Education choice is of utmost importance to children around the country. Every parent wants to give their student the chance to succeed. But pursuing parent choice on a nationwide scale with a federal tax credit scholarship poses significant risks, both to existing state options and ongoing conservative efforts to keep Washington within its proper scope of authority. Sen. Ted ...

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I’m starting to sour on “authentic engagement” of kids in civic education, a concept I’ve long supported, and occasionally supervised and even led as a teacher. Preparing young people for active and engaged citizenship is an essential and neglected purpose of public education. How best to cultivate these qualities in school, however, is far from settled. In some circles, it ta...

Here is a man-bites-dog story for you. The Democrats just voted against free college for all. On Feb. 27, Democrats in New Hampshire defeated House Bill 673, which would have allocated $100,000 to cover the cost of students taking exams for free college credit. The bill was defeated by a vote of 202-141, with 199 Democrats “opposed” and only four in favor. The bill was propose...

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/* custom css */ .tdi_10_8cc{ min-height: 0; } /* custom css */ .tdi_12_f8a{ vertical-align: baseline; } Spain’s former Secretary of State for Education Montse Gomendio is out with a book drawing on her experience, titled Dire Straits-Education Reforms: Ideology, Vested Interests and Evid...

On Monday, Melania Trump visited a charter school in Tulsa, The Dove School of Discovery, to promote her Be Best initiative. Turkey’s state-run broadcaster, TRT World, claimed after the visit that the school is linked to Turkish cleric Fetullah Gulen, an opponent of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Emily Heil writes in the Washington Post that Turkish media and obs...

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