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Teaching dumb students. Teacher mature man. Fed up. Man desperate teacher in classroom. No hope for better. Tired and exhausted. Difficult work. Emotional burnout. Teacher give up. Hate his job

^{Keri D. Ingraham
August 18, 2022
Unions

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Teachers’ Unions’ Blame Game

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August 18, 2022
Unions

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American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten was instrumental in keeping kids locked out of in-person schooling as she mercilessly pushed the union’s self-serving political agenda. Now she uses the dire situation she helped create as the excuse for the teacher-shortage crisis. Read More ›

Prague/Czech Republic -August 11. 2018 : LGBT Pride March

^{Keri D. Ingraham and Arina Grossu Agnew
July 28, 2022
Indoctrination

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Community Schools’ ‘Woke’ Indoctrination Agenda

_{Keri D. Ingraham and Arina Grossu Agnew
July 28, 2022
Indoctrination

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Currently, there are 10,000 community schools nationwide, equating to roughly six to eight percent of U.S. public schools. But if the federal government has its way, that number will increase dramatically. Read More ›

happy family with the flag of america USA at sunset outdoors

^{Keri D. Ingraham
July 21, 2022
Indoctrination, School Choice, Teaching

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The Battle for the American Mind

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July 21, 2022
Indoctrination, School Choice, Teaching

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The progressive ideologies dominating public education classrooms — with increasing measure — are producing young people beholden to the worldview of their schooling. And in many cases at odds with the values their parents try to instill. Read More ›

U.S. Supreme Court Building Pediment Detail showing

^{Keri D. Ingraham
July 5, 2022
Education Policy, School Choice

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Landmark School Choice Ruling at Supreme Court: A Win for Parents

_{Keri D. Ingraham
July 5, 2022
Education Policy, School Choice

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In a major win for parents, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Carson v. Makin recently that Maine's tuition assistance program could not discriminate against parents who select private religious schools for their children. Read More ›

A child runs underneath the rainbow flag in Portland, Maine during the Pride Parade — Photo by Mercedes Mehling on Unsplash

^{Keri D. Ingraham
June 29, 2022
Indoctrination

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Schools Are Stealing Parental Rights & Causing Irreversible Harm to Children

_{Keri D. Ingraham
June 29, 2022
Indoctrination

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Parents can lose custody if they fail to affirm their child’s desire for gender transition and try to prevent puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries aimed at making the child appear as the opposite sex. Read More ›

Captured in a metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia primary school, this photograph depicts a typical classroom scene, where an audience of school children were seated on the floor before a teacher at the front of the room, who was reading an illustrated storybook, during one of the scheduled classroom sessions. One of the female students was assisting the teacher, while the rest of the class listened attentively to the instructor’s narrative. — Photo by CDC on Unsplash

^{Keri D. Ingraham
June 27, 2022
Education Policy

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Are You Concerned About the Direction of American Public Schools?

_{Keri D. Ingraham
June 27, 2022
Education Policy

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Now is the time for transformational change in our nation’s K-12 education system. Parents must have access to alternatives. The radical indoctrination must stop. And robust learning must occur. Read More ›

Burning sheet of paper in the male hand.

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

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Democrats Are Gaslighting American Parents About School Vouchers

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

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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 ›

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

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Biden Undermines Parents in Remarks to Teachers

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 30, 2022
School Choice

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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

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Will Disney go the way of CNN+?

_{Debra J. Saunders
April 22, 2022
Indoctrination

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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

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Challenging the Educational Establishment

_{Donald Nielsen
April 19, 2022
Curriculum, Teaching

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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 Policy, Unions

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The Deterioration of K-12 Education in America

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

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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 ›

^{Walter Myers III
March 25, 2022
Curriculum

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

_{Walter Myers III
March 25, 2022
Curriculum

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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 ›