The Minnesota Department of Education has released its first draft of K-12 social studies standards for the next ten years, a proposal that omits most of the significant events in American history and focuses, instead, on “systemic racism” and the oppression of “marginalized” people throughout U.S. and Minnesota history.
Democrat wins in the Georgia Senate runoffs would give a Joe Biden administration a clear path to spend billions more in taxpayer dollars on government schools that have already failed low-income students, despite billions already spent on progressive initiatives like the Common Core Standards.
A new website is tracking woke curriculum and liberal indoctrination in schools and invites parents to submit examples from their children’s schools.
Education secretary Betsy DeVos said teachers’ unions’ bid to keep schools closed during the pandemic amounts to “playing politics with children’s lives.”
A U.S. parents’ coalition asserts the indoctrination of students in revisionist history has led to the current battle over the 2020 presidential election.
Joe Biden falsely claimed U.S. schools are unable to open for in-person learning during the pandemic because “they need a lot of money.”
A Brown University economist’s analysis of data on nearly 200,000 children in 47 states has concluded K-12 schools are not “super-spreaders” of the coronavirus.
A survey showed 66-70 percent of likely voters in 5 battleground states support K-12 school choice, which Joe Biden has rejected.
The Mona Shores, Michigan, school board has rescinded its support for the Black Lives Matter movement after a resolution backing it drew the ire of many in the community.
House Republican Reps. Ken Buck and Rick Allen introduced a bill that would ban federal funds for teaching the New York Times’s revisionist “1619 Project.”
U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow said the “1619 Project” is “one of the most significant attempts to propagandize history.”
In an audio clip of a reported conference call between Los Angeles County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer and school officials, Ferrer is heard saying K-12 schools within the county would not be opening until after the election in November.
Chaos and turmoil descended upon one of the largest K-12 public school systems in the suburbs of Buffalo, New York, after Williamsville Central Schools Superintendent Scott Martzloff announced Friday that virtual classes for more than 1,000 students in grades 5-12 would be delayed because 90 staff members took leaves of absence because of coronavirus and more than 100 resigned or retired.
The office of Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) confirmed late Wednesday students and employees of the state’s K-12 schools who refuse to wear masks in the buildings may be faced with a misdemeanor charge.
Two Wall Street Journal reporters write that the national experiment in remote learning, courtesy of the coronavirus pandemic, has failed.
Parents are fully capable of teaching their children at home, said Dr. Kathleen O’Toole, associate provost for Hillsdale College’s K-12 charter school initiative, on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.
A study reveals a historic drop in U.S. student reading and math scores since the adoption of the Common Core standards more than a decade ago.
Teachers’ unions and other stakeholders in government-run K-12 schools are seeking billions of dollars in funding in coronavirus relief.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has released resources for K-12 teachers and local officials on managing student privacy and ensuring disabled students receive required services during school closures due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Washington parents are fighting a Democrat bill that would mandate LGBTQ-focused sex ed for children, including kindergartners.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced Friday he is officially putting an end to the Common Core Standards in his state and replacing them with standards that “embrace common sense.”
A U.S. Education Department investigation has initially revealed $1.3 billion in unreported donations to U.S. universities from foreign countries such as China, Russia, and Qatar.
A Wisconsin elementary school canceled a first-grade Thanksgiving play due to concerns about the “accuracy of the first Thanksgiving story” and “sensitivity of this time in our history.”
Teachers across America are striving to have their students “unlearn” what progressive activists say is nothing more than a “feel-good” Thanksgiving “myth.”
Results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card, shows U.S. school children have made “no progress” in reading or mathematics over the past ten years.
As the school year begins, many districts are focused on social and emotional learning, and how to create “trauma-sensitive” classrooms.
The California Education Department’s model Ethnic Studies Curriculum plans to teach children that capitalism is a “system of power” and “oppression” and equal to “white supremacy,” “patriarchy,” and “racism.”
Amidst the bleak news from a poll that found only 24 percent of 18 to 29 year olds are “extremely proud to be an American” comes a literary ray of hope from the heartland.
A Maine Republican sponsored legislation that would forbid teachers from endorsing political candidates and from using their classrooms as bully pulpits for ideological advocacy.
A new study released Monday finds the most popular education topic today is social and emotional learning (SEL), which amounts to the “psychological training of children starting at a young age.”
