K-12
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ConstitutionEducationGovernmentLibertyPolitics
American K-12 science education gone bad
by David Wojick February 17, 2021American science education is transitioning and not in a good way.
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Education
Replace Common Core with Common Sense. (Yes, It Can Be Done)
by Robert Holland March 5, 2020Florida again leads the way by supporting a wide range of private and public school choices for families, a blossoming of freedom that DeSantis helped bolster as a top priority upon taking office in 2019.
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EducationFeatured
Ed-Schools and Multiculturalists Exhibit Burnin’ Love for Leftist Indoctrination
by Robert Holland May 8, 2019One of the criticisms teachers unions and other government-schooling factotums level against private schools that accept voucher students is that in many cases they hire teachers who are not state-certified or licensed.
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EducationFeatured
Uneducated: Why American Education Is Fundamentally Flawed
by Liam Sigler January 8, 2019Mediocrity has become normalized and institutionalized.
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Education
America’s Kids Need Sleep And Time To Play To Avoid Mental Health Problem
by Robert Holland April 5, 2018As debate rages over possible ways to curb school shootings such the one that occurred recently in Parkland, Florida, increased attention to the mental well-being of young people often pops up as a recommended priority.
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EducationFeatured
Would Revived Civics End Up Being Progressive Ed Redux?
by Robert Holland November 19, 2017The good news is that civics education, which teaches children the basics of good citizenship, is quickly gaining fans after being dormant for decades.
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Education
Heartland’s Joy Pullmann on Stossel: Think Education is Expensive Now? Wait Until It’s Free
by Jim Lakely October 10, 2016“If we want to reduce college costs, what we should do is get the federal government out of the college game.”
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EducationFeatured
Honest School Information Crucial for School Choice
by David Anderson February 16, 2016Supporters of education reform who advocate for government-funded choice mechanisms, such as vouchers, tend to argue the problems in K–12 schools in the United States are primarily economic matters, not pedagogical. This view is validated by much data, but the concept ought to be extended further to say the economic marketplace in which K–12 education operates needs more than vouchers to become as efficient as it needs to be to deliver a quality education to each and every child.