Efforts to politicize K-12 public education and turn classrooms into ideological battlegrounds have dominated headlines over the past two years, as school closures and distance learning gave parents a peek…
The manifestation of Critical Race Theory’s framework in K-12 classrooms has jumped to the forefront of education debates seemingly overnight. But the divisive principles and tenets of this 40-year-old academic…
A healthy parent-teacher relationship is important. With a new school year just around the corner, parents may be wondering how to advocate for their children while fostering a constructive partnership…
The pandemic may be behind us, but its ripple effects will be felt for years in public schools. Like most states, Minnesota’s public schools experienced a sizable loss of students…
In fall 2020, public school enrollment fell 2.5 percent — over 1 in 40 students, according to an enrollment tracker published by the American Enterprise Institute. Districts that spent the…
Over 30,000 Minneapolis students have been shut out of their classrooms for five days now, as the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers went on strike on March 10. The union and…
I recently wrote about the 2022 Minnesota Student Survey provided by the state Department of Education that asks students inappropriate and personal questions about gender, sex, alcohol and drug abuse,…
This article was written by Benjamin Zycher, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and it appeared in RealClear Energy. News reports last month about a traffic accident involving former California…
March 2021 saw the passage of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP). At the time, the Biden administration touted a study by Moody’s Analytics, which: “…projects that the President’s…
There are numerous reasons why the Build Back Better plan should not be passed. When it comes to childcare, the plan will raise costs, discourage work and marriage, and most…
EdChoice’s “2021 Schooling in America” survey gives insight into parents’ reasons for choosing a school. The survey polled a national sample of parents from June 14-July 8, 2021 and asked…
Governor Walz’s expectation that all k-12 students be offered “some form of in-person learning” by March 8 wasn’t quite met. According to the Minnesota Department of Education, about nine percent…
President Biden remarked in January that his administration is “letting science speak again.” But with Biden’s team recently walking back his pledge to reopen a “majority” of schools by the…
It’s a simple fact that income levels in most low-cost states cannot support a $15 minimum wage.
Teachers' unions continue to push back against school reopening efforts in the name of safety concerns, despite ever-growing research that schools are not super-spreaders and that school closures harm children.…
A recent report by the American Enterprise Institute, "Still Left Behind: How America's Schools Keep Failing Our Children," shows, among other things, that large proportions of lower-income eighth graders in…
I have written extensively on how COVID-19 has changed the education landscape and has revealed to parents the shortcomings of a top-down education system, leading many to seek out alternative…
It is safe to say that the coronavirus pandemic might offset some of the gains that the country has made. But regardless of that, the Census Bureau numbers point to…
Despite the science supporting in-person learning, many schools—under pressure from teachers' unions—will begin the school year online. But the costs of closed schools are great. Not only will continued school closures…
In true teachers' union fashion, the American Federation of Teachers' convention was ideologically driven and focused on non-educational policy. In fact, the union's political agenda includes policy ideas that "are…
As we continue to wait for school reopening plans to unfold, school leaders across the country and the national teachers' union are repeating an all-to-familiar call for increased education spending,…
Schools around the world are already back to school, even in European nations that had higher fatality rates from COVID-19 than the U.S.
According to a national survey by the University of Southern California, there is still concern among some parents that their child won’t be prepared for the next school year. When…
From stricter school discipline policies to shifting perceptions on teacher salary increases, the opinions of the general public are getting less attention from presidential candidates than they deserve.