From the Home School Legal Defense Association: Some commentators have expressed concerns about a few of the organizations she is associated with. She is currently a member of the board of Great Lakes Education Project…
Topic: education
School Survey: 9 of 10 Educators Claim They’ve Seen a Negative Impact on Students’ Mood since Trump Won
Rethinking Schools conducted an online survey, in conjunction with the Southern Poverty Law Center, on the post-Trump school climate. Here are their findings: The results of the over 25,000 responses were frightening: Nine out of…
Brookings Experts Wonder Why Early Childhood Ed Isn’t Working
Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution wondered why “children who participated in Tennessee’s statewide pre-K program had worse attitudes toward school and poorer work habits than children who didn’t.” Haskins co-authored a policy brief (entitled…
Rethinking Schools Sends Out Email Survey on Post-Trump America
From an email by Rethinking Schools: Dear friends, In Rethinking Schools’ fall editorial, we wrote about how students had been subjected to months of watching Donald Trump “use racist, Islamophobic, misogynist, and anti-immigrant vitriol to…
Meet Betsy DeVos, the New Education Secretary
President-elect Donald Trump has selected billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos, a relatively unknown figure on the national scene, to head the U.S. Department of Education. Calling her a “brilliant and passionate education advocate,” Trump said in…
Texas State Board of Education Rejects Mexican-American Textbook Over ‘Undocumented Immigrant’ Term
NBC News claimed that the phrase and term “undocumented immigrant” is racist, which is a reason why the Texas State Board of Education rejected a textbook for a Mexican-American heritage course: Since its submission, the…
NAACP Denies Children Their Education Civil Rights
A great take from Star Parker: It’s a rare day when the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post are of one mind. But it just happened….
One-Third of Recent High School Graduates Need Remediation Courses
From the John Locke Foundation: Last year, 34 percent of 2015 high school graduates enrolled in one or more developmental math and/or English courses at a North Carolina community college. This is a sharp decrease…
Does the NAACP Want to Keep Minority Children Trapped in Poverty?
An insightful piece from the Wall Street Journal: The NAACP’s statement Saturday shows how out of touch its well-to-do board members are with American education. It calls for a ban on new charters until “charter…
Poll finds 85% of Black Voters think North Carolina should Expand School Choice
85% of black voters in North Carolina want more school choice, poll finds.