PoliticsCommentary
We Hear You: ‘Education Is Too Important to Leave to Professionals’
Editor’s note: Count on The Daily Signal’s audience to have a lot to say on the state of public education and other topics, as this… Read More
EducationCommentary
Nation’s Report Card Shows Why We Should Get Washington Out of Education
Across the country, math and reading scores have continued a yearslong stagnation, with students largely showing no progress in academic achievement. That’s one major takeaway… Read More
EducationNews
Nation’s Report Card ‘Must Be America’s Wake-Up Call,’ Betsy DeVos Says
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos criticized the state of American students’ education Wednesday, saying the United States is in a “student achievement crisis.” DeVos referred to… Read More
Education Analysis
Problematic Women: How Big Government Education Programs Failed the Young
This week on “Problematic Women” we talk with Lindsey Burke, The Heritage Foundation’s education fellow, about a new collection of essays, “The Not-So-Great Society.” Burke,… Read More
EducationNews
Why LBJ’s Great Society Gets a Failing Grade in Improving Education
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s vision for a Great Society unleashed an army of bureaucrats on American schools but produced little or no improvements to public… Read More
EducationCommentary
How 1 Woman Helped DC’s Underprivileged Kids Find School Success
When Virginia Walden Ford crossed the threshold of her new high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, as one of the second wave of black students… Read More
EducationCommentary
How ‘the Road Less Traveled’ on Teacher Certification Makes ‘All the Difference’ in Arizona
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / and sorry I could not travel both. / And be one traveler, long I stood / And… Read More
EducationCommentary
Americans Deserve Better Schools
With most services, you get to shop around, but rarely can you do that with government-run schools. Philadelphia mom Elaine Wells was upset to learn… Read More
EducationCommentary
Memo to Teachers Unions: Charter Schools Clearly Benefit Students
When Morgan Waldrop started high school, academics weren’t much of a priority. “It wasn’t even a goal of mine to be at the top of my class,” Waldrop says…. Read More
EducationCommentary
America’s Children Need Universal School Choice Now More Than Ever
What social institutions have the most immediate and strongest impact on a child’s development and well-being? According to researchers for the Pew Charitable Trust’s Economic… Read More
