I’m the father of two adult sons who are thankfully out of the K-12 educational system. I say thankfully because I found education inherently anxiety-inducing. Turning your kids over to a school for years is no simple thing and my own ambivalent memories as a student didn’t help. I’m pretty sure it’s always been this […]
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed legislation on Saturday that will provide scholarships to K-12 students who choose nonpublic education. H.B. 215 funds yearly grants of up to $8,000 per student (with some adjustments for inflation) that families may use to pay for tuition, textbooks, tutoring services, curricula, software, and other educational needs. Both houses of […]
Perhaps the best endorsement of our family’s decision to homeschool our son was his admission to five of the eight colleges to which he applied, with each offering a merit scholarship. While our tour through charters, homeschooling, and private schools—along with observation of others’ experience with traditional public schools—had convinced us of the academic advantages […]
An “unbearable bleakness” has overtaken childhood education as a “pedagogy of the depressed” pushes a simplistic vision of “America the Problematic” on impressionable young students, wrote Robert Pondiscio in Commentary last year. A former teacher, Pondiscio is currently a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of the 2019 book How the […]
When then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and the entire New York City political and educational establishment unveiled in September 2018 a trailblazing new middle-school Diversity Plan that radically changed the admissions criteria for Brooklyn’s District 15 in the name of racial “equity,” they chose the most symbolic possible site for the announcement: M.S. 51, the William […]
Right in the middle of National School Choice Week, conservative politicians and regulators in Florida are fighting against the introduction of a black history class that would help high school students earn college credit. Florida conservatives are telling families who support school choice that they can’t even choose their kids’ classes. The College Board is […]
Have you ever noticed that most of the schools we see in movies and TV, read about in novels, or even hear about in songs are terrible, rotten places where you’re likely to get pig blood dumped on you at prom, punched out on the playground, or humiliated by classmates and teachers alike? We take for […]
“Brown v. Board of Ed ultimately was never about black kids getting into a white school. It was always about ultimately a parent being able to decide where their children should attend school,” Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears tells me in today’s Reason Interview podcast. She is one of the driving forces behind a new […]
The Biden administration is frequently accused of hostility to school choice—or at least to choice for families that can’t afford to pay private tuition on top of taxes for government institutions. In their defense, the president’s allies claim they favor options but want to ensure that such schools are accountable for the dollars they spend […]
In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie discuss the Facebook Files, which revealed the considerable influence the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) wielded in regard to what users were allowed to say on Meta platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. 0:55: The CDC silenced COVID-19 […]