Schools are implementing social-emotional learning strategies at breakneck speeds. But are social-emotional learning standards and their interference in “interpersonal and behavioral skills” really as innocent and “nurturing” as the educational elite would have us believe?

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John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #93 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the John Locke Foundation, the Reason Foundation, the Platte Institute, and the Alaska Policy Forum.

For the record, The Heartland Institute has contacted nearly all members of the Trump cabinet. Can any of you explain to me how this differs from the relationship the previous administration had with liberal advocacy groups?

Blaine amendments, borne out of 19th-century anti-Catholic bigotry, have been the constant bane of the modern education-choice movement.

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Image courtesy of HSLDA The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) met with Betsy DeVos, secretary of education, to discuss federal law from the homeschool perspective. HSLDA and DeVos discussed discrimination…

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The wise and prudent thing to do would be to err on the side of the protection of the non-governmental and the maintenance of what a sage in our sister Commonwealth of Virginia once described as a “wall of separation” — in this instance between the “public” and the “private”.

In the land of the free, surely choice eventually will triumph over the dreary imposed sameness of a Common Core.

In New Hampshire, it’s déjà vu all over again.

If a state offers a grant program, do its officials violate the Constitution if they reject a church preschool’s application due to the state’s longstanding ban on all aid, direct or indirect, to religiously affiliated organizations?

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #88 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from EdChoice, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and the Tax Foundation.