Opinion
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to NAEP Scores Release
Opinion -Editorial -“It is clear our nation’s education system continues to fail its mission of educating our children.” - Lennie Jarratt -
Congresswoman Virginia Foxx Shares Insight into New Higher Education Bill
Opinion -school-reform-news -Congresswoman Virginia Foxx Shares Insight into New Higher Education Bill -
America’s Kids Need Sleep And Time To Play To Avoid Mental Health Problem
Opinion -Editorial -As debate rages over possible ways to curb school shootings such the one that occurred recently in Parkland, Florida, increased attention to the mental well-being of young people often pops up as a recommended priority. -
Are Parents to Blame for Distressed State of American Youth?
Opinion -Editorial -We seem never to consider the role of parents -
Emotional Learning Will Be the Downfall of Society
Opinion -Editorial -Critics of the public school system, myself included, often disparage government schools for failing to teach kids. -
How One State Is Fixing Higher Education
Opinion -Editorial -Will other states follow North Carolina’s example? -
The Public School Myth
Opinion -Editorial -Opponents of education choice like to prophesize doom when the subject is raised for debate. -
Why Giving Families a Choice Will Always Make Them Happier
Opinion -Editorial -“Homeschooling was for hippies, now it’s for hipsters.” -
‘Adultism’ Fad Prevents Kids From Growing Up
Opinion -Editorial -Our country will not long endure if adults continue to forfeit their responsibility to guide young people. -
Societies Need Fathers
Opinion -Thousands of students walked out of their classrooms in schools across the United States on March 14. -
Minnesota District Forces Kindergarteners to Analyze ‘White Privilege’
Opinion -school-reform-news -A Minnesota school district has instituted an aggressively political curriculum requiring students to begin thinking about race in kindergarten and sustain that emphasis all the way through high school. -
New York DoE Orders Failing District to Develop Improvement Plan
Opinion -school-reform-news -The New York State Department of Education ordered a school district that has been failing students for nearly 30 years to create an improvement plan. -
New York to Require Mental Health Education in K-12 Schools
Opinion -school-reform-news -New York has become the first state to require schools to provide mental health education, with curriculum changes to go into effect this fall. -
Schools Receive Washing Machines and Dryers to Clean Kids’ Clothes
Opinion -school-reform-news -A few dozen schools around the nation are receiving washing machines and dryers so school staff members can wash children’s clothes for them. -
Charter Schools Have Positive Impact on Nearby Schools, Study Finds
Opinion -school-reform-news -Charter schools positively affect neighboring schools’ student achievement, a new study finds. -
Indiana, Colorado Ranked at Top for Charter School Laws
Opinion -school-reform-news -Potential for growth and a high degree of autonomy helped place Indiana and Colorado at the top of a new ranking of states’ charter school laws. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Florida Passing Hope Scholarship Expansion for Victims of Bullying and Violence
Opinion -Press Release -“The signing of this bill is a great step to protect students.” - Lennie Jarratt -
Great Hearts Charter Network Makes Classical Education More Accessible
Opinion -school-reform-news -An increasingly popular network of classical schools illustrates why the number of charter schools across the United States is now nearing 7,000, serving more than three million school children across the nation. -
Can’t We Do Something About School Shootings?
Opinion -Editorial -The recent tragedy at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High has sadly raised this question again. The failure to prevent the loss of young lives reflects both an unpleasant reality and some problems of politics. -
Book Dismissing Value of College Marred by Excess Data
Opinion -school-reform-news -Review of The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money, by Bryan Caplan (Princeton University Press, 2018), 416 pp.; $20.04 on Amazon.com: ISBN-10: 0691174652, ISBN-13: 978-0691174655 -
Kentucky Lawmakers Reintroduce Tax-Credit Scholarship Legislation
Opinion -school-reform-news -Kentucky lawmakers have reintroduced legislation to bring tax-credit scholarships to the state, after the same bills failed last year. -
Federal Disciplinary Policies Lower Wisconsin Students’ Achievement, Study Finds
Opinion -school-reform-news -Disciplinary policies imposed by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) have reduced student achievement in Wisconsin, researchers have found. -
Increased Access to Private Schools Raises Overall Test Scores, Study Finds
Opinion -school-reform-news -More access to private schooling improves student outcomes across the globe, a new study has found. -
School Choice Doesn’t Destroy Public Schools, It Makes Them Better
Opinion -Editorial -The go-to mantra of many traditional government school advocates is that education-choice programs destroy neighborhood public schools.
