Articles by Jonathan Butcher

Keep Racist Critical Race Theory Ideology Out of K-12 Classrooms

Jonathan Butcher | April 22, 2021

How would you feel if your child came home from school and said her teacher had told her that everything that happens in the world… Read More

EducationCommentary

Biden Administration Wants Schools to Teach Prejudice. Here’s What Parents Should Know.

Jonathan Butcher | April 19, 2021

President Joe Biden’s administration wants you to know your children are biased, and Washington has a plan to fix them. This week, the U.S. Department… Read More

EducationCommentary

West Virginia Families, Students Have New Reason for ‘Hope’ on Educational Options

Jonathan Butcher | March 22, 2021

Thousands of children across West Virginia have new hope for the future. State legislators have approved a proposal that would allow students to use education… Read More

EducationCommentary

The Price Tag for Academia’s ‘Fake Racism’

Jonathan Butcher | March 02, 2021

What happens when we confuse social power with social justice? A trampling of any reasonable definition of fairness, as the fallout from an incident at… Read More

EducationCommentary

Unions Are Keeping Students and Teachers Out of the Classroom. Here’s What Lawmakers Can Do About It.

Jonathan Butcher | February 16, 2021

President Joe Biden’s administration pledged that at least half of K-12 schools in the U.S. will offer in-person learning at least one day per week… Read More

EducationCommentary

Why Action Civics Is More Action Than Civics: K-12 Students Aren’t Ready to Be Activists

Jonathan Butcher | February 08, 2021

Educators and policymakers agree that the teaching of civics in K-12 schools is not preparing children to participate in civic life. There’s broad agreement among… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Feeling Guilty About Everything? Thank Critical Race Theory

Jonathan Butcher | December 07, 2020

Noxious Marxist theories that have festered in academia for decades finally burst out of ivy-covered walls in 2020, invading all aspects of American life. It… Read More

EducationCommentary

In Staying Closed, Schools Ignore Low COVID-19 Rates, Needs of Families

Jonathan Butcher | October 21, 2020

At what would normally be the end of the first academic quarter for most K-12 schools, millions of students still have not set foot in… Read More

EducationCommentary

History Comes to Call: The 1619 Project Cannot Deny Its Own Past

Jonathan Butcher | September 23, 2020

History is a harsh mistress when trifled with. Newspaper writers and editors make a profession of turning the present into history, and they acknowledge the… Read More

EducationCommentary

Looking Back: Reclaiming Educational Excellence

Jonathan Butcher | September 08, 2020

This article is an excerpt from the “2020 Mandate for Leadership: A Clear Vision for the Next Administration.” It looks back at policy decisions made… Read More

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