Kali Fontanilla, former California high school teacher and Capital Research Center senior research fellow, talks about the absolute failure of Common Core, the surge of home schooling, the attempts to…
The Gates Foundation played a crucial role in making the vision of Common Core a reality. Yet after an entire decade of implementation, “no convincing evidence exists that the standards…
All government unions are profoundly harmful, but the most damaging are the teachers’ unions. Since 2020, they have lobbied and agitated successfully to keep kids out of schools—and keep their…
“The teachers unions have more influence on the public schools than any other group in American society.”[2] The rules under which schools operate are shaped by union demands in collective…
Government unions differ from those in the private sector in many ways, but foremost is that described by Terry Moe: “By participating actively in electoral campaigns…and by using their members,…
Teachers’ unions are writing the playbook of the hard left. The Freedom Foundation obtained Racial Justice in Education, an internal document published in 2018 by the National Education Association. It…
The teachers’ unions sure revealed their character during the COVID-19 crisis of 2020–2022. They successfully kept kids out of schools, made sure that the children were all wearing masks, began…
Education is the process of teaching and developing knowledge and understanding in others. Sadly, public schools have become an increasing source of frustration and even despair for parents, students, and…
Despite major opposition from the two most prominent teachers’ unions, education advocates are fighting for your kids in the public school classroom. At their urging, some states have enacted academic…
Homeschooling, academic transparency, and school choice laws have been passed in red states to give some relief to parents who can’t or don’t want to homeschool. Even in blue states,…