By Blake Neff More than half of American high school graduates will be unprepared for college when they get their diplomas, according to newly-released federal standardized test data. Reading ability among high school seniors has been stagnant while math scores have declined, according to new data derived from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)….
About a month ago, I was made aware of an article about a teacher in the US who had been arrested for having sex with some of her students. It’s nothing new, these kind of stories seem to be a cultural phenomenon. The difference with this one is that she was actually sentenced to jail…
Millennials. They may not yet be the present, but they’re certainly the future. These young, uninitiated minds will someday soon become our politicians, doctors, scientists, chefs, television producers, fashion designers, manufacturers, and, one would hope, the new proponents of liberty. But are they ready for it? Time after time, particularly on college campuses, millennials have…
When it comes to holding up the walls of U.S. cannabis prohibition, the government’s D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program has probably done more than just about any other group to provide a good foundation; yet it seems that foundation is crumbling, which means the wall can’t be far behind. D.A.R.E. has removed cannabis from…
Blake Neff Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner harshly condemned Rahm Emanuel Wednesday, denouncing the Chicago mayor as a total failure while suggesting a bold plan for a state takeover of Chicago schools. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has a severe budget deficit of about $480 million. In order to stay afloat, the city government has been forced…
Blake Neff Conservative activist James O’Keefe has released a new undercover video, which he says proves Common Core education standards are simply a play by textbook publishers to make money by selling modified textbooks. O’Keefe’s Project Veritas first released his video Tuesday morning through The Daily Mail. The video shows an undercover Veritas reporter interviewing Diane Barrow, a West Coast sales…
A new undercover video that is part of a series on Common Core shows a sales executive from Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt and others from the educational publishing industry candidly remarking that their industry is “all about the money” and not educating children. The Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt executive actually cackles that she “hates kids” before confirming that he industry…
Mike Rowe made headlines by posting calling presidential candidate Bernie Sanders out on Facebook over his rhetoric on “free” college. Now Rowe has sat down with Reason TV to talk more about the true cost of college Related: Boom! Headshot! Mike Rowe BLASTS Bernie Sanders Rowe blasted Sanders on Facebook, writing: Bernie Sanders tweets, “At…
Blake Neff Students at an impoverished school district in Illinois have lost an entire month of school thanks to a strike by teachers which still hasn’t ended. The teacher walkout in East St. Louis, a suburb of the Missouri metropolis, began Oct. 1 when teachers rejected a deal that would have given them $2,000 apiece and…
Zuckerberg’s Money Won’t Solve Government Schooling Problems by Josh Guckert In an article for The Wall Street Journal published on Monday, James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley wrote about the results of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s gift of $100 million to Newark public schools. The short answer: “not much” has changed. Zuckerberg, working in conjunction with New Jersey…