Put education into the hands of parents and the free market, and results improve. Public schools and universal compulsory attendance laws are relatively new, yet American literacy rates were exceedingly…
Children are given to parents, not the government. Under the U.S. Constitution’s First and Fourteenth Amendments, the right of parents to choose a unique education for their children should not…
America has 74 million reasons to be concerned about education. That is the approximate number of school-age children in the United States. There are almost 117,000 school-age children in North…
Why schools allowed cell phones to invade the classroom at all remains a mystery to anyone who spends time around teenagers. Yet it’s only now that legislation to ban mobile…
In his first State of the State address given on Tuesday (Jan. 7), North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong said he supports education savings accounts (ESAs), describing them as a way…
The nationwide release of fourth- and eighth-grade student performance in reading and math has been set for Jan. 29, 2025, as announced by the National Assessment Governing Board of the…
The on-again, off-again review of the extent to which North Dakota’s public colleges and universities should rein in the job protections enjoyed by tenured professors is on-again. Any consideration of…
An argument used against expanding educational freedom, particularly in states with large rural populations, is that rural areas don’t benefit from school choice programs. The other argument is that education…
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has called for expanding educational freedom in the state through education savings accounts (ESAs). In his budget address delivered Wednesday, Gov. Burgum reminded North Dakotans…
A recent national survey of more than 20,000 U.S. parents and guardians of K-12 children found that those who send their kids to nonpublic schools or who homeschool are significantly more satisfied…
The U.S. Department of Education has failed its audit for the third year in a row due to accounting errors, reports the department’s Office of Inspector General. The auditors identified errors “in the underlying data used to calculate the…
Happy Thanksgiving! Given that my work focuses on education, I thought it fitting to share a bit about my schooling background, which was filled with many educators who taught me…
One of the most important issues to American parents this voting cycle was education, according to an October poll conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of EdChoice. A national sample…
As calls to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education continue, two questions likely come to mind: Will it happen this time around (there were legislative attempts in 2017 and 2021 to “terminate”…
There has been a surge of popularity for four-day school weeks, particularly in rural districts. Cited reasons for the schedule change include hoping it will boost teacher recruitment and retention,…
A new fall survey of educators has found that the majority of public school teachers support education savings accounts (ESAs), a school choice policy that allows parent-directed dollars to be used toward…