Luke Holland | January 30, 2023 (The Lion) — Students are returning to class Monday at a Virginia elementary school where a teacher was shot by a 6-year-old student. That teacher intends to sue. Abby Zwerner, a teacher at Richneck Elementary School in the city of Newport News, was shot by one of her students […]
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Jillian Schneider | January 18, 2023 (The Lion) — Critics say school choice policies harm rural communities. They couldn’t be more wrong. School choice policies help families take advantage of educational alternatives in their community while simultaneously benefiting local public schools, the Heritage Foundation reports in “Rustic Renaissance: Education Choice in Rural America” by Jason Bedrick and
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Jillian Schneider | January 13, 2023 (The Lion) — Public education all over America is failing, including in California with its poor test scores and the worst literacy rate in the nation. A proposed constitutional initiative submitted to California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office in December might help – a move which would “establish the right to a high-quality public education” and establish
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Joe Herring | January 12, 2023 (The Lion) — Reports of student misbehavior have risen sharply in public schools, as districts also report widespread “stunted” social development among students. Yet special education resources may not be able to cope with the subsequent rise in students with special needs. The annual “School Pulse Panel,” a survey
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Joe Herring | January 3, 2023 (The Lion) — Parents with children attending a top-ranked Virginia high school were shocked to discover administrators withheld notifications of National Merit Scholar awards for years. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHS) in Fairfax County, Virginia is a STEM-centered magnet school with high standards for admission,
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Tara Mergener | December 16, 2022 (The Lion) — Hundreds of public educators have been arrested for child sex crimes this year. As many schools stay mum, countless predators slither into new schools undetected. The crimes range from grooming to raping underage students. Among the alleged abusers analyzed by Fox News: four principals, two assistant principals, 226
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Joe Herring | November 10, 2022 (The Lion) — Education in the United States has lurched from fad to fad for the better part of a century, finding ever-ingenious ways to underperform preceding generations. The causes are myriad, but the mechanisms of failure can be identified, and must be discredited to ensure they never rise
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Joe Herring | November 1, 2022 (The Lion) — According to a data analysis performed by Kathleen Porter-Magee, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, “If Catholic schools were a state, they would be the highest performing in the nation on all four NAEP tests.” Amid a contentious national debate over who should exercise greater control
Catholic Schools Outperformed Public Schools Nationwide. Here’s Why. Read More »
