On average, students across the country know little about American history “and even less about the world,” write Frederick Hess and Mathew Levey with the American Enterprise Institute. This struggle…
With a new school year just around the corner, and given the tumultuous past couple of school years, it is important for parents and teachers to focus on cultivating a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Instead of calling for K-12 spending increases that state governments can't afford, school leaders should rethink how their dollars are being spent and look into ways to spend smarter.
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.
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.
The way the teacher pay debate has been framed misses the mark.
A person’s ability to enter the workforce and access a successful career path should not be determined solely by the presence or lack of a four-year degree. Degree inflation is…
No matter how it is framed, the most recent scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress paint a troubling picture of reading achievement in the country. One possible culprit:…
School funding debates have led to several pretty costly spending proposals from the 2020 presidential candidate pool. There are three big concerns Americans need to consider before they jump on…
Center of the American Experiment kicked-off our ongoing project “Great Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree” about three years ago. It would be inaccurate to say we had the issue to…
An American Enterprise Institute report examines the heightened interest in career and technical education and its long-running notability compared to other education reform efforts such as No Child Left Behind,…
The Indispensability of Competition and Choice in Minnesota K-12 Education | K-12 education in Minnesota faces many problems...