Analysis and Commentary

Public Education’s Alarming New 4th ‘R’: Reversal of Learning

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Pictured: American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten (Credit: US Department of Education) Vince Bielski | January 23, 2024 (RealClearInvestigations) — Call it the big reset – downward – in public education. The alarming plunge in academic performance during the pandemic was met with a significant drop in grading and graduation standards to ease the […]

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This National School Choice Week, Let’s Celebrate Return to Founding Principles

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Rachel Alexander Cambre | January 22, 2024 (The Daily Signal) — The school choice policies sweeping the nation may be among the most innovative—and promising—enacted in recent memory. Yet they also embody a return to principles first enshrined in American law nearly 400 years ago. In 1642, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony crafted the nation’s first education law,

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EARLE-SEARS: Disadvantaged Virginia Families Need School Choice

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Winsome Earle-Sears | January 19, 2024 (The Roanoke Star) — One dollar, seventy-five cents, and a rock-solid education. That’s what lifted my father out of poverty when he arrived here in the United States. As we move forward throughout the legislative session, I hope the General Assembly can come together to ensure every Virginian has

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Fairfax County’s Teachers Unions Fail Students

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Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | January 18, 2024 (Washington Examiner) — At Fairfax County’s school board meeting last week, Leslie Houston, the Fairfax Education Association president, was clear that teachers unions want parents out of the picture. During her testimony, she advised the district’s school board to “champion public education … Disregard your skeptics … Continue leveraging our expertise.” “Expertise” is

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