Why Academic Achievement Matters
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.
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Rewards in Elementary Schools
Well-designed and carefully implemented reward systems can improve student achievement in elementary schools. While young children are often intrinsically motivated, they benefit when their accomplishments, however small, are pointed out by parents and teachers and appropriately rewarded.
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To Reward or Not to Reward: Motivating Students to Learn
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.
Thorner: Chilling Truth Behind Common Core State Standards
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[…]
First Obamacare, Now Obamacore – Part 1: Common Core Sows Seeds of Socialism in Young
Common Core is sowing the seeds of socialism among our children.
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Joy Pullmann on FreedomWorks Common Core Conference Call
Heartland’s Joy Pullmann has established a reputation as one of the nation’s most knowledgeable experts on the Common Core education standards. Listen to her talk about Common Core on a FreedomWorks conference call.
All the News That Fits We Print: Some Thoughts on Education
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 Needs a Debate on Common Core Education Standards
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[…]
Stop City Intrusion into Pre-K in San Antonio
[First published in the San Antonio Express-News.] With the reassignment of his chief of staff to the Pre-K 4 SA campaign, Mayor Julián Castro has obviously learned about the collapse of public[…]
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Heartland Daily Podcast: Stanley Kurtz on Obama’s Education Takeover
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[…]
Education · Liberty · Regulation
Centralization Conquers Common Core Standards – What a Shocker
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[…]
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