education

Organization Trends
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies: Racial Fallacies
"They [progresssives] all believe in a big role for government. They believe that elites like themselves should be preempting other people’s decisions through the power of government. They are very…
by David Hogberg on April 8, 2024

Organization Trends
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies: Knowledge Fallacies
"They [progresssives] believe that the most consequential knowledge is concentrated in people like themselves. They want to preempt the decisions of other people because they feel that they can make…
by David Hogberg on April 8, 2024

Organization Trends
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies: Affirmative Action
"The pandemic, like affirmative action, is another case of third parties setting priorities for other people. Now, it’s good that we tried to save lives during the pandemic. But once…
by David Hogberg on April 8, 2024

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #305: Black Wives Matter (with Delano Squires)
In 1965, future U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), then an Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Johnson administration, issued a report expressing alarm at rising rates of unwed childbearing,…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on February 23, 2024

Philanthropy
Why Give Money To A College That Only Wants To Mock Your Values?
How many times have you moved since you graduated college? Lots, probably, but somehow, they always find you. If the FBI was half as successful at keeping tabs on wanted…
by Aaron Withe on February 12, 2024

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on October 27, 2023

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #280: A Great School Rethink
Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, thinks schooling and school reform itself are due for a rethink. In his brief (less than 150 pages,…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on August 4, 2023

Labor Watch
The NEA Cult?
This month, the National Education Association (NEA) held its Representation Assembly (RA) in Orlando, Florida. The last time the RA met entirely in person was in 2019. No surprise that…
by Kali Fontanilla on July 31, 2023

CRC in the News
Correcting Vice President Harris’s Lie About Florida’s Black History Curriculum
In her appearance on Fox News, CRC’s Kali Fontanilla corrects Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent lie about Florida’s academic standards. Harris twisted one line—“how slaves developed skills which, in some…
by Kali Fontanilla on July 26, 2023

Labor Watch
Legislation Against Politicization
U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald’s newly introduced STUDENT Act—the “Stopping Teachers Unions from Damaging Education Needs Today” Act—would, among other things, amend the National Education Association’s (NEA’s) federal charter to prohibit…
by Michael E. Hartmann on July 25, 2023