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Heartland Weekly: CPAC 2019 and Tim Huelskamp on Socialism
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of March 4, 2019 -
Education Bureaucrats Try to Squash Independent Thought
Opinion -Editorial -After deliberating for two years, a national commission is pushing to implement social-emotional learning (SEL) in all government schools. -
Heartland Weekly: Facts Sanders Doesn’t Want You to Know
Opinion -Editorial -Week of February 25, 2019 -
South Carolina Taxpayers Lose on Clemson Tigers’ Salaries for Coaches
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Coaches at state universities earn high salaries and pension benefits -
Florida School Voucher Programs Show Positive Results, Study Finds
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Students more likely to go to and graduate from college -
Heartland Weekly: Millennials: Quit Demanding Socialism
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of February 18, 2019 -
Education Secretary DeVos Celebrates 15 Years of DC Opportunity Scholarships
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -The only federally funded school voucher program has been a success -
Arizona AG Sues State University Over Real Estate Deals
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Arizona State University land deals allow commercial developments to benefit from tax exemption -
Heartland Weekly: Senators: Do Your Duty and Confirm Wheeler Now!
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of February 11, 2019 -
Entrepreneurs Seek to Disrupt College Admissions Testing—Will Knowledge or Critical Thinking Model Prevail?
Opinion -Editorial -Starting a company from scratch that’s able to compete with the long-entrenched SAT and ACT in the college-entrance testing business sounds like an impossible dream. -
Many Teachers Love the Choice That Union Leaders Loathe
Opinion -Editorial -The ESA is the latest innovation in choice, and quite likely the most promising for bringing about enduring reform of K–12 education. -
Heartland Weekly: Democrats’ Green New Deal Is Simply Crazy
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of February 4, 2019 -
Heartland Weekly: Record Cold Forces Rethink on Global Warming
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of January 28, 2019 -
NM Supreme Court Approves Program Lending Textbooks to Religious Schools
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -The court’s decision reversed its own 2015 ruling that the textbook lending program was unconstitutional -
MT Supreme Court Nixes Education Tax-credit Scholarship Program
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -The Montana Supreme Court ruled the state’s education tax credit program unconstitutional -
Heartland Weekly – Four Glaring Examples of the Socialist Agenda
Opinion -Editorial -Week of January 14, 2019 -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Introduction of Child Safety Account Legislation
Opinion -Press Release -“No child should be forced to remain in an unsafe education environment.” - Lennie Jarratt -
Florida Supreme Court Rebuffs Challenge to Public School System
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Court ruled that the adequacy of the schools is a political question, not a judicial question -
Leftist Radicals to Blame for Decline of Small Colleges like UW-SP
Opinion -Editorial -Who needs "history" -- all that irrelevant focus on dead white men -- anyway? -
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Consider Property-Tax Swap Bill
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Bill would slash property taxes, hike state personal income tax -
Wisconsin School Choice Students Outperform Government School Peers
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Students in statewide school choice program ace ACT test -
Uneducated: Why American Education Is Fundamentally Flawed
Opinion -Editorial -Mediocrity has become normalized and institutionalized. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Expert Comments on Florida Court Ruling on Tax Credit Scholarship Program
Opinion -Press Release -“The plaintiffs, repeatedly defeated politically, turned to the courts. Thankfully, the courts rejected their attempted political end run around the state’s legislature.” -
A Simple Formula to Increase Learning: Read, Write, Read More, Write More
Opinion -Editorial -The never-ending quest for magic formulae that universally educate all children brings to mind this lyrical lament from a 1980 Johnny Lee country tune: “I was lookin’ for love in all the wrong places.”
