for licensure rule changes that will require affected educators to demonstrate certain illiberal perspectives…
Parental concern over what books are made available to their children in school libraries is largely being framed by media and others on the left as “book banning,” “censorship,” or…
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that replacing salary scales based on experience and educational attainment with those based on evaluation scores resulted in…