Long after students have returned to in-person learning, grim headlines still depict the educational hit that students took during the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, a Stanford economist recently predicted that the learning loss for students whose schools shifted to virtual…
If finances are the top concern of public school officials beset with low state test scores, they should be on board with scholarship proposals that enable students to attend private schools while reducing taxpayer costs — like the one just…
The recent National Assessment of Educational Progress scores show that schools are failing at their most basic task. Math and reading proficiency is in a pattern of steep decline — down 4 points in reading and 9 in math —…
Parents want to believe that their kids are thriving in school. But new research reveals that parents are often deceived when they are told that their children are performing satisfactorily. The study, conducted this year by the educational nonprofit Learning…
“Hopefully I don’t get fired for this,” a South Carolina teacher allegedly told her students as she prepared to show them two short videos on critical race theory (CRT) this spring. Mary Wood has not been fired, but the Lexington-Richland…
The chancellor of New York City Schools, David C. Banks, announced a dramatic overhaul of the city’s reading curricula on Tuesday. He admitted that the current system, which is based on progressive ideas of “whole language” instruction, is “fundamentally flawed”…
Oklahoma is currently considering whether to approve the nation’s first charter school that would “teach religion as the truth of the matter.” On Dec. 1, 2022, former state Attorney General John M. O’Connor issued an opinion declaring that Oklahoma’s ban…
Throughout the past several weeks, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona has been making the rounds speaking in defense of public education. However, Cardona isn’t really focused on education so much as on the potential political gains available — especially in…
A 12-year-old student was allegedly sent home from Nichols Middle School for wearing a shirt that read: “There are only two genders.” That’s right. His shirt featured a statement of what was a well-known fact for thousands of years of…
