Pro-Palestine in the Classroom
On December 6, 2023, teachers in Oakland, California, held a pro-Palestine teach-in for their students—with the support of the Oakland Education Association, the local teachers union. More than 100 teachers…
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Back to School: A Guide for Parents in Today’s Public Schools
Concerned parents have no choice but to be involved in their children's education. Gone are the days of dropping kids off on the first day of school and trusting that…
From the Ordinary to the Opulent: A Look at Union Buildings in the District
Unions claim to represent the common worker, advocating for fair wages, safe working conditions, and just treatment. However, reality often tells a different story. The massive, expensive headquarters of these…
Black Lives Matter Is a Political Movement and Does Not Belong in Our Nation’s Schools
Many Americans have long held the belief that our nation’s government schools should be free from political indoctrination, but what does it mean to have a politically neutral public school…
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…
Title IX Turned Upside Down
New Title IX regulations are the catalyst to undo the work the law initially aimed to protect. The proposed revisions to Title IX unveiled by the Biden Administration would include…
The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children: The First Formal Sex Ed
Since its inception, sex education classes in our public schools have been a source of controversy. This fight over the sex education of our children has become more intense than…
The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children: Since the Sexual Revolution
Then came the 1960s and the Sexual Revolution. Many attribute the Sexual Revolution to the birth control pill approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1960. At the…
The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children: What’s Best for the Kids
It is often assumed that kids want less rules, more freedom, more sex, etc. But that’s not what I heard from students as a public middle school teacher. They hated…
The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children: Are There Any Solutions?
Rather than push pleasure-based fringe perversions on children who don’t want it, schools should go back to what sex ed was originally designed for, such as the Family Life Education…