by Lil Tuttle | Oct 5, 2015 | Education
As liberals begin their national promotion for universal childcare – their next Obamacare-style big government policy proposal – a group of university researchers released a study on outcomes of the largest government-organized universal child care program in North...
by Lil Tuttle | Sep 8, 2015 | Education
In the Institute's latest Policy Express, Restoring American Education, education researcher Joy Pullman argues that "the American mind is unwell." Despite almost unlimited public spending, our present K-12 education system is failing to prepare American...
by Lil Tuttle | Sep 2, 2015 | Education
Earlier this year, a CBLPI-supported campus lecture on feminism by Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers erupted in a firestorm of controversy when a few students held up 'trigger warning' signs and organized a 'safe space' for potentially offended students to...
by Lil Tuttle | Aug 27, 2015 | Education, Policy Paper
By Joy Pullman The American mind is unwell. Take any number of evidences. The rate of adults and children taking psychiatric drugs and receiving welfare because of this has skyrocketed since the 1980s, as Robert Whitaker has chronicled in Anatomy of an Epidemic....
by Lil Tuttle | Jan 27, 2015 | Education
“More than 11,000 rallies and events focusing on school choice are planned this week across the country” to celebrate National School Choice Week (NSCW), reports Mary Lou Byrd. Economist Milton Friedman first advanced the concept of K-12 education vouchers...
by Lil Tuttle | Jan 23, 2015 | Education
In a thought-provoking essay, veteran English teacher Michael Godsey writes that he doesn’t teach much “wisdom” in his high school classes anymore, and he wonders who does now that the Common Core has taken hold in public schools. Secular wisdom in...