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U.S. Supreme Court Building Pediment Detail showing

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

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

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

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 ›

Young student doing homework at home with school books, newspaper and digital pad helped by his mother. Mum writing on the copybook teaching his son. Education, family lifestyle, homeschooling concept

^{Andrew McDiarmid
June 17, 2022
Homeschool}

‘The Homeschool Awakening’: You Already Have What It Takes To Homeschool Your Kids

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 17, 2022
Homeschool}

Should we bother having kids if we’re just going to turn them over to other people to raise? Children are in school – or engaged in extracurricular activities and homework – for roughly the equivalent of a full-time job each week. Outside of sleeping and recreation hours, that doesn’t leave parents much time to shape their kids physically, mentally and morally for adulthood. 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 ›

Teacher reading book to elementary school children in class

^{Walter Myers III
April 27, 2022
Education Reform}

What do Critical Race Theorists Think of the Current State of K-12 Education?

_{Walter Myers III
April 27, 2022
Education Reform}

What critical race theorist Derrick Bell saw as the primary barrier to equal education, which will be surprising to many, is teacher unions and others who have vested interests in maintaining the status quo of public education. Bell was a proponent of charter schools, tuition voucher programs, and independent schools. 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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

Asian tourist man walking on the old and broken wood bridge

^{Keri D. Ingraham
January 17, 2022
Education Policy, Learning}

What Will It Take to Put U.S. K-12 Education on a Better Path?

_{Keri D. Ingraham
January 17, 2022
Education Policy, Learning}

Parents want the student learning loss remedied. They are no longer satisfied with the ineffective one-size-fits-all approach. What will it take to make up for the learning loss and set the United States’ K-12 education system on a better trajectory? Read More ›

Kid with school backpack look on schoolyard towards an open entrance or exit door. Schools and preschools remain locked for children during lockdown, coronavirus pandemic and second wave of covid-19.

^{Keri D. Ingraham
January 17, 2022
Educational Leadership, Unions}

Despite the Known Harm, Schools Shutdown Yet Again

_{Keri D. Ingraham
January 17, 2022
Educational Leadership, Unions}

At least 5,506 schools opted not to provide in-person learning when schools resumed the week of January 3. With closures primarily occurring in large urban districts, the number of students and families negatively impacted by this latest disruption to education is enormous. Read More ›