Tag: K-12 | Page 9 | American Center for Transforming Education

^{Keri D. Ingraham
June 10, 2022
Education Policy, Education Reform, Teaching}

Rethinking Teacher Pay to Recruit Subject Matter Experts

_{Keri D. Ingraham
June 10, 2022
Education Policy, Education Reform, Teaching}

Subject matter expertise is particularly valuable for teachers in technical subjects such as science and math. Unfortunately, these technical subjects are also where teacher shortages are greatest. Read More ›

Burning sheet of paper in the male hand.

^{Keri D. Ingraham
May 30, 2022
Education Funding, School Choice}

Democrats Are Gaslighting American Parents About School Vouchers

_{Keri D. Ingraham
May 30, 2022
Education Funding, School Choice}

Defunding public schools — even “stealing money” from them — is how the far-left and teachers’ unions term any attempt to offer parents more choice around education. For them, it’s about money and power, not children and high-quality learning. Read More ›

Outdoor portrait of a cute young black little girl reading a boo

^{Keri D. Ingraham
May 25, 2022
Homeschool}

The Homeschool Awakening Coming to Theaters

_{Keri D. Ingraham
May 25, 2022
Homeschool}

Kirk Cameron’s The Homeschool Awakening is coming to theaters nationwide on June 13 and 14. Revealing the freedom and fun many families experience through home education, the film takes the audience on an engaging and inspiring journey with parents overcoming doubts about homeschooling to create a new vision for what education can and should be. Read More ›

President Joe Biden walks along the Colonnade of the White House Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, en route to the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

^{Andrew McDiarmid
April 30, 2022
School Choice}

Biden Undermines Parents in Remarks to Teachers

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 30, 2022
School Choice}

Do kids in America’s classrooms belong to the teachers? President Joe Biden seems to think so. In remarks to teachers this week at a White House event honoring national and state teachers of the year, Biden told educators that their students “are not somebody else’s children. Read More ›

^{Debra J. Saunders
April 22, 2022
Indoctrination}

Will Disney go the way of CNN+?

_{Debra J. Saunders
April 22, 2022
Indoctrination}

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed legislation that will eliminate Disney’s special tax-district status in what the New York Times described as “brazen retaliation” after the theme-park corporation came out against a Florida bill which critics have branded by critics the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Read More ›

Back to school. Cute asian pupil girl with backpack holding her mother hand and going to school in vintage color tone

^{Donald Nielsen
April 19, 2022
Curriculum, Teaching}

Challenging the Educational Establishment

_{Donald Nielsen
April 19, 2022
Curriculum, Teaching}

Private schools view parents as their customers. But, as a whole, public schools operate as if parents are an unwanted intrusion into their ability to deliver education. Read More ›

Boy student having a video call with his classmates

^{Keri Ingraham and Christos Makridis
April 5, 2022
Education Funding, Education Policy, Unions}

The Deterioration of K-12 Education in America

_{Keri Ingraham and Christos Makridis
April 5, 2022
Education Funding, Education Policy, Unions}

Recruiting and retaining excellent teachers is hindered by a system that rewards tenure instead of performance. Despite the extreme measures of teachers’ unions to promote teacher working conditions and compensation, research reveals that right-to-work laws positively improve worker well-being. Read More ›

Young African American school boy with piggybank and backpack on black background

^{Jennifer Burke
March 28, 2022
School Choice}

Choice in Education Funds Students Not Systems

_{Jennifer Burke
March 28, 2022
School Choice}

Join the growing national movement to make educational freedom available to all families, not just to the elite and wealthy. Read More ›

^{Walter Myers III
March 25, 2022
Curriculum}

In Education, Will the Real Critical Race Theory Please Stand Up?

_{Walter Myers III
March 25, 2022
Curriculum}

Ironically, those pushing for the “teaching” of CRT in K-12 education, which is hardly a viable educational subject, are among those whom critical race theorists argue are largely responsible for the lack of educational equity and attainment in urban public school systems today. Read More ›

Colorful crayons and a symbol of a transgender

^{Keri D. Ingraham
March 23, 2022
Indoctrination}

How Replacing Biological Sex with Gender Identity Harms Children

_{Keri D. Ingraham
March 23, 2022
Indoctrination}

The blatant promotion of transgenderism has infiltrated schools without parental consent. Curricula, books, videos, and activities promoting the transgender ideology are used with students as young as age five. Read More ›