Last week, the parents of San Francisco served notice on the educational establishment with its historic recall of Board of Education President Gabriella Lopez and members Faauuga Moliga and Allison Collins. The results were a landslide; around 70 percent of…
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Why Homeschooling Is The Most Effective Political Resistance
I grew up homeschooled in the 1980s when no one outside the Focus on the Family audience had heard of homeschooling. I remember the looks we’d get at the grocery store if we went during school hours. It’s different now….
Read MoreThe Reactionary Mind Offers An Alternative To Modern Malaise
The Reactionary Mind by Michael Warren Davis is a book one should take seriously, but not literally. If the reader misses this important truth, he will either laugh it off as clever but unrealistic critique of modernity or as the…
Read MoreDemocrats Are Making Virginia-Style, Anti-Parent Mistakes In Wisconsin
You would think that after Democrats’ whooping in the Virginia gubernatorial race over education issues, their party would stop antagonizing fed-up parents with the same messages, but no. Rep. Lee Snodgrass, a Democrat state lawmaker in Wisconsin, channeled some real…
Read MoreChristian Schools See Growing Enrollments as Public Schools Decline
A group of 12 major organizations of Christian educators is preparing to embrace changes in teaching and learning amid a continued rise in enrollments in faith-based K-12 schools, a press statement announced Monday. “The last two years have shown the…
Read MoreMicroschools Have a Big Future
What might the future of education look like? As families and students steadily migrate to learning options better poised to serve their needs than struggling traditional public schools, it’s natural to wonder what’s to come. But education in the future…
Read MoreThe Pandemic Set Off a Homeschooling Boom. Don’t Be So Sure That a Bust Is Coming.
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted schools and turned kitchens into classrooms. It also appears to have put a decisive end to a decade of stagnation in the growth of American homeschooling. Homeschooling, which is legal in all 50 states though the…
Read MoreCrime Is Down From Pre-Pandemic Levels in San Francisco (and Other Cities)
Is crime up or down? It’s complicated. We’ve been hearing a lot of panic lately about crime in San Francisco, often offered in service of some political ends. Folks suggest that criminal justice reform measures—or mere demands for them—make America…
Read MoreA Lawsuit Threatens a Promising School Choice Law in West Virginia
A West Virginia law gives students the possibility of opting out of the state’s public school system. A lawsuit filed last week threatens to make them stay right where they are. Passed last year, H.B. 2013 established West Virginia’s Hope…
Read MoreThe Biggest Education Innovation Is Growing Use of School Choice
It wasn’t long ago that “normal” schooling meant public school, understood as some variation on the theme of classes punctuated by the sound of a bell, lunch in a cafeteria, and detours to run around with beat-up gym equipment. Catholic…
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