InfluenceWatch Friday
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education
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,…
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…
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…
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…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #277: Socialists in the Classroom
As bad and left-wing as teachers unions can be, for some union activists and leftist agitators the normal level of leftism just isn’t enough. For that reason, the Democratic Socialists…
CRC Welcomes New Education Research Fellow Kali Fontanilla
Capital Research Center (CRC) welcomes Kali Fontanilla as a new research fellow, teacher, and critic of all things woke. Fontanilla, a former public high school teacher of 15 years, and…
The SPLC’s Readymade Lessons for Teaching Radicalism in the Classroom
Despite the education crisis in America, teachers are taking precious time in the classroom to deliver lessons steeped in leftist narratives and agendas. The source of this political indoctrination is…
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…