When homeschooling rates soared during the 2020/2021 school year, no one was shocked. After all, homeschooling was just easier for so many parents than virtual schooling, right? But what educators never saw coming is how many of those parents would not send their kids back to schools when they reopened. As leading school choice advocate…
Florida’s new Parental Rights in Education legislation has been causing an uproar with the mainstream media. The “Don’t Say Gay” bill, as critics call it, prohibits public school teachers from teaching kindergarten to third graders about sexual orientation or gender identity. While the media is saying proponents of the bill are conspiracy theorist, Christopher Rufo…
Our current education system was created when life looked a lot different than it does now. Children were being prepared for a life of factory work, not a life of creativity and innovation. In his latest article for FEE, Paul Boyce points out the numerous ways that the education system is no longer serving our…
The last two years have shown us just how powerful teachers unions can be in shaping our nation’s education system. But whose best interest do these unions really have at heart? 4,500 members of the Minneapolis Teachers Federation and Education Support Professionals are currently on strike to demand higher pay, better working conditions, and smaller…
Is Clark County School District’s new grading policy really helping students? It certainly doesn’t seem like it! When students returned to in person learning in the fall of 2021, the district had implemented a new grading policy that gives every student a minimum of a 50, as well as prohibiting teachers from penalizing students for…
What part have teachers’ unions playing in pandemic-related school closings? That’s what Steven Malanga recently examined in his piece for City Journal. His findings are interesting, showing a direct correlation between strong union areas and strict COVID regulations and school closings. Will politicians take notice of the effect unions are having and open up more…
Not everything to come out of the pandemic is bad. In fact, there’s been some really positive trends in the area of education. Kerry McDonald, FEE Senior Education Fellow, outlined four positive education trends in 2021.
Learning pods emerged at the height of the pandemic as a parents were searching for a way to keep some normalcy for their kids after schools shut down. But a year and a half later, many pods are still going strong. Some parents are wondering if this might be a long term option. Ready why…
What if your mission to choose your child’s learning environment affected more than just you? For one mom of 4, her desire to give her own children a fear-free education turned into an opportunity to help other parents do the same. Jill Perez, a certified middle school teacher for over 20 years, founded a flexible…
The American Rescue Plan (or the COVID stimulus package) awarded over $1 billion to Nevada education. Do you know the DOE’s plan on how they’re going to use the money? Thankfully the plan for the state DOE and individual school districts You can view the state’s plan for using the money here. Individual school districts’s…
