January 17, 2020

Happiness, Thy Name is National School Choice Week

The 10th annual National School Choice Week (NSCW) will kick off January 26 with some 25,000 schools participating in a mind-boggling 51,300 independently organized events encompassing all 50 states. The growth of this event serves as an indicator...

April 10, 2019

Educrats vs. students: the Milwaukee showdown

"Power to the education establishment!" — it could become the rallying cry for Democrats during their 2020 presidential nominating convention in Milwaukee. "Power to local parents and taxpayers" — well, not so much....

August 5, 2018

Educational Choice Must Truly be Free

Oscar Wilde once said, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness." Those words from kept running through my mind while reading a rather stunning think piece in the public education establishment...

December 24, 2017

Is Working Well within a Group the Essence of Education?

According to a new twist to an international test, American students are much better at group collaboration than they are doing academic work on their own. If true, is that an advancement or setback for education in America? One thing is certain: ...

October 31, 2017

Would revived civics end up being progressive ed redux?

The good news is that civics education, which teaches children the basics of good citizenship, is quickly gaining fans after being dormant for decades.  There is a growing recognition that democracy cannot endure if three fourths of American stu...

July 24, 2017

Leftist Ideologues Use Big-Lie Technique to Slam School Choice

Led by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a left-wing think tank founded by John Podesta, who later served as chairman of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, the political left is attempting to smear the modern school-voucher movement as ...

May 12, 2017

Common Core or Freedom of Choice: Which Will Prevail?

If you have kids in school or you teach schoolchildren, you must remember those halcyon days of 2008, when the idea of a Common Core (CC) to direct and track all American children along educational pathways to careers or college began to take root. ...

July 19, 2016

The long and the short of presidential candidates’ websites

Normally, political competitors’ websites are so off the shelf and banal that they don’t present much of a contrast.  That is not the case in the 2016 presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, which is set for offic...