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This summer, Illinois became the first state in the nation to require public school students, grades three through twelve, to be screened…
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Charlie Sheen’s HIV diagnosis comes as a great surprise to Hollywood and the rest of the nation. Sheen says that the news…
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Home education is never conventional. Any parent who has accepted the immense challenge of instructing his children at home is familiar with…
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The war on parents has a new name: “adultism.” Some teacher training programs are increasingly portraying parental authority as “oppression”—casting children as…
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The Failure of Government-Run Schools
Thomas Jefferson once said, “An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.” Government-controlled schools seemingly disagree…
Pritzker and Cardona’s Band-Aid for an Educational Hemorrhage
Earlier this week, Governor Pritzker and U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona visited an after-school program at Fairview Elementary School in Springfield. This…