Jonathan W. White | February 2, 2024 (RealClearWire) — Historians and the general public regularly rank Abraham Lincoln as America’s greatest president. There is little doubt that he is widely admired for the work he did to end slavery and preserve the Union. But beyond these two important points, most Americans know little else about […]
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Richard Porter | February 2, 2024 (RealClearWire) — Diversity and inclusion are not what’s wrong with DEI. “Diversity” and “Inclusion” are apple-pie American concepts that echo our national motto: out of many, one; from diversity, inclusion, and unity. What DEI proponents have cleverly done, though, is sandwich between two “good” words a third word with
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John Maxwell Hamilton | January 29, 2024 (RealClearPolitics) — Not long ago, over a dinner with college students, I asked if they longed for a normally functioning government. Their collective answer was, “We don’t know what normal government looks like. The government we have today is the government we have had our entire lives.” As
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Derrick Max | January 24, 2024 (Richmond Times-Dispatch) — As a founder and former principal of Cornerstone Schools of Washington, D.C., one of many innovative private and charter schools serving low-income, academically challenged students in D.C.’s poorest neighborhoods, I am saddened that so few options like Cornerstone exist in Richmond and other underserved communities throughout the
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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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