The Center recently wrote about white privilege training Edina school bus drivers and custodians were forced to attend in 2012. The “training” program, led by Dr. Heather Hackman, focused on…
Instead of striving for academic excellence, jackboot methods are being used to force students to think “correctly” on social issues. This op-ed originally appeared October 7, 2017 in the Star…
We often hear that there is a labor shortage in Minnesota which we need immigrants to solve. But we can make a start by helping teenage and black Minnesotans into…
Despite education spending increases year after year, Minnesota remains home to one of the largest academic achievement gaps in the country. Not all students are getting the education they need…
Education excellence threatened by ideology in Edina Schools.
Zephyrus is “the official news site of Edina High School.” Students supply most of the content, but on November 22, 2016, 80 teachers–a remarkable number–signed an editorial addressed to the…
Obsessed with 'racial equality,' St. Paul Schools abandoned discipline - and unleashed mayhem.
Note: In recognition of School Choice Week we are reprinting this commentary by Center Founder Mitch Pearlstein, which appeared December 6, 1996 in the Pioneer Press. Mitch and American Experiment…
Interview: Scholar Heather Mac Donald on how Black Lives Matters activists have weakened policing in high-crime neighborhoods.
On Thursday (Dec. 8) American Experiment will host Heather Mac Donald, the premier crime expert in the nation for a special lunch forum on her new book: The War on…
On Monday (Oct. 24) Minneapolis City Council member Blong Yang responded to my earlier Star Tribune op-ed that discussed the council’s politically correct repeal of their lurking ordinance and the…
The new state jobs report is out and not surprisingly, it’s more of the same that Minnesotans have come to expect and accept. Last month Minnesota plodded along with an…
[Related News: Minneapolis Ranked 25th Most Dangerous City] Some unjustified police shootings, a dangerous narrative fomented by the Black Lives Matter movement, and a complicit media who slot everything into…
Heather Mac Donald is one of the nation’s truly brave and acute writers regarding criminal behavior and policing. Over a recent fifteen-day span she also, almost surely, was the most…
The Metropolitan Council never saw any human behavior it didn’t want to change. It wants to change the way we get from one place to another, where we live, and…
Following up on last week’s blog, the new one below again looks at a recently released national report aimed at “eliminating” – not just reducing but completely ending – child…
Very high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of young people are learning in school and holding them back in other…
The Indispensability of Competition and Choice in Minnesota K-12 Education | K-12 education in Minnesota faces many problems...