homeschooling

Roughly one in every 50 public school students in the United States was a victim of a physical assault, sexual assault, rape, attempted rape, robbery, or threatened with physical assault at school during the 2015–16 school year.

Parents and their children can be the big winners once freed from statist baby-sitting controls.

Are you looking for a great holiday gift for young patriots? The kid-friendly Constitution, created by the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness, is on sale in Heartland’s online store.…

Washington should spare school choice its suffocating embrace.

Winter has officially come, and children across the country will spend the next few months stuck in classrooms, gazing longingly out the window while they eagerly wait for spring break.

On this Thanksgiving, let’s be thankful the school choice movement is continuing to expand, and freedom along with it.

As the presidential election looms, The Economist considers whether the next president will use “the regulatory power of the federal government to spur reform” in education policy—as both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama did—and if he or she does, how that will be accomplished.

It’s been a frustrating year for school reformers seeking to break the death grip teachers’ unions hold on public education.

More than a few parents active in the fight to end Common Core’s suffocating grip on elementary and secondary education are targeting privatization as their enemy. They object to corporate groups seeking to redefine education as workforce preparation and to vendors hawking instructional materials for a curriculum most parents and many teachers do not favor.

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as Bruno Behrend, Heartland Senior Fellow for education policy, speaks in front of the Great Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. He discusses Education Choice and How Homeschooling is blazing the trail.

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Lennie Jarratt, project manager for education at The Heartland Institute joins host Donald Kendal to talk about a newly proposed bill that would treat homeschoolers like a private school, allowing them to receive federal money.