InfluenceWatch Friday
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The Crisis of Exploitation in the Classroom: The Past Is Prologue
Education is the secret to happiness, comfort, and prosperity. Ignorance is the bedfellow of misery, poverty, and hardship. But education is missing in too many communities. Why? A combination of…
The Crisis of Exploitation in the Classroom: Educational Malfeasance
It is the role of schools and our teachers to inculcate critical thinking and eschew indoctrination. Unfortunately, our teachers are underpaid and overworked and overstressed and underappreciated. Administrators often look…
The Crisis of Exploitation in the Classroom: Teachers’ Unions
Teachers’ unions are to the education of students what a ball and chain are to a swimmer. Their counter-educational mission is the collective maximization of pay and benefits coupled with…
The Crisis of Exploitation in the Classroom: Growing School Competition
The abysmal state of public-school education controlled by teachers’ unions has given birth to private and charter schools as competitive alternatives for ambitious and industrious parents and students. That is…
Agency: Giving Kids and Their Caregivers Hope for the Future
Ian Rowe is an optimist, and that shines through in his new book, "Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for All Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #229: Agency with Ian Rowe
We’ve heard a great deal lately about education in America, from discussions about school choice post-COVID restrictions to whether curriculum is being developed that helps children learn to succeed at…
Catharsis Comes for the Education Monopoly
This School Choice Week—which runs through Friday, January 28—many activists are celebrating 2021 as the “year of school choice” and hailing advances that charter schools, private school subsidies, and other…
NAACP Harms the Black Community: History
The NAACP has a long and storied history of representing the interests of the African American community, but in recent years it has maintained its intense focus on racism—which has…
NAACP Harms the Black Community: The NAACP’s Focus
the NAACP focuses on issues that do little to help the black community and may in fact harm it. An effective way to demonstrate this is to search terms using…