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Budgets/TaxesHealth Care
Americans Can’t do Math, But Policymakers Can and This Could Vaporize Tobacco Harm Reduction
by Lindsey Stroud September 17, 2019It should come as no big surprise that Americans are not the world’s best mathematicians.
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Two bills that would have deeply wounded the popular schools of choice are dead…for now.
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Education
The Miseducation of Our Children Should be of Great Concern
by Nancy Thorner April 16, 2018Our public schools went through a significant change during the Obama years, a change that was met with an unusual amount of criticism from the public, parents, and concerned education professionals.
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EducationFeatured
Massachusetts Becomes Dumber So the Rest of Us Can Be Smarter
by Robert Holland February 14, 2018It is not likely that even an exhaustive review of commentary on education in 2017 could turn up quotes compelling enough to qualify as classic nuggets of wisdom.
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Education
If Teachers Unions Are So Great, Why Aren’t Our Schools?
by Teresa Mull September 13, 2017At least on Labor Day the damage they can do is limited.
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Education
ESAs Would Help ‘the Land of Opportunity’ Live Up to Its Name
by Timothy Benson March 7, 2017The education-choice movement is based on a simple proposition: Parents should be given options for their child’s education. No longer should a child’s schooling be determined solely by ZIP code and the whim of circumstance.
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In the wake of Native American Indian Heritage Month, Sen. McCain’s bill is just the thing.
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EducationFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Lennie Jarratt: Nation’s Report Card Shows Falling Education Scores
by Lennie Jarratt May 19, 2016In today’s edition of the Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as Lennie Jarratt, project manager for education at The Heartland Institute, joins the Morning News Watch Radio Show to talk about the nation’s falling scores on the NAEP test – more commonly referred to as the Nation’s Report Card.
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EducationFeatured
Author Peter W. Wood Proclaims ‘Common Core is Dead’
by Nancy Thorner April 12, 2016As part of The Heartland Institute’s continuing series of book and movie events, specifically designed to showcase freedom, the book, “Drilling through the Core”, edited with an introduction by Peter W. Wood, was presented by the author on Wednesday, April 6 in the newly named Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center, located at Heartland’s Arlington Heights facility, 3939 North Wilke Road, Arlington Heights, IL 60004.
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EducationFeatured
Thanks to Teacher’s Union, Chicago Public Schools are a Perpetual-Motion Machine of Mediocrity
by Timothy Benson January 19, 2016The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has voted overwhelmingly to go on strike during the 2016 spring semester, with a walk-out tentatively scheduled for late March. This would be the second teachers strike in the Windy City over the past four years and would serve as a glaring reminder shame has been fully expunged from civil society.