From School Reform News: Results of 2016 state testing data indicate 44 percent of New York 3rd graders were proficient in math, yet only 24 percent of 8th graders reached proficiency. The contrast is especially…
Topic: public education
Most Millennials Favor School Choice
From School Reform News: The authors of the EdChoice “2016 Schooling in America” report included an expanded sampling of millennials, those born between 1981 and 1997, “in an effort to better understand where this generation of…
More Schools are Reducing or Eliminating Homework
From School Reform News: The Orchard School, an elementary school in South Burlington, Vermont, eliminated homework during the 2016–17 school year because “the principal there said he’s seen more anxiety among students in the last…
3 Things You Should Know about Trump Pick Betsy DeVos
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…
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…
America’s K-12 Reeducation Camps
Wright State University Professor Martin Kich is absolutely gleeful over a poll showing students not yet eligible to vote would, if they could, make the country look like a blue blazer with a red necktie….
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….
‘To be White is to be Racist’, said One Oklahoma High Schoolteacher
White privilege is seen as a real threat, apparently: Another educator who seems to believe it is his job to parrot what’s put forth in college “Studies” classes is at it again, this time at…
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.