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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 […]
Murders Rise As Publishing Houses Sell Violent LGBT Fantasies To Kids
By Michael Weingrad Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes The publishing industry is cranking out books based on the murderous nihilism of the trans community and marketing them to kids. This is how The New York Times summarizes Manhunt, a novel the newspaper celebrates alongside works by James Baldwin and Adrienne Rich as among the “Top […]
‘Incubators Of Hate’: UN Agency ‘Knowingly’ Put Hamas Terrorists In Classrooms, Report Alleges
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What Killed Charlie Kirk
By Liel Leibovitz Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes And, more importantly, can we stop it? What can you say in the aftermath of a national tragedy like Charlie Kirk’s assassination? In the 24 hours or so [now five days] since Kirk was gunned down in Utah by a shooter who, as of this writing, is […]
Educators, Heal Thyself
By Craig J. Cantoni Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes University presidents need the courage and principles to demand better from K-12 schools. You’ve probably seen the latest indictment of America’s public schools. Or is it an indictment of American culture? Or maybe a sign of America’s decline? It is alarming, whatever it is. I’m referring […]
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Communist Party Members Are Studying On Campuses Near You
By The Daily Caller Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members enrolled in U.S. universities have established overseas party branches on American campuses supported by their Chinese alma maters, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered. Chinese academic announcements reveal CCP members connected to two universities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have founded overseas party […]
An End Product of Our K-12 Education
By John Droz, Jr. Can we finally connect the dots — and then do something about this? One would think that when a young father of two (Charlie Kirk) is murdered while speaking in public (where he was an invited guest), that no one would say “good,” or “he had it coming,” or “we are better off […]
Trump’s Welcome of 600,000 Chinese Students Plays Into Beijing’s Hands, Experts Say
By Nicole Silverio Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Editors’ Note: We neither understand nor endorse the President’s decision on Chinese students. We don’t see why our best universities should be educating either our adversaries or our competition; take your choice. There is plenty of evidence that these students, with their families left in China, are […]
Settler Colonialism and Genocide
By Richard Kronenfeld,Ph.D Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Mark Twain famously wrote, “There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle after cycle, by force and bloodshed,” yet scarcely a day passes without some woolly-headed […]
Even The Alleged Train Stabber’s Own Mother Didn’t Want Him On The Streets
By Hailey Gomez Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Editors’ Note: This horrible crime, caught so graphically by surveillance cameras, opens up so many important issues; it is not surprising the legacy media does not want it discussed. It does not follow the narrative that “white privilege” is the cause of all of our problems. In […]
Kennedy vs. Big Food: Who Is Funding The Fight Against MAHA?
By Tiffany Gabbay Estimated Reading Time: 20 minutes Editors’ Note: We usually would not run an article of this length. But given the recent grandstanding we saw when RFK, Jr. was before the Senate, we thought a deeper dive was a necessity, so we hope you take the time. It is a complex tale of […]
8 Times Chinese Nationals Got Arrested Around U.S. College Campuses
By The Daily Caller Several Chinese nationals with ties to U.S. colleges and universities have been arrested over the past five years, sparking national security concerns. President Donald Trump announced on August 25 that 600,000 students from China will be permitted to study in the United States. In an August interview with Daily Caller White House […]
Schools Make Kids Crazy
By James Bovard Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Almost one-third of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring “universal mental health screening” to two million Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative. But this rescue effort will […]
Comparing Some K-12 Options: A unique and informative perspective…
By John Droz, Jr. It can sometimes be confusing to understand the key differences between US K-12 education options. There is a multitude of choices, so I thought it would be helpful to compare some important features of representative options. Although the basic table is pictured below, please go here to see the latest version, which is two […]
We Need Patriotic Assimilation
By John Fonte Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes As Calvin Coolidge argued, “America must be kept American.” Andrew Beck has articulated a thick version of the assimilation of immigrants (rightly so, in my view) that harkens back to the spirit of Americanization that was prevalent from the Founding to roughly the 1960s. Louis Brandeis, a liberal […]
TMLC Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Reverse Decision That Strips the Right of Parents to Guide the Religious Upbringing of their Children
By Thomas More Law Center WASHINGTON — The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national nonprofit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on behalf of its client Libby Hilsenrath, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to reverse the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruling based on the Supreme Court’s new […]
Se Habla Espanol? No Habla Ingles
By Bruce Bialosky Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes During our foreign travel, we do go to some well-known tourist attractions. You might be surprised to find out that there are people trying to sell you trinkets. Nearly every vendor is speaking English wherever we may be in the world. To nicely dispense with the vendor […]
The Definitive Case Against the Next Generation Science Standards
By John Droz, Jr. Arguably the most corrosive part of the US K-12 curricula. If our national objective of K-12 education is to produce Critically Thinking graduates (soundly rooted in the 3Rs), then the subject of Science is arguably the most important to get right. Currently, that is not happening. Faithful readers have undoubtedly observed that I […]
Back To School: A Guide For Parents In Today’s Public Schools
By Kali Fontanilla Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Does your public school exist to teach the skills and values you want your kids to learn, or the political values of particular teachers and Big Labor bosses? As a former public school teacher of 15 years, I always felt excitement and anticipation this time of year. […]