Soon after he took office in mid-January, Gov. Glenn Youngkin started to make good on his promises to Virginia parents by issuing an executive order forbidding mask mandates in schools. Predictably, this common-sense effort to dismantle the COVID powers of…
LGBTQ advocates, eager to evangelize kids into the ever-shifting world of gender ideology, are writing LGBTQ children’s books to bring the youth into the fold. So many LGBTQ children’s books have been written that it has emerged as a sub-genre…
One of the worst features of the pandemic has been the negative effect this ordeal is having on children. Obviously, the exceedingly rare cases of childhood fatality secondary to COVID have been nothing short of tragic. The measures that have…
Earlier this month, Mark Perna, a contributor to Forbes.com, published an article on the looming crisis in American education. Citing a recent study that revealed that 48 percent of teachers had considered quitting their jobs in November, he goes over…
As schools close down yet again in response to the most recent COVID surge, it’s time to have a serious talk about schools in America. This is not the time to dive into education statistics, or pen some screed against…
The 13 months that separate Trump’s anti-CRT executive order from Terry McAuliffe’s defeat in the recent Virginia gubernatorial race saw the harvesting of political fruit produced by an amazingly accelerated educational process. Across the steep political divide, a nation came…
The newest COVID variant — Omicron, Nu, Xi, Optimus Prime, whatever you want to call it — is younger than my current haircut. We still know so little about it. Nevertheless, out of a supposed abundance of caution, governments around…
When a school board in Long Beach, California, decided to build an all-sex locker room for a high school aquatic center at a cost of $23 million, it cavalierly informed parents after the fact. Parents were invited to comment, but…
Oumi built a school in Abidjan, her home town, last winter. The idea came to her when she realized that in the sprawling, crowded, poor yet lively borough she knew as a child, children might have running water and electricity…
