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Don NIelsen Interview

What Are the Key Areas of K-12?

In your book, Every School: One Citizen’s Guide to Transforming Education, you write about the need to transform three areas of K-12 education — teaching, leadership, and governance. Why those three areas?

Don NIelsen Interview

What Did You Learn in Singapore?

A few years ago Don Nielsen traveled to Singapore to see how they train and select teachers. He tells us how Singapore differs from the United States.

Don NIelsen Interview

What Does Your Game Plan Include?

In your book, Every School: One Citizen’s Guide to Transforming Education, you outline a game plan for transforming K-12 education at the state level. What does that game plan include?

Don NIelsen Interview

Does Mission Matter in K-12?

In your book, Every School: One Citizen’s Guide to Transforming Education, you talk about the mission of the school being largely missing from the conversation. Can you expand upon that? Read More ›
Don NIelsen Interview

What Do You Think About School Choice?

Right now, school choice is expanding and gaining traction in many states throughout our nation. What are your thoughts on school choice — both inside the public system and outside the system? Read More ›
Don NIelsen Interview

What is the Path Forward?

What do you envision as the path forward to truly transforming K-12 education within the United States?

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Federal Budget: No Place for Freelancers

Team GOP's handshake spending plan includes two goals — to cap discretionary spending in fiscal 2024 to at 2022 levels as well as a budget blueprint that balances within 10 years. Read More ›
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Darwin Comes to Africa

Charles Darwin fathered not just a scientific theory, but a toxic social ideology that fueled racist colonial policies in Africa. In this sobering book, African scholar Olufemi Oluniyi traces the insidious impact of Darwinian ideas on British imperial policies in Northern Nigeria. Drawing on official documents, public statements, and well-attested historical events, Oluniyi documents how concepts such as evolutionary racism Read More ›