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While public schools are expected to remain neutral in political matters, teachers unions have become a powerful political force. Those in control of state education systems have illustrated their desire to implement a progressive agenda in schools and politics by funneling millions of taxpayer subsidies to campaigns which pledge to make them stronger. In fact, […]

When you fine tune the studies on Head Start, the program’s shortcomings only become more readily apparent.

Try as they might, when proponents of early federally funded pre-school education ala  Head Start try to make the case for their cause, they can’t quite seal the deal.  “There is one study that shows that the benefits of pre-K education will wash out after four years,” Governor Terry McAuliffe, D-VA, claimed at the Center […]

Proponents of early childhood education may sing its praises but reality keeps rearing its ugly head.

Recently, some long-suppressed government reports have finally revealed that it doesn’t work, despite spending nearly $7 billion on nearly 1 million children every year.

On August 6, 2007, Associated Press writer Lindsey Tanner released an article, “Marketing Tricks Tot’s Taste Buds,” detailing how Dr. Tom Robinson’s August 2007 new study concluded that marketing campaigns can alter a child’s perception of taste and convince them that the name brand is more desirable.

At its best, the record on the 40-year-old federal Head Start program was mixed. Now, the middle-aged government program is becoming downright dangerous, according to Karen Effrem, a director of EdWatch.org.

Policymakers have long thought the solution to the achievement gap to be in early childhood education.

A great read by George Leef at the James G. Martin Center: The next head of OCR should be someone who understands that those changes were both ill-advised and illegal and work to eliminate them. A number of Americans (this writer included) have advocated that the job be offered to Gail Heriot, a professor of […]

From Campus Reform: The school’s president, Mark Schlissel, made national headlines after last week’s shocking election results when he publicly shamed his students who voted for Trump, noting at a school rally that “90 percent of you rejected the kind of hate and the fractiousness and the longing for some idealized version of a non-existent […]

A college student now says that making Native American/Indian headdresses in preschool can lead to racism: Racism starts with feathers and construction paper. That’s according to Kelly Alderfer, a student at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, who wrote in The Keystone about the evils of dressing like an American Indian for Halloween

n FBI document about the Weather Underground, which was hyperlinked in the column, was changed by the FBI to delete a reference to the terrorist group. The “Ayer Head” Professor, Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University in Boston, admits he is the one who prompted the FBI to make the curious change.