Agency: Giving Kids and Their Caregivers Hope for the Future
Ian Rowe is an optimist, and that shines through in his new book, "Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for All Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their…
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #229: Agency with Ian Rowe
We’ve heard a great deal lately about education in America, from discussions about school choice post-COVID restrictions to whether curriculum is being developed that helps children learn to succeed at…
Woke Mental Health
Wokeism has started leeching into the mental health professions, blurring the lines between treating people and enabling them. In fact, the culture of woke in academia is referred to as…
Foundations Destroying American Public Education: The Hydra
The world of K–12 education policy has long been dominated by philanthropic foundations. Much of the education “reform” sweeping across America has been financed and pushed by elite, well-heeled foundations.
Foundations Destroying American Public Education: Equity Initiatives
The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones’s 2019 New York Times series turned grade school curriculum, might never have seen the light of day if not for the MacArthur Foundation. In 2014,…
Foundations Destroying American Public Education: Education
The world of K–12 education policy has long been dominated by philanthropic foundations. It was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that pushed for Common Core, the national education standards…
Foundations Destroying American Public Education: Youth Activism
The foundations’ goals are political, and schools give them easy access to society’s most impressionable. But foundations relentlessly seek to shape children’s politics both inside and outside of the classroom.
Foundations Destroying American Public Education: Two Steps Ahead
K–12 schools are run by thirteen thousand independent school districts, but foundations have also perfected the art of implementing national political agendas through local government. Financially, this is a brilliant…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #195: How Teachers Unions Affect Elections
Liberal special interests have effective control of many municipal governments and government arms. The most notable case: school boards. Thanks to “three exploits” of block voting, nonpartisan races, and off-cycle…
Federally Funded Groups Targeting Republican Governors over School Mask Policies
In a profound display of Orwellian doublespeak, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently announced a lawsuit in favor of restricting civil liberties. The lawsuit was filed against the state…