Most Americans presume that parents have the primary responsibility to raise and educate their children—and that the government should generally not interfere with parents’ childrearing practices except in cases of abuse or neglect. Yet parental rights are increasingly being threatened on a number of fronts, both in principle and in practice.

A North Texas school board president has vindicated allegations made by outraged parents that elements of a controversial leftist cultural plan—which promotes agendas such as the LGBTQ movement—was already being implemented despite citizen objection and the board postponing approval.

A North Texas school board president has vindicated allegations made by outraged parents that elements of a controversial leftist cultural plan—which promotes agendas such as the LGBTQ movement—was already being implemented despite citizen objection and the board postponing approval.

There is a building campaign at Harvard to rescind the degrees of Trump officials and allies including White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX).  This is not the only such effort to retaliate against Trump officials from blacklists to campaigns of harassment.

Americans dismayed by the mendacity and distortions of the 1619 Project are headed for a fall. A commendable desire to counter both civic illiteracy and the excesses of woke ideology has produced a new national movement to mandate history and civics standards. Unfortunately, that strategy will produce the very opposite of its intended effect.

When 2020 passes into the history books, it will carry more superlatives than a high school yearbook — and none of them good. Most deadly, hottest, most stressful, worst.

Many school districts in the United States have opted to switch to virtual learning during the coronavirus pandemic, but some school districts are fighting to preserve in-person learning, with one district finding “every excuse” they can to “stay open.”

One of Joe Biden’s first tests in office will be the urgent question of giving a big pile of money to rich people.

Virtual learning due to the coronavirus pandemic is tanking academic achievement in the largest school system in Virginia, a study from Fairfax County Public School published this week found. Source: Online learning tanked grades, learning in Virginia’s largest school system, study finds

“You don’t just have a partner in the White House,” former Vice President Joe Biden told the National Education Association as he campaigned for the White House in July, “you’ll have an NEA member in the White House.” Source: Remote Learning in Public Schools Is Widening the Achievement Gap | RealClearPolitics