Director of the Center for Education Opportunities at The Heartland Institute
Jarratt is the former managing editor of Champion News, an Illinois based news website focused on reporting on Education and Illinois Politics, and former managing editor of Education Matters. Jarratt has presented analysis on Common Core, School Choice analysis on Fox News, Breitbart, ABC Chicago and multiple radio outlets and newspapers across Illinois.
Latest posts by Lennie Jarratt (see all)
- Child Safety Accounts: A State by State Analysis - January 30, 2020
- Democrat Governor Wants To Strip School Choice Lifeline From Tens Of Thousands Of Needy Kids - June 13, 2019
- Improving Student Safety 20 Years After Columbine - May 8, 2019
In today’s edition of the Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as project manager for Lennie Jarratt speaks before the Illinois Christian Home Educators Conference in Naperville, Illinois. Jarratt was there to talk about Common Core and its effects on Homeschooling.
In the presentation, Jarratt discusses how Common Core drives the curriculum, how it involves excessive testing, and how the related data collection is invasive. He explains how Common Core originated and why it should be opposed. He covers the current efforts to repeal the program and the education bureaucracies efforts to simply rename and rebrand it.
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