education policy

The Foundation for Excellence in Education just released a new interactive website to all parents, students, legislators, activists, and anyone else interested in learning how proficient their state at educating its citizens. The website is aptly named WhyProficiencyMatters.com.

Nations tend to benefit to the degree their citizens fulfill their potential. When citizens develop their abilities, liberty tends to expand and moral behavior tends to be higher.

Most experts recognize that reward systems are especially valuable at the earliest ages to help students attain the habit of deferring gratification. Failure to develop this habit can handicap learners for the rest of their lives.

On Tuesday, May 13, the Northern Illinois Patriots , President Greg Clements, sponsored Dr.  Duke Pesta, Freedom Project Education Academy Director — an online school offering a complete classical education…

Common Core sounds innocent enough, but what it represents and how it is applied in teaching children from K – 12 can’t be ignored.

Common Core is sowing the seeds of socialism among our children.

Like The Onion®, “The Nation’s Finest New Source™,” The New York Times editorial page sometimes slides into self-parody but, Paul Krugman aside, its op-ed page is often worth reading. Such…

Indiana Schools Superintendent Tony Bennett is likely to win re-election this fall. But as he campaigns these last few weeks, Bennett would be wise to preempt a coming erosion in…

On today’s Heartland Daily Podcast … Is President Obama attempting to take over the nation’s schools? Renowned Obama scholar Stanley Kurtz (see his archive at National Review) joins Joy Pullmann to…

There’s nothing as satisfying as letting someone else say “I told you so” – instead of having to do it yourself.  So I will let Greg Forster, one of the…