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Trump’s Big Bet On Career and Technical Education 0
- Education, Free Style, Front Page, Opinions
- February 16, 2020
Shaun M. Dougherty, Vanderbilt University President Donald Trump has proposed one of the largest increases in funding for career and technical education in recent history. As a education policy researcher who studies the economic and employment impact of career and technical education in high school, I believe this proposal has a lot of potential to
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93 Vermont Towns Have No Public Schools, But Great Education. How Do They Do It?0
- Action for Liberty, Education, Front Page, Opinions
- January 31, 2020
In just a couple of weeks, 50 boys with learning disabilities will take to a stage in Vermont, one after the other, to recite the Gettysburg Address from memory. It’s a daring experiment undertaken each February at the Greenwood School and its population of boys who’ve struggled in public schools. Diagnosed with ADD, dyslexia, and
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Families Today Have More Schooling Options Than Ever, But Nowhere Near Enough 0
- Action for Liberty, Education, Free Style, Front Page, Opinions
- January 28, 2020
I am a glass-half-full kind of person, so while we could focus on the criticisms and some of the setbacks related to expanding educational freedom to more families, there is much more to celebrate than to lament. As National School Choice Week kicks off, it’s a great time to spotlight the growing variety and abundance
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“Miss Virginia” Shows the Dilemma Many Lower-Income Families Face on Schooling 0
- Education, Free Style, Front Page, Gov't Incompetence, Opinions
- January 27, 2020
Every once in awhile, a film comes along that you can’t stop thinking about long after the credits roll. Miss Virginia is such a movie. With superb acting and heart-wrenching emotion, it features the true story of Virginia Walden Ford, a Washington, DC, mom who simply wanted better education options for her child and who
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New Jersey Teachers Prep Lesson Plans On LGBTQ History, Homosexual Persecution During Holocaust 0
- Education, Front Page, Headline News
- January 20, 2020
Mary Margaret Olohaney The curriculum comes after New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a 2019 law requiring all public schools to include LGBTQ lessons in middle school and high school lesson plans, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. New Jersey joins California, Colorado, and Illinois in requiring public schools to teach LGBTQ history. While some educators are testing out the
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An Old Debate Over Religion in School is Opening Up Again 0
- Education, Free Style, Front Page
- January 15, 2020
David Mislin, Temple University As the 2020 election approaches in the United States, President Donald Trump is adding school prayer to the list of contentious issues up for debate. At a rally in early January he announced plans to “safeguard students’ and teachers’ First Amendment rights to pray in our schools.” On the schedule of
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