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The Basis for Good K-12 Grades?
By John Droz, Jr. There is a surprisingly wide-range of possible reasons. Sometimes there are very important things that we simply do not give sufficient Critical Thought to. My belief is that the grades our children are given in K-12 is one of them. Let’s say that you have this choice: do you want your […]
Florida: Islamic leaders fight attorney general’s claim taxpayer vouchers pose national security threat
By Jihad Watch Islamic supremacists pushing Sharia law have infiltrated America at every level of society. The latest involves Islamic schools in South Florida which have been using taxpayer funds. “School vouchers row: Islamic leaders hit back at ‘Sharia law’ claim,” by Natalie La Roche Pietri, WLRN, November 5, 2025: Islamic leaders in South Florida have […]
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Indiana Is Innovating Education—More Than Any Other State
By Dr. Keri D. Ingraham Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Indiana’s bold and comprehensive strategy to advance K-12 education has set a new national benchmark. On Oct. 17, Indiana submitted a waiver application to the U.S. Department of Education seeking flexibility and a reduction of red tape from Washington. Under the leadership of Gov. Mike […]
ASU Students Hosted An Event Exposing Antifa Presence On Campus
By Ethan Faverino Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes A group of students at Arizona State University hosted a public awareness event on Thursday, October 23, at the Memorial Union to highlight Antifa’s activities on campus and encourage students to confidentially report any known associates for submission to the Federal Terror Watchlist. The event, hosted by […]
New video: The Truth About Wind And Solar
By The Editors Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute A new video released today by Center of the American Experiment exposes the real environmental costs of wind and solar energy. Wind and Solar: Too Good To Be True? is a short video (2:40) that uses data and facts to dispel the myths about alternative energy sources. The video informs viewers […]
The Headless Horseman and the Battle of White Plains
By Catherine Salgado Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes On Oct. 28, 1776, at the Battle of White Plains in New York, a Hessian soldier lost his head — literally. But for two and a half centuries he has haunted Americans’ imaginations as the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. If you go to the village of […]
Virtue Economics
By Nathan Smith Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutes Editors’ Note: This is truly a thoughtful essay, worth your time. While the author’s focus is on economics, it is equally valid in the political realm, which is hard to separate from economics anyway. We are convinced that from both the Left and the libertarian right, there […]
Shot Heard Round the Web: St. Crispin’s Day and Fighting Against Great Odds
By Catherine Salgado Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.” On Oct. 25, we honor the martyrs Sts. Crispin and Crispian, their feast made famous to English speakers of all faiths by William Shakespeare’s immortal speech in Henry V. It encapsulates the fervor of men who fight a […]
Some New York School Districts Spend Almost Or More Than $100,000 A Student
By Mark Stricherz Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Editors’ Note: Although this publication does not focus on New York, the astounding cost of public schools in some jurisdictions that, at the same time, achieve poor educational outcomes, is a cautionary tale for any state, county, or school district. There is little, if any, correlation between […]
The Democrat Party: We Will Not Serve
By Conlan Salgado Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Editors’ Note: In the future, articles such as this very informative and superbly written piece will be published as Premium Content. We recommend subscribing to Premium Content membership for continued access to unique and very current commentary by our writers and their columns. For $4.99 a month, […]
Back-to-School Sanity: Start Parenting, Stop Helicoptering
By John Droz, Jr. More Critical Thinking about Parenting. I occasionally repost another author’s column that I believe is consistent with my Critical Thinking objective. This is a good example from respected parenting guru John Rosemond… As should be widely known by now, I take requests. “Can you give us some back-to-school tips?” asks Geraldine, mother of three. […]
Heiress To Holocaust Gas Fortune Funds Far-Left And Anti-Israel Activism
By Tiffany Gabbay Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Editors’ Note: The popular narrative of “revolution” is that disgruntled masses revolt against the power structure due to “oppression”, and hence is “a bottom-up” movement. In most Western countries, it usually is “top down.” The bottom-up theory has been a myth for a long time. After all, […]
Featured Video: The First Post Accident Interview With Dennis Prager
By Neland Nobel October 11, 2025/by Neland Nobel Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Editors’ Note: Dennis Prager is one of the most influential Conservative Thinkers. He began his career on the radio in 1982 and subsequently produced multiple books, as well as hundreds of tapes and CDs of lectures, which were distributed nationwide. He […]
The Antisemitic Handwriting on the Wall at Indiana University — My Alma Matter
By Beverly Newman, Ed. D. The handwriting on the wall at my alma mater, Indiana University, is too faint against seething antisemitism. As an honors graduate and commencement speaker and Jewish author and award-winning film producer, I am sorry that my grandchildren and thousands of other Jewish students at IU will never know the joy […]
The Lost Vocation of Medicine: From Calling to Commodity
By Joseph Varon Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes When I was a young medical student, I believed with all my heart that medicine was the highest calling a human being could answer. We were not just training to earn a degree or secure a position. We were stepping into a lineage, inheriting a tradition that […]
State Laws on K-12 School Classroom and Library Age-Appropriate Book Policies
By John Droz, Jr. How is this MAJOR issue handled across the country? As a K-12 education expert, one of the more problematic matters happening in US K-12 schools is the insidious infiltration of age-inappropriate material in school libraries and classrooms. Many people have the mistaken idea that this is all about sex, but it […]
Liberty Triumphs Over Tyranny: The Battle Of King’s Mountain
By Mark Wallace Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes It was September 1780. After their defeat at the battles of Saratoga in New York State and Monmouth Court House in New Jersey, the British decided to try their luck in the Southern States. And there they met with one success after another, to the point that […]
Where Do Americans Get Their Meaning of Life?
By Bruce Bialosky Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes As we head into the time of year when many Americans reflect on the material benefits provided by our capitalist society, I came across a communication from the self-appointed philosopher, David Brooks, of The New York Times. The title of the column caught my eye: Opinion | […]
The Education Elephant: A Blueprint for AI in a Slow-to-Change Industry
By Editorial Board – DrRichSwier.com In this episode we’re joined by Ed Buckley and Marlee Strawn, co-founders of Scholar Education, to discuss the challenges and opportunities of implementing AI in education, a traditionally slow-to-change field. Marlee shares her “lightbulb” moment when her high school teachers came to her with concerns about students using ChatGPT to […]
The University of Arizona Gets a Low Grade
By Craig J. Cantoni Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes It ranks 325th in the latest Wall Street Journal Ranking of 584 colleges. The Wall Street Journal has published its annual ranking of 584 US colleges. Unlike other rankings, a primary criterion is how well graduates do financially after graduation. Other criteria are: The graduation rate […]
The Race-Hustling Illegal Running Des Moines Schools Indicts The Entire System
By Joy Pullmann Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Editors’ Note: This is an alarming story. Not only was he an illegal alien, but his qualifications are highly suspect. Yet, the educational establishment had no problem putting him in charge of educating our children. However, this is likely the end result of DEI policies, where merit […]
Don’t Know Much About America
By Tony Francois Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Tim Kaine’s idiocy on natural rights. In a world where a Supreme Court nominee can’t safely say what a woman is, perhaps we should be unfazed by a U.S. senator who insists that the concept of God-given natural rights is really crypto-Iranian theocracy. In the week leading […]
Illegal Immigrant Superintendent Nabbed By ICE Helped Pass Policy Allowing Criminals To Be Hired In District
By The Daily Caller The illegal immigrant with a criminal record caught running Iowa’s largest school district championed and helped pass a policy that makes it easier for criminals to be hired in the district. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Friday arrested Ian Roberts, a Guyanese national who is in the country illegally but was […]
DEPRAVED: Chicago Teachers Union Honors Convicted Cop Killer on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists List
By The Geller Report The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) mourned the death of a convicted terrorist on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list who murdered a police officer. Is it any wonder we have lost a generation to abject lunacy? How long must we be held hostage to terrorist union organizations? Thanks to the Chicago […]
MIKE BENGERT: What Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Says About The State Of Our Schools And Culture
By Mike Bengert Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes A young Christian man named Charlie Kirk was shot—simply for speaking his mind. A husband, a father, a voice for the next generation. Lord, why did it happen this way? How dare they steal the breath from a faithful man? Charlie was not a violent agitator, not […]
Virginia Universities Score a ‘D’ in College Free Speech Rankings
By The Daily Signal The echoes of Sunday’s memorial service for slain conservative leader Charlie Kirk are still reverberating across the United States. While Kirk’s most effective method for convincing young people about the rightness of conservatism was through his “Prove Me Wrong” college campus tours—including stops originally scheduled at Virginia Tech and Liberty University this month—it […]
Catholic Schools are Missing the Boat — But their failing business model can easily be fixed!
By John Droz, Jr. This should be the BEST time for U.S. Catholic schools, in the last 50± years! This should be the time when almost all US K-12 Catholic schools have full enrollment and (as a direct result) would be in strong financial conditions. This should be the time when Catholic schools are building extensions, and new […]
Arizona’s Attorney General Wages Lawfare on Families
By Jason Bedrick Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Arizona is one of the nation’s leading states in offering families education choice—and families are loving it. Three out of four parents support the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program, which enables families to choose the learning environments that work best for their children. Parents can use these funds to pay for […]
Turning Point USA Chapter Requests Explode Following Charlie Kirk’s Assassination
By AZ Free News Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Requests to establish Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapters exploded in the days following the assassination of its CEO and founder, Charlie Kirk. Kirk, a devout, professed Christian and Phoenix native, was a month shy of turning 32 years old at the time of his death. Kirk […]