Why is empowering parents in K-12 education so controversial?
As I have written before, the debate over school choice is often framed as an “either/or” argument — either you are for empowering parents or you are a supporter of public…
As I have written before, the debate over school choice is often framed as an “either/or” argument — either you are for empowering parents or you are a supporter of public…
There is no doubt that teachers’ unions have a vested interest in the American public school system. As the exclusive representative of the system’s key employees — teachers — and…
Dickinson State University has become the latest institution of higher education to announce cuts in faculty and major programs due to a downward trend in enrollment and interest among high…
North Dakotans support school choice policies, and such support is not misplaced. There is an increasingly large body of empirical evidence on educational freedom — out of 187 studies analyzed by EdChoice, 84 percent found that…
West Fargo school administrators went to the mat to promote the district’s $147 million bond referendum right up to the opening of polls this week on WZFG and other media…
Question: Why are Fargo test scores going down when spending is going up? Is it A) because academic achievement is not correlated with spending, B) because...
My conversations with families who home educate have revealed their mixed feelings on school choice policies — there are those who want to be included and those who are concerned…
Stanford economist Eric Hanushek has predicted that academic setbacks during COVID-19 could cost each impacted student $70,000 over the course of their careers, or roughly $28 trillion total, reports The 74. “And…
With a new school year just around the corner, and given the tumultuous past couple of school years, it is important for parents and teachers to focus on cultivating a…
Blowback over restrictions in a new state law on how police officers in schools can legally respond to violent incidents hit the fan with the announcement Moorhead Police Department will…
The new school year set to kick off presents an opportunity for a new start for staff, students and families. It also offers opponents of North Dakota’s new parental notification…
A couple of weeks ago someone responded to an article I did on educational freedom, informing me that “school choice is racist.” I initially brushed aside the comment but found…
Private school, homeschool, and charter school parents are more satisfied with their children’s schooling experiences compared to district school parents, according to EdChoice’s national 2023 Schooling in America Survey. Conducted near the…
Likely unbeknownst to many (including me, originally) the National Education Association — the largest teachers’ union in the country — has a federal charter that was issued by the U.S. Congress back…
Seventy percent of the general public believes K-12 education in the country is heading in the wrong direction, according to EdChoice’s 2023 Schooling in America Survey. Compared to views in 2022,…
Today marks what would have been the 111th birthday of American economist Milton Friedman, whose 1955 paper, “The Role of Government in Education” prompted the start of the modern school…