The debate over how much fraud has been committed against Minnesota social welfare programs has now gone national. Joe Thompson, the First Assistant U.S. Attorney and lead prosector of the…
As test score results continue to be quiet reminders of the millions of students who fell behind or dropped out entirely during years of disrupted learning, new research out of…
Author, journalist, gubernatorial candidate, and California resident Michael Shellenberger has been a fearless voice exposing the policy mistakes made in the Golden State regarding crime, homelessness, environmental alarmism, and leadership.…
There’s a new, disturbing epidemic sweeping through Minnesota. It has shown up on the government radar, infecting state agency social benefit programs and siphoning taxpayer money by the millions: fraud.…
High school seniors continue to struggle with literacy and numeracy, as revealed by historic declines in reading and math scores on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Administered…
Since 2019, Minnesota has had a former educator in the governor’s office — an “Educator-in-Chief,” as nicknamed by Tim Walz himself and his teachers’ union Education Minnesota. “Thank you to…
Does the American education system provide students enough instructional time to keep them competitive against their peers worldwide? It’s a question policymakers have argued over for decades. In terms of…
More schools and students will be negatively impacted if Gov. Tim Walz’s proposed education cuts for the next biennium get incorporated into the Minnesota Legislature’s state budget. (I previously wrote…
A new film tells the story of America’s miraculous founding and the civic responsibility we all carry. “A republic, if you can keep it.” Benjamin Franklin spoke those words in…
A serious look behind our state’s average achievement scores shows we aren’t doing as well as we like to think we are. Comparing Minnesota’s average reading and math performance on…
The nationwide release of fourth- and eighth-grade student performance in reading and math has been set for Jan. 29, 2025, as announced by the National Assessment Governing Board of the…
Back in 1973, when Time magazine ran a story titled “The Good Life in Minnesota” and put our state’s governor, Wendell Anderson, on the cover, the article stated: “Politics is almost…
Photo from the U.S. Department of Education via Flickr (licensed under CC BY 2.0) School closure policies aggressively lobbied for by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and specifically AFT…
The Minnesota Reformer recently ran an article showing some of the ways the state has changed since Gov. Tim Walz took office in January 2019. Reporter Christopher Ingraham used a…
Not according to a new poll of likely voters and parents, reports Chalkboard News. The Voters Voice Poll conducted by Noble Predictive Insights in July found that over two-thirds (68…
In many circles, chronic absenteeism has emerged as one of the biggest problems facing schools right now. As I wrote here, Minnesota’s chronic absenteeism rate has more than doubled since…
Declines in reading and math achievement have contributed to Minnesota’s national education ranking falling once again, coming in at #19, according to a new report by the Annie E. Casey…
Perhaps another headline about a drop in academic test scores doesn’t faze you anymore, but the projected impact lost learning will have on students over their lifetimes is nothing to…
Matt Taibbi’s speech at American Experiment’s Fall Briefing warns about government censorship.
I’ve previously written how Minnesota performance on national tests is the worst in 30 years, but what does that mean for the impacted students’ futures? Lower skills, and therefore future…
Journalist Matt Taibbi tells John Hinderaker why the First Amendment is under threat from Big Government and Big Tech.
Stanford economist Eric Hanushek has predicted that academic setbacks during COVID-19 could cost each impacted student $70,000 over the course of their careers, or roughly $28 trillion total, reports The…
Over the course of 15 years of studies, charter school students have gone from lagging their traditional public school peers in both math and reading to outperforming them. Starting in…
As the class of 2023 prepares for the momentous occasion of high school graduation, many will unfortunately be completing their K-12 journey without sound academic knowledge and skills. According to…