Teachers

Starting a company from scratch that’s able to compete with the long-entrenched SAT and ACT in the college-entrance testing business sounds like an impossible dream.

The ESA is the latest innovation in choice, and quite likely the most promising for bringing about enduring reform of K–12 education.

Dr. Duke Pesta’s experiences as an educational reformer, university professor, high school teacher, and the administrator of an online home school curriculum uniquely qualify him to address the current state of education in our country.

If only I had a dime for every time I have heard the claim America needs to spend more money on education.

Some of the more zealous partisans of tax-funded schooling have resorted to a curious (and dubious) claim: “America’s Founders are on our side.”

Even though most studies using the highest quality of research show that underprivileged children benefit academically when able to use vouchers to attend private schools, the political and educationist Left use any scrap of data.

Mistakes are often the best teacher, as they force us to revisit a problem and consider how it can be improved.

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

Our 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.

As 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.

Our country will not long endure if adults continue to forfeit their responsibility to guide young people.

“Homeschooling was for hippies, now it’s for hipsters.”

In January, 6.7 million people are gathering to celebrate and demand more school choice at some 30,000 events and rallies nationwide, yet government schools continue to usurp the role of parents at an alarming pace.