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Conceptual phone showing a cloud and bluebird on blue background

^{Debra J. Saunders
October 26, 2022
Citizen Leadership

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What’s Worse: Big Government or Big Tech? Both

_{Debra J. Saunders
October 26, 2022
Citizen Leadership

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No lie. Big Government has gotten into bed with Big Tech, their offspring likely will grow into Big Brother. Read More ›

Public or Private School Green Road Sign Over Sky

^{Keri D. Ingraham
October 24, 2022
Education

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No Incentive to Provide Quality Service or Produce Results

_{Keri D. Ingraham
October 24, 2022
Education

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One of the biggest differences between public and private K-12 schools is the incentives. Private schools are motivated to satisfy their customers, parents, and families — be responsive or risk losing them. Read More ›

coronavirus fears close schools worldwide amid the virus pandemic outbreak, school closed or shutdown concept

^{Debra J. Saunders
October 19, 2022
Education

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Closed Schools Join with Closed Minds

_{Debra J. Saunders
October 19, 2022
Education

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COVID school closures hurt American kids. American parents have seen it: The longer schools were closed and replaced with remote learning, the more students fell behind. Read More ›

Group of young pupils of elementary school using virtual reality glasses during computer coding class.

^{Keri D. Ingraham
August 23, 2022
Education

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A Case for Disrupting K-12 Education in the U.S.

_{Keri D. Ingraham
August 23, 2022
Education

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As other states follow Arizona’s lead in providing families with educational freedom, the market for edupreneurship will continue to grow. Now is the time for creative, innovative business minds with a passion and a vision for the future of education to step into this emerging arena. Read More ›

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
Education

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Teachers’ Unions’ Blame Game

_{Keri D. Ingraham
August 18, 2022
Education

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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 ›

^{Scott S. Powell
August 16, 2022
Citizen Leadership

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World War III Is Here, So How Do We Win?

_{Scott S. Powell
August 16, 2022
Citizen Leadership

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As I have written previously, World War III is already here, although it is not yet a shooting war. Instead, it is for now a battle for the mind and soul—directed primarily at demoralizing the American people—disconnecting them from reality and undermining their sense of identity, virtue and belonging—their commitment to family, their faith in God, and their appreciation for their country. Read More ›

^{Keri D. Ingraham
August 4, 2022
Education

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Break the K-12 Monopoly

_{Keri D. Ingraham
August 4, 2022
Education

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Combining the sheer number of unionized employees with the massive government funding of public schools produces a noncompetitive system counter to our country’s free marketing founding. Read More ›

Francis Collins at the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health Laboratory — President Joe Biden tours the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health Laboratory Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Bethesda, Maryland. From left, Deputy Director of the NIH NIAAID Vaccine Research Center Dr. Barney Graham, Chief Medical Adviser to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, and Senior Research Fellow and Coronavirus Team Lead at the NIAIC Vaccine Research Center Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett.

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 26, 2022
Human Exceptionalism

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Scientists are Destroying Our Trust in Science

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 26, 2022
Human Exceptionalism

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The harm done to science by fraudsters, data manipulation, sloppy peer review, ideological bias, and outright lying by public scientific spokespersons cannot be overstated. There’s only one cure to the current malaise: unremitting and apolitical scientific excellence. Read More ›

Patriotism: Old red American Pickup truck with flag at the rear end

^{Scott S. Powell
June 14, 2022
Citizen Leadership

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The Key to America’s Survival

_{Scott S. Powell
June 14, 2022
Citizen Leadership

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The United States is dying a death by its own present government that is inflicting a thousand cuts on its citizenry. On every front, what people see is a government against the people. And world disaster may be closer now than ever before. Read More ›

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

^{Keri D. Ingraham
June 13, 2022
Education

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The Homeschool Awakening Coming to Theaters – June 13 & 14

_{Keri D. Ingraham
June 13, 2022
Education

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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 ›

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
Education

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Challenging the Educational Establishment

_{Donald Nielsen
April 19, 2022
Education

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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 ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
March 8, 2022
Human Exceptionalism

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The World Rages at Russia’s Evil Actions—but Shrugs at China’s

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 8, 2022
Human Exceptionalism

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Ukraine is the immediate crisis, to be sure. But over the long term, the Middle Kingdom poses a far greater peril. Our policies going forward need to reflect that threatening reality. Read More ›