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Education, Parents and Kids
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What the Long School Closures of 2020 and 2021 Taught ParentsThe closures showed parents who really decides when schools open, and many of them never trusted the system the same way again. Janus v. AFSCME for Teachers, Eleven Questions About Union FeesSince Janus v. AFSCME no public school teacher can be forced to pay a union as a job condition. Eleven plain answers on dues, opt-outs and the contract. How Teacher Unions Won the Right to Bargain, and What FDR Warned AboutEven Franklin Roosevelt doubted that collective bargaining belonged in government. How public-sector unions rose, and why bargaining with electees differs. The New Math of 1960 Flopped, and Today's Math Fights Keep Repeating ItAfter Sputnik, reformers taught set theory to seven-year-olds and parents could not help with homework. The pattern returned, and so did the lesson. Is Your Child Being Taught to Read With Phonics? A Parent's ChecklistA parent can learn in one afternoon whether a school teaches systematic phonics or leans on guessing, and what to do if it does not. Ten steps. Homeschooling Went From Legal Gray Zone to Legal in Fifty States by 1993In the 1970s a homeschooling parent could be prosecuted for truancy. By 1993 every state recognized the right, thanks to ordinary families, not Washington. Common Core Was Voluntary on Paper, Here Is How Washington Made It StickFederal law forbids Washington to direct curriculum, yet most states adopted the same standards within two years. Grants and waivers did what statute forbade. Should Schools Tell Parents? The Case for Notification PoliciesWhen a school treats a child differently over name and identity, parents are owed notice. The law, the tradition, the safety objection answered with care. Ending Gifted Programs in the Name of Equity Hurts the Kids It Claims to HelpClosing gifted classes and delaying algebra removes the ladder from able children whose parents cannot buy tutors. The evidence, the TJ case, the objection. Head Start's Gains Faded by Third Grade, What the Federal Study FoundThe government's own randomized study found Head Start's early gains mostly gone by third grade. What it measured, what it missed, and what it means for pre-K. Milton Friedman's 1955 Voucher Essay and Its Seventy-Year RoadA 1955 essay split who pays for schooling from who runs the schools, and almost every school choice program since descends from that one distinction. German and Swiss Apprenticeships Compared With the American PathGermany and Switzerland pay teenagers to learn a trade with an employer, while America funnels most toward degrees. What compares, and what fits federalism. How DEI Offices Grew on Campus and What Closing Them RequiresDiversity bureaucracies spread into hiring, training and student life, and states that closed them learned a statute must reach functions, not names. Grad PLUS Was a Blank Check for Graduate School, and Here Is the ProofGrad PLUS let Washington lend up to the full cost of attendance with no cap, so programs had little reason to hold prices down. The record, and the 2025 end. Campus Sex-Misconduct Hearings and the Due Process the 2011 Letter RemovedSerious accusations deserve serious process for both sides. How the 2011 letter pushed colleges toward a system neither side could trust, and what fixed it. The 2014 School Discipline Guidance and the Commission That Withdrew ItA 2014 federal letter warned of racially disparate discipline and many schools cut suspensions regardless of conduct. The 2018 reversal and the case for order. School Safety That Works, Lessons From the Parkland and Uvalde ReviewsOfficial reviews of Parkland and Uvalde found failures of doors, communication and command. Here is what they found and what parents can ask a district to show. Every School Teaches Morals, the Only Question Is Which OnesNo school is morally neutral, because rules on honesty and cheating are moral teaching. The real question is which virtues, taught on what foundation. Curriculum Transparency Laws, What They Require and Why They Help TeachersA curriculum transparency law asks schools to post what they teach. Here is what bills require, the objections answered, and how to use one well. The 1619 Project in the Classroom and the Historians Who ObjectedThe 1619 Project's claim about the Revolution drew a letter from five leading historians. Here is the case for it, the answer, and honest teaching. The Trivium Explained, Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric for a Modern ChildClassical education is a sequence matched to how children learn: facts first, then argument, then persuasion. Here is what it is and how to judge a school. The Charter School Lottery Studies and What They Show About CitiesAdmission lotteries let researchers compare winners and losers like a trial, and urban charters did well where freedom came with accountability. Your ZIP Code Picks Your Child's School, the Case for Open EnrollmentAttendance zones let housing prices ration good schools, and open enrollment opens the door to families who cannot afford the house. Tax-Credit Scholarships, the Choice Program Built on Private DonationsA tax-credit scholarship moves no appropriated money, which is why it survived lawsuits that sank other choice programs, and Congress has now copied it.
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