Guest Articles Oklahoma Schools ditch Bible Elective Curriculum after Pressure Tony Perkins December 3, 2014 It may be the Good Book, but it’s getting a bad rap in Oklahoma. Just months after being the first…
Perspectives Colleges Slow to Adjust to New Norm of Part-Time Students Spencer Irvine November 11, 2014 Universities and colleges are slow to adjust to the new student: one who isn’t full-time and living on-campus, but the…
Perspectives Common Core Boosts Homeschooling Malcolm A. Kline November 8, 2014 Naysayers take note: Common Core has had at least one unanticipated positive outcome. “Home schooling has steadily risen in North…
Events, Perspectives “We Don’t Need No Thought Control” in Schools Spencer Irvine November 6, 2014 A panel discussion at Center for American Progress called for brain research in the classroom and shared their remarks on…
News Common Core Rulz Malcolm A. Kline October 24, 2014 On both coasts, grandparents are learning to apply a modern-day rule of thumb with surprising accuracy: If it looks inane,…
Events More Common Core for You! Spencer Irvine October 23, 2014 President Obama’s favorite think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), wants to align standardized tests with Common Core standards. Recently,…
Events Charter School Health Improves, Gives Hope to Parents and Students Spencer Irvine October 11, 2014 At the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, several public charter school officials lauded the rising popularity of charter schools across the…
Events The Obama Administration Restricts Credit Card Use Spencer Irvine October 10, 2014 The Obama administration is pushing Americans away from credit cards and regular lines of credit in the financial market and…
Events Campbell Brown at AEI: Public School Protection Racket Malcolm A. Kline October 6, 2014 “What do you call Democrats with kids?” goes a joke of fairly recent vintage. “Republicans,” is the punch line. Former…
News Kaplan University Takes On Obama Spencer Irvine October 3, 2014 The U.S. Department of Education’s latest rule, the “gainful employment” or GE rule, mandates that for-profit colleges cannot saddle students…
News Common Core: Beyond Rote Malcolm A. Kline September 30, 2014 As we’ve noted before, when proponents of the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms try to make the case for…
News MOOCs Expand, Homeschoolers Beware Spencer Irvine September 26, 2014 The School Reform News, published by the Heartland Institute, found there are over 1,200 massive open online courses, or MOOCs,…