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Education
Indoctrination, Not Education, Standard Through College
by Nancy Thorner and Ed Ingold February 25, 2019There is a growing concern that our children and grandchildren that attend public schools today are being unduly and purposely influenced to a specific political viewpoint of its faculty.
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Education
Entrepreneurs Seek to Disrupt College Admissions Testing—Will Knowledge or Critical Thinking Model Prevail?
by Robert Holland February 14, 2019Starting 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.
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Two very different approaches to education reform began to take shape almost three decades ago, just one year apart
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EducationGovernment
Marxists Are Winning Via America’s Education System, U of W Professor Says
by Nancy Thorner October 12, 2018Dr. 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.
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School choice would give families more relief from the bullying/harassing form of violence than a whole battalion of school resource officers ever could.
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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.”
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In The Tank (ep148) – Is Bipartisanship Dead? Reactions to Brett Kavanaugh, and SeaSteading
by Donald Kendal July 13, 2018Donny Kendal, Jim Lakely and Charlie Katebi present episode #148 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Reason Foundation, Edchoice, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Seasteading Institute.
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Education
Common Core Curriculum Fails to Educate While Incubating Progressivism
by Nancy Thorner and Bonnie O'Neil June 11, 2018Mistakes are often the best teacher, as they force us to revisit a problem and consider how it can be improved.
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And it means overturning the Obama administration’s power grab and misguided surrender.
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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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Critics of the public school system, myself included, often disparage government schools for failing to teach kids.
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Our country will not long endure if adults continue to forfeit their responsibility to guide young people.
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The private school-charter school debate is complex, but it’s obvious that the traditional government school system is broken.