education reform

Education Reform
School Choice: The Battle for Parental Rights and Educational Freedom
On January 29, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order in favor of school choice. While the executive order won't suddenly give parents and students access to the billions…
by Kali Fontanilla on February 18, 2025

Commentary
Linda McMahon to Education May Choke Foreign Influence Operations on Campus
Beyond expected opposition from teachers unions and others entrenched in the current educations system, Linda McMahon, President Trump's nominee for secretary of education, will need to address foreign influence and intrigue…
by Sarah Lee on January 27, 2025

Education Reform
Ending the Department of Education: Background
The Department of Education is back in the national spotlight because President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to work toward dismantling it. As usual, anything Trump proposes—good or bad—receives immediate and…
by Kali Fontanilla on January 2, 2025

Education Reform
Ending the Department of Education: The Good
As is usually the case at the beginning of government expansion, the origins at least were noble. The public schools in the South had been segregated for nearly 100 years.
by Kali Fontanilla on January 2, 2025

Education Reform
Ending the Department of Education: The Bad
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) significantly expanded of the federal government’s role in public education, with disastrous results: Teachers felt intense pressure to “teach to the test,” emphasizing…
by Kali Fontanilla on January 2, 2025

Education Reform
Ending the Department of Education: The Ugly
Shrinking ED would undoubtedly be a complex and controversial process, and we would likely see significant media outcry along the way, which we are already witnessing with just the possibility…
by Kali Fontanilla on January 2, 2025

Book Profile
Advancing After Getting Education Right
Advancing from Getting Education Right to getting education right will require combating the institutions—the teachers colleges, the labor unions, the bureaucracies, the Big Philanthropies, the universities—that have put education into…
by Michael Watson on May 28, 2024

Foundation Watch
Math Lessons Are Racist,
as per the Gates Foundation
Left-leaning math instructors have bought into the ridiculous ideology that “rigid” (and practical) math instruction is “white supremacist” and has been set up to “oppress” minorities. Since practically everything is…
by Kali Fontanilla on April 9, 2024

Organization Trends
Common Core Is Failing American Schools
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…
by Kali Fontanilla on February 8, 2024

Foundation Watch
The Gates Foundation’s Common Core Disaster
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…
by Kali Fontanilla on January 25, 2024