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Why Governors Are Opting-In to School Choice at Record Speed

It’s National School Choice Week in America, and the advancement of education freedom is sweeping the country. Governors are opting-in their states to the new federal tax credit scholarship at rapid rates. The scholarship allows taxpayers to contribute up to $1,700 per year to a qualified non-profit scholarship-granting organization and receive a nonrefundable dollar-for-dollar tax credit. Read More ›
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Competition Coming for the SAT, ACT, AP, and International Baccalaureate

For far too long, K-12 education has been dominated by monopolies — the public education system, state standardized testing, the SAT and ACT college entrance exams, Advanced Placement, and the International Baccalaureate program. The result has been soaring educational costs, declining quality, and a lack of innovation, all to the detriment of students nationwide. Read More ›
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How to Save Iran 1-2-3

Iran has been experiencing quite a bit of disorder recently. The reasons for this are "complicated" — Iran has many foreign enemies, and the situation smells like an attempted "color revolution" — but the government of Iran has also been making quite a mess of things all by itself, recently and for a long time now. It's no surprise that even the most patriotic Iranians might be very dissatisfied today. Read More ›
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Homeless Family’s Outrageous Situation Suggests Unique Remedy

A shocking story published Dec. 19 by Charlie Harger of KIRO News Radio tells of a 9-year-old boy living in a tent in one of Seattle’s public parks. He lives there with his parents, when they’re around. His mother is a fentanyl addict and prostitute who makes the boy wait outside in the bushes while she services clients in the tent. His father reportedly has a long criminal history. Read More ›
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Olasky Books: Benefits of Being an Outsider

Jenny Taylor’s Saving Journalism (Pippa Rann Books, UK, 2025) ably chronicles the rise and fall of public interest reporting, and what we have lost as the powerful can now operate with fewer restraints. She notes how western culture’s journalistic innovators until about 1900 were “typically outsiders, religious dissenters who lived by a specific narrative: a narrative of reality and of Read More ›

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Tragic Tales Demand Reform

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Keri D. Ingraham Kicks Off 2026 at the White House

Following several invitations to the White House in 2025, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and American Center for Transforming Education Director Keri D. Ingraham returned this week. The Trump Administration continues to prioritize the advancement of education freedom and education innovation, while breaking down the needless federal bureaucracy. Read More ›