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Education
Homeschool Monthly #16: We The Students Scholarship Essay Contest
by Lennie Jarratt September 28, 2017The Bill of Rights Institute is sponsoring the We The Students Scholarship Essay Contest. The topic is “To what extent in the U.S. does the government – federal, state, or…
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedHealth CarePodcast
In The Tank (ep72) – Trump’s Inauguration, Cigarette Black Market, and the Obamacare Replacement Act
by Donald Kendal January 20, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #72 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Tax Foundation and the Heartland Institute.
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Education
Emmanuel Uses Charter Children as Bargaining Chip to Placate Teachers Union
by Timothy Benson October 24, 2016The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Chicago Public Schools (CPS), and Mayor Rahm Emmanuel’s administration reached a tentative agreement to avert what would have been the second teachers strike in Chicago in four years.
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Education
Homeschool Monthly #4: Obama’s Education Secretary Wrong About Homeschoolers
by Lennie Jarratt September 27, 2016Stories included in this edition of Homeschool Monthly are from School Reform News, School Choice Weekly, Freedom Pub, and several other sources.
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Education
Homeschool Monthly #2: Homeschoolers Outperform Other Students on SAT
by Lennie Jarratt July 28, 2016There has been a downward trend in average SAT scores since 1972. Homeschool students, however, currently score higher than traditional school students and, in fact, have higher scores than the…
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Welcome to the inaugural issue of Homeschool Monthly. I want to thank you for keeping up-to-date on developments that could affect your efforts and right to homeschool. I enjoyed meeting each of you at recent homeschool conventions and learning why you choose to homeschool your children.
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FeaturedInternet/TelecomLiberty
FTC Should Have Priority Over Internet Privacy
by Bartlett Cleland June 9, 2016Recently, the Federal Communications Commission has proposed to construct a new, additional regulatory apparatus, asserting, without any factual support, that creating untested and discriminatory rules for internet service providers (ISPs) will be the silver bullet for protecting consumers’ privacy.
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FeaturedHealth CarePodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Dr. Meg Edison: Surrendering Board Certification to Increase Patient Care
by Michael Hamilton June 8, 2016Meet a pediatrician who voluntarily surrendered her board certification in order to protest extortion of physicians by the American Board of Medical Specialties, provide better care for her patients, and influence lawmakers to act.
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That was not what the power elites intended when they concocted standards and assessments intended to apply to all students, teachers, and schools. Their objective was centralization. But their arrogance has activated a hornets’ nest of angry parents intent on reclaiming control over their children’s schooling.
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EducationFeatured
Author Peter W. Wood Proclaims ‘Common Core is Dead’
by Nancy Thorner April 12, 2016As part of The Heartland Institute’s continuing series of book and movie events, specifically designed to showcase freedom, the book, “Drilling through the Core”, edited with an introduction by Peter W. Wood, was presented by the author on Wednesday, April 6 in the newly named Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center, located at Heartland’s Arlington Heights facility, 3939 North Wilke Road, Arlington Heights, IL 60004.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Adrian Moore: Flint Water Crisis and the Endangered Species Act
by H. Sterling Burnett February 29, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Adrian Moore, vice-president of policy at the Reason Foundation, joins Host H. Sterling Burnett to talk about two issues Moore has recently researched – the Flint water crisis and the Endangered Species Act.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Taxed Enough Already (TEA): Let’s Not Find New and Exciting Ways to Tax the Internet
by Seton Motley January 27, 2016The federal government each year now takes from us record tallies of tax dollars. Yet the Feds have accrued nearly $19 trillion in debt – and that ridiculous number keeps hurtling skyward.
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FeaturedHealth Care
Elder Justice Act Under Obamacare Fails Seniors – Part 1
by Nancy Thorner July 8, 2015A few weeks ago, Tom Field, a 25-year advocate of legal reforms as they apply to the elderly, reached out to Nancy Thorner via a phone call from Mentor, Ohio, to ascertain whether Thorner had further interest in pursuing the issue after reading an article emailed to him and others that Thorner had written on July 9, 2011 titled, “Allegations of Alleged Corruption and Abuse at the Probate Court Level in Cook County, IL.”