Tag: education

The State of Black America

Commentary Listening to all the rhetoric in the popular media, you would think America is the most unfair, racist nation in the world. You would think that black Americans are uniformly living in oppression and poverty, with no hope for the future, save the federal government arriving on the scene to their rescue. Sorry, liberals,…


The Single Best Thing Americans Can Do to Retake America

Commentary The most frequent question people pose to me is: What can I/we do to fight back against the nihilistic anti-American destruction of virtually all the country’s major institutions? There is an answer. The single best thing Americans can do to counter the left-wing attack on America—against its freedoms, its schools, its families, its children,…


Giving Parents the Choice

Commentary With widespread school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the debate over school choice has once again taken center stage. For the past seven years, approximately two-thirds of Americans have consistently supported school choice. Additionally, support is largely bipartisan, with 82 percent of Republicans, 69 percent of Independents, and 55 percent of Democrats in favor…


How Can Parents Help Make Up for Pandemic Learning Loss?

Summer is usually thought of as lazy days around the pool, amusement parks, hanging out with friends, and hopefully having enough time to get bored, and I’m not talking about just for the kids, I’m talking about for the parents, too. Unfortunately, after the crazy year we’ve had, if you’re a parent, you’re probably feeling…


To Stop Critical Race Theory, Fight to Control School Boards

Commentary The battle to win control of school boards from the grip of racial indoctrinators is like Normandy Beach. Everything hangs on the outcome. Lose and a generation is lost. The outcome will determine whether your children learn to see themselves and other people as individuals, instead of merely members of a racial group. Parents…


The Racist Rhetoric of ‘Anti-Racism’—Interview With Kevin Roberts on the Deception of CRT

The Biden administration recently issued an executive order on critical race theory (CRT) that could build the Marxist concept into America’s education system. However, this allowed for a period of public debate, and the Texas Public Policy Foundation has raised some of the challenges to it. To learn more about this, we sat down for…


Living Books: Essential to a Student’s Appetite for Learning

Grandma’s counter was spread with salads, appetizers, main dishes, and desserts for the family meal. All the second cousins were vying for the coveted positions at the front of the line. The food was blessed and with excessive speed, the entire feast was devoured. It would be comical to suggest that the family needed to…


No Crying in Debate

The young men and women arrived for their debate dressed in jackets, slacks, and skirts. They wanted to look the part, as a strategy for winning. This was to be their very first debate in their weekly homeschool co-op class day. The subject was a sobering one: The federal government should discontinue capital punishment. Jane,…


Virginia Teacher Placed on Leave After Saying He Won’t Call Students by Their Preferred Pronouns

An elementary school teacher in Loudoun County, Virginia, was placed on administrative leave after objecting to his school district’s proposed policy about pronouns, according to a report. Byron “Tanner” Cross, who teaches physical education at Leesburg Elementary School in Loudoun County Public Schools, was placed on leave after he spoke against a proposed rule that…


Rutgers University Apologizes to Palestinian Community After Condemning Anti-Semitic Attacks

A day after condemning the recent surge in anti-Semitic attacks, the administrators at New Jersey’s Rutgers University issued an apology, saying that their previous message has failed to show support to members of the Palestinian community. In a campus-wide statement sent out on May 26, Rutgers–New Brunswick Chancellor Christopher Molloy and Chancellor-Provost Francine Conway said…