Schools With “Radical Politics” Must Be Tolerated in a Free Society
There is a lot of concern these days about what type of curriculum is—or is not—being taught to schoolchildren. “Curriculum…
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Opinion
Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Education For the Better—If We Let It
It’s hard to believe that it was only a bit over a year ago that ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI)…
Read More » Why Is There A Dyslexia Epidemic?
The earliest documented cases of dyslexia, or a language processing disorder that makes it difficult to read, date back more…
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In Education
In Los Angeles, a Tiny School Lets Young People Direct Their Own Education
From the outside, the headquarters of Alcove Learning looks like any small home in the largely Latino Boyle Heights section…
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Opinion
As Education Decentralizes, Those Who like Control Are Nervous
As more parents gain the opportunity to abandon a compulsory schooling assignment for other options, including homeschooling and microschooling, it’s…
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Opinion
No, John Oliver, Homeschooling Doesn’t Need More Regulation
Those of us who have homeschooled for years are accustomed to periodic calls for greater regulation of homeschooling. Whether it’s…
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Opinion
Compulsory Schooling Laws Have Got To Go
When Massachusetts passed the nation’s first compulsory school attendance law in 1852, parents were mandated to send their children to…
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Opinion
To The Mom Who Doesn’t Want to Send Her Kids to School
It’s back-to-school season and some parents aren’t happy about that. Take the example of Rousmery Negrón, a single mom of…
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Opinion
On His Birthday, Milton Friedman Would Be Happy
I think that Milton Friedman would be happy. I can’t know for certain, as the Nobel Prize-winning economist passed away…
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Opinion
The Solution to Pandemic Learning Loss Is Less Schooling, Not More
The latest data dump from the Nation’s Report Card reveals declining academic performance among US students. As with previous releases…
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Opinion
Gallup Poll Reveals Americans’ Plummeting Confidence in Public Schools
Americans have soured on public schools. That’s the takeaway from Gallup polling results released earlier this month showing that Americans’…
Read More » Loosening Youth Employment Regulations Empowers Teens
My 16-year-old daughter just got her first part-time job, working at a local coffee shop. She comes home beaming after…
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Opinion
In a World Full of Robots, Humans Wanted
The K-12 district schools I went to while growing up in a Boston suburb look nearly the same today as…
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In Education
Two ‘Mompreneurs’ Created a Forest School That Reaches Thousands
It was a cool, muddy morning in March when I pulled into the empty parking lot of a sprawling forest…
Read More » Why Youth Social Media Bans Are a Bad Idea
A teenage boy is scrolling through his Instagram account one night. He notices that a friend has posted a distressing…
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