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Schools in the UK allow students to identify as cats, horses and dinosaurs!

They told us in the US that students identifying as animals was a hoax. If it’s happening in the UK, does anyone really believe it’s not happening here? Difficult as it may be to believe, children at a school in East Sussex were reprimanded last week for refusing to accept a classmate’s decision to self-identify as a cat. The Year 8 pupils were told they would be reported to a senior...

“Fewer than 18% of 11th-grade Black male students were proficient in math”

You would think Black Lives Matter would care about this, but God forbid they criticize public education. If a charter school produced stats like these, the leftists would be howling to shut it down. Note the goal for Black male students: to have only 1/3 score an A or B in Algebra I! Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations. Math assessments, discussed during Des Moines School Board...

Why DEI must be opposed in education

Because the endgame is always the same: bring everyone down to the lowest level in order to achieve “equity”: San Diego’s largest high school, Patrick Henry High School, has cut some honors courses without informing the student’s parents. As expected, parents are outraged and worries the lack of honors courses will hurt students chances of getting accepted to prestigious universities...

Public school teachers sexually abuse more children than priests

From CBS News, of all places: Consider the statistics: In accordance with a requirement of President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, in 2002 the Department of Education carried out a study of sexual abuse in the school system. Hofstra University researcher Charol Shakeshaft looked into the problem, and the first thing that came to her mind when Education Week reported on the study were the daily...

How the woke are ruining math in our schools

As the New York Times reports, “testing results regularly show that math students in the United States are lagging behind those in other industrialized nations. And within the country, there is a persistent racial gap in achievement.” And the traditional approach to math creates the appearance of a conflict between these two real problems: To improve math education, we need to better tailor the...

Big win against CRT in North Carolina

The controversial program itself was small, targeted only at disabled preschoolers, but it’s a big win because conservative activists forced the State Superintendent (who heads our state Dept. of Education) to publicly back down: National media took aim at North Carolina Education officials this week after groups including Education First Alliance (EFA) called for defunding the state's...

The next battle: curriculum transparency for parents

It is hard to think of anyone bringing more positive change to public education than Chris Rufo. His latest proposal is pure brilliance; how can anyone object to transparency? At a minimum, parents should be able to know what’s being taught to their children in the classroom. Transparency is a virtue for all of our public institutions, but especially for those with power over children. To that...

Democrats lost in Virginia because of school closures, CRT not so much

From Byron York’s Daily Memo: So now, Democratic pollsters are doing some basic research. Why did voters reject McAuliffe? What, specifically, did he do wrong? Recently, a Democratic firm, ALG Research, which served as the top pollster for President Joe Biden's campaign, asked those questions in focus groups in the Northern Virginia suburbs and in Richmond. Some of the answers they found...

Yglesias on how Democrats are screwing up on ed policy

You can smell the panic in the air; even a renowned lefty like Matt Yglesias is admitting that the Democrats’ stance on education is a losing one. It’s a good read; summary posted below. Have I mentioned how much I am looking forward to the 2022 election? It’s shaping up to be a bloodbath. This is an enormous issue that warrants (at least) a two-part post. Today’s is about three...

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