Jonathan Butcher is the Will Skillman fellow in education at The Heritage Foundation and the author of “Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth” (Post Hill Press/Bombardier Books, 2022).
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Sometimes in a compromise, both sides walk away unhappy. That’s exactly what would happen if the Trump administration accepts a compromise measure on school discipline… Read More
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Critics of President Donald Trump said his response to the Florida school shooting earlier this year was ill-conceived and a failure. Yet a new startling… Read More
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A California venture capitalist has gathered enough signatures to put before voters this fall the idea of breaking his state into three. Skeptics say the… Read More
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For the second time in three years, Arizona lawmakers have strengthened laws protecting free speech on public college campuses. In 2016, state lawmakers banned so-called… Read More
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Beth Richardson is committed to her son’s success. She expected Jed to do his homework once in school, so she did her homework first on… Read More
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Kathleen Jones and her family were “trying to figure out the next chapter in their lives.” Her husband spent 28 years in the military, so… Read More
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Inside Higher Ed last week ran an obituary for an idea that was doomed from the start: free speech zones on college campuses. Those zones are… Read More
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As New Hampshire hunkers down for another brutal January, lawmakers are giving families something to look forward to once the snow melts: namely, more opportunities…. Read More
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Two years ago, Christmas came early for Kofi Minor and her daughter, Elisa Thomas. “She was struggling in school,” says Minor, a resident of the… Read More
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The storm of censorship on college campuses continues to swirl around the country. In just the past two weeks, students in Texas sought to shout… Read More
