Tag: K-12 public education

African american young male teacher teaching african american elementary girl on wheelchair in class

^{Walter Myers III
January 3, 2025
Charter Schools, Education Policy, School Choice}

Blacks Need High-Quality Education, Not a DEI Agenda — Part 2

_{Walter Myers III
January 3, 2025
Charter Schools, Education Policy, School Choice}

To increase the supply of quality black professional candidates, the focus should be on high-quality education, not equity. Specifically, the black community needs to improve the black college graduation rate, which will first require us to address the poor state of K-12 education. So how do we go about fixing a broken K-12 public education system? Read More ›

Group Of Elementary School Pupils Sitting On Floor Listening To Teacher

^{Walter Myers III
December 11, 2024
Education Policy, Future of Work}

Blacks Need High Quality Education, Not a DEI Agenda — Part 1

_{Walter Myers III
December 11, 2024
Education Policy, Future of Work}

[Editor’s Note: This is Part One of a two-part article. Click to read Part Two: Blacks Need High-Quality Education, Not a DEI Agenda — Part 2.] John Deere, Harley-Davidson, Ford Motor Company, and other major corporations are backtracking on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives and returning to hiring based on merit. Make no mistake. A work environment featuring diverse ideas and opinions is highly conducive to success. Similarly, it is important to have a work culture that includes all players on the team. But most often, DEI is focused on prioritizing race and sexual orientation over the applicable criteria of merit. This DEI agenda is problematic. Some people counter that the “E” in DEI implies a commitment to equitable outcomes in addition to equal opportunity. In other Read More ›

^{Keri D. Ingraham, EJ Antoni
August 2, 2024
Future of Work, Higher Education}

How College Wrecked Productivity and How to Fix It

_{Keri D. Ingraham, EJ Antoni
August 2, 2024
Future of Work, Higher Education}

New survey results reveal that Americans' satisfaction with their customer experiences today has fallen to the lowest level in at least a decade. This decline can be traced to two things: a stagnating level of worker productivity, and an education system failing to impart practical skills to the workforce. Read More ›

^{American Center for Transforming Education
December 13, 2022
Education Policy, School Choice}

Landmark Educational Freedom Victory

_{American Center for Transforming Education
December 13, 2022
Education Policy, School Choice}

2022 was extraordinary — the year universal school choice became a reality. Not long ago, statewide educational freedom was only a pipe dream. Read More ›

Young male student sitting in the classroom

^{Keri D. Ingraham
October 20, 2022
Education Policy, Unions}

Underfunded & Understaffed — The Reoccurring Themes of K-12 Public Education

_{Keri D. Ingraham
October 20, 2022
Education Policy, Unions}

No regard is given to the poor management of personnel nor the bloated school district bureaucracy and staff rosters. Schools operate an overstaffing model, ignoring enrollment downturns because it positions them well to claim the education system is underfunded, which pulls on the heartstrings of lawmakers and voters. Read More ›

Elementary School Science Teacher Uses Interactive Digital Whiteboard to Show Classroom Full of Children how Software Programming works for Robotics. Science Class, Curious Kids Listening Attentively

^{Keri D. Ingraham
August 4, 2021
Charter Schools, Education Policy, Homeschool, School Choice}

Competition Is Good for Customers, but Would It Benefit Schools?

_{Keri D. Ingraham
August 4, 2021
Charter Schools, Education Policy, Homeschool, School Choice}

Competition benefits consumers and is viewed as advantageous to them within the marketplace. However, when it comes to K-12 education in our country, competition is the outlier. Read More ›

Beautiful toddler sitting on the floor playing with building blocks toy at kindergarten

^{Keri D. Ingraham
July 13, 2021
Education Policy}

With Biden It’s a Free-for-All, Preschool Included

_{Keri D. Ingraham
July 13, 2021
Education Policy}

Falling within his $1.8 trillion American Families Plans, the President is attempting to push a policy of government-provided preschool for all three- and four-year-old children. Read More ›

student's hand taking English test in class

^{Keri D. Ingraham
June 23, 2021
Education Policy, Innovation, Technology in Education}

K-12 Redesign: Retooling Testing

_{Keri D. Ingraham
June 23, 2021
Education Policy, Innovation, Technology in Education}

Our K-12 schools are organized more like a swim meet focused on recording student placement results rather than a swim lesson devoted to student learning. What value are student assessment results if all students move on to the next lesson, concept, or skill regardless of whether mastery was achieved or not? Read More ›

^{Keri D. Ingraham
June 9, 2021
Indoctrination}

The Radical Reshaping of K-12 Public Education (Part 3): Critical Race Theory & Woke Academics

_{Keri D. Ingraham
June 9, 2021
Indoctrination}

A form of reverse racism is not only dominating the national conversation but is now a bedrock of teacher training and student academics. Critical Race Theory and woke education are sweeping schools labeling white teachers and students racist and requiring them to denounce their white supremacy — even basic mathematics is under attack for its so-called racism. Read More ›

^{Keri D. Ingraham
June 4, 2021
Indoctrination}

The Radical Reshaping of K-12 Public Education (Part 2): Civics & History

_{Keri D. Ingraham
June 4, 2021
Indoctrination}

The indoctrination of our future electorate, instead of presenting historical facts and fostering higher-order thinking skills in students (analysis, synthesis, etc.), is producing generations who will blindly support ideologies they have yet to evaluate for themselves based on fact. Read More ›

money printing process concept illustration

^{Keri D. Ingraham
May 12, 2021
Education Policy}

More Money Can’t Solve the K-12 Education Crisis

_{Keri D. Ingraham
May 12, 2021
Education Policy}

Money can’t buy happiness. Nor can pumping excessive money into our K-12 public education system buy student achievement. But people will still try, and when it doesn’t produce the desired outcome, they will try again, setting the threshold of required money higher than before. And, so the insane cycle repeats itself — again and again and again. Read More ›

3D Illustration Roboter als Arbeitskraft in der Logistik

^{Keri D. Ingraham
May 6, 2021
Future of Work}

K-12 Schools Are Not Preparing Students for the Workforce

_{Keri D. Ingraham
May 6, 2021
Future of Work}

The U.S. is on a perilous path, with global leadership in jeopardy by continuing to inadequately prepare students with the skills and knowledge needed for success in the increasingly competitive future workforce. Without a change of course, the current K-12 education crisis will result in a diminished quality of life for American society as a whole. Read More ›