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Parents, Declare Your Education Independence
On July 4, 1776, American colonists declared their independence from a distant monarchy in Great Britain that had passed mandate after mandate without input from the people over which it ruled. Today,...
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The ACLU is Anti-Patient and Anti-Student
In April 2015, Nevada implemented the nation’s first universal education savings account (ESA) program, which is designed to allow parents to use some or all of the funding that would go toward their...
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Hillary Loves Teachers, Not Students
Hillary Clinton took pandering to a new level when she addressed delegates to the National Education Association’s (NEA) convention on July 5. On the same day FBI Director James Comey was exposing Mrs....
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Education Policymakers Should Consider Kids’ Happiness by Giving Parents More...
Winter has officially come, and children across the country will spend the next few months stuck in classrooms, gazing longingly out the window while they eagerly wait for spring break. Those kids...
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Want to Reform Education? Break Up the Public School Monopoly
How much proof of its effectiveness does school choice need to show before it finally takes hold? The answer should be “none”; parents and children ought to be free to choose whatever education system...
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The Left’s Failing, False Narrative On School Choice
Last month, more than six million people across the nation rallied, danced, and wore colorful scarves at 21,000 events celebrating National School Choice Week. President Donald Trump himself made a...
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Conservative University Students Face Unprecedented Bias
Many parents are in the process of visiting schools with their college-bound children trying to decide which one is a good fit. It is an exciting time, but also can be quite discouraging. Parents...
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Common Core or Freedom of Choice: Which Will Prevail?
If you have kids in school or you teach schoolchildren, you must remember those halcyon days of 2008, when the idea of a Common Core (CC) to direct and track all American children along educational...
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Key Women Educators Discuss America’s Learning Climate at Heartland Institute
Education is in need of strong and capable leaders. On Wednesday, May 24, the Heartland Institute presented a discussion with four such leaders in its Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center. The event, Women...
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Compulsory School Attendance: Compassionate or Counterproductive?
Earlier this month, an Arizona state legislator did the unthinkable: He proposed returning power to the people by repealing compulsory school attendance laws. Compulsory education requirements have...
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Parents, What You Don’t Know Is Hurting Your Kids
Second graders in a California public school are having their “interpersonal and behavioral skills [nurtured] through a variety of educational strategies,” Education Week reports. “In Susannah Young’s...
View ArticleHeidi Holan: Parental Rights Amendment
Heidi Holan, Illinois state director of ParentalRights.org, discussed details on what the Parental Rights Amendment says, what it does, and the background of court cases which makes it necessary to be...
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Should Report Cards Impersonally Judge Students’ Personal Qualities?
When they have the power to do so, parents choose a child’s school on the basis of such varied criteria as safety, discipline, moral values, curriculum, and the availability of extracurricular...
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Homeschoolers Don’t Need Federal Help
For the first time in the 38-year history of the U.S. Department of Education, the secretary of Education recently hosted a delegation of homeschooling advocates and legal defenders. The cordial nature...
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Summer Is the Perfect Time to Practice Parent-Centered Education
In most parts of the United States, “School’s out for summer!” Commercials on television and radio have started advertising waterparks and other nearby amusements, repeating promises for “keeping your...
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Society Is Not a Family, Government Is Not a Parent
Few things are as clear as the bankruptcy of the political “left.” Ranting and raving about Donald Trump and “anti-democratic” trends in the United States and other parts of the world, their own vision...
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Treating Teachers as Normal Employees Benefits Children
The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) has been treating its teachers as though they are normal, private-sector employees, and it’s paying off for students. “Since 2012, we have been studying...
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Environmentalists Know How Many Kids You Have — Too Many
Hey Neanderthals, time for some real talk: You’re killing the earth. And not because you refuse to drive hybrids, go vegan, or chunk out $20,000 to put some solar panels on your roof. No, it’s because...
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Social Engineering – Transferring Parental Control of Children to Teachers
Children in our public schools are being pummeled with political correctness. Specific assignments and class discussions are designed purposely to promote specific political viewpoints which may...
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Are Parents to Blame for Distressed State of American Youth?
We read about teenage killers, we acquiesce to college students by establishing free speech “Safe zones” lest feelings are bruised by politically-incorrect opinions elsewhere, we hear about high-school...
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