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High School for the Gifted Withholds Notification of Awards in the Name of ‘Equity’

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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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Hundreds of Educators Arrested for Sex Abuse Are ‘Tip of the Iceberg’

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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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Lurching From Fad to Fad: The Problematic History of Education Reform in America

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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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Catholic Schools Outperformed Public Schools Nationwide. Here’s Why.

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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

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