2015 SAT Scores Lowest in Decades

2015 SAT Scores Lowest in Decades

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...
Restoring American Education

Restoring American Education

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....
Celebrating, Demanding School Choice

Celebrating, Demanding School Choice

“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...
Common Core and the Wisdom Deficit

Common Core and the Wisdom Deficit

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...