As more and more studies demonstrate the devastating impact of school closures on children — including the toll on children’s physical and mental well-being as well as learning loss — new revelations are shedding light on the tactics one school…
It’s almost the weekend, and time for another bite at the 5QT apple. Starting with the media wars in the Big Apple. 1. Welcome to reality, New York Times! It only took a year and a half, but now that…
Washington — As I wrote many years ago, when an entity falls under the control of liberalism it eventually loses all sense of what its purpose was to begin with. The entity can be as small as a schoolroom or…
If there’s one group the education establishment wants to stop, it is parents, many of them Asians, who push their students to excel. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, is the best high school in…
There has been an enormous backlash to the 1619 Project, causing it to be banned from public school curriculums in Florida and Texas. But the purveyors of the 1619 Project’s false history, namely the nonprofit Pulitzer Center, which first devised…
Have you heard that there’s a “national teacher shortage” in our public schools across the country? Well, apparently it’s a real thing. We know this because CBS News tells us so: The Department of Education reports a general shortage of teachers in…
I am rapidly racing towards eternity. It’s astounding how fast time has flown by. It seems like yesterday that I was in elementary school planting bushes and trees and pledging allegiance and feeling unbelievably blessed that I was in the…
Really, as one thinks about it, could it be any other way? If you take kids from age 7 or 10, and you don’t give them Chumash (Torah studies) or meaningful real Shabbat (Sabbath) or a kosher home or meaningful…
The New York Times is concerned about censorship in American schools. “Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S.” reads Sunday’s headline. “Parents, activists, school board officials and lawmakers around the country are challenging books at a pace not seen in…
