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Dear Colleague,
Welcome back. We are excited to share the latest from The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy.
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Washington Examiner, Jason Bedrick
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Education choice is on the march. So far this year, four states have enacted education choice policies that will be available to all K-12 students. Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, and Utah have now joined Arizona and West Virginia in making every child eligible for education savings accounts or ESA-like policies that allow families to choose the learning environments that align with their values and work best for their children. "The education choice movement has already made more progress this year than ever before—and the year is far from over," Jason Bedrick writes.
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The Daily Signal, Rachel Alexander Cambre
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In his rousing keynote address at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary gala last month, then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson offered an unexpected piece of advice: "Don’t throw away your hard-copy books." Unlike digitized books, films, and albums that can be canceled, rewritten, or vanished altogether, physical copies are "the enduring repository that cannot be disappeared." "With their resurrection of poetry recitation requirements, educators in Georgia and Arkansas are protecting that repository in more ways than one, steeping students in a reality they can affirm, trust, and love," Rachel Alexander Cambre explains.
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The Daily Signal, Adam Kissel
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Parents in the pandemic era have asserted themselves with new vigor for the sake of their children. "Parents no longer presume that the zoned public school is the right fit, or that the school puts students first. Nor do parents presume that most teachers wish to reproduce the values of the community. Since 2020, Americans’ satisfaction with K-12 education has plummeted," Adam Kissel argues.
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Goldwater Institute, Jonathan Butcher
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The next battle in the nation’s culture wars is being waged over normally mundane processes: choosing K-12 academic standards. "The struggle has shifted to the Midwest, where families and school officials in South Dakota and Minnesota are heading in opposite directions over classroom content, making one wonder if the classes on American history in these states are even teaching students about the same country," Jonathan Butcher writes.
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Law & Liberty, Rachel Alexander Cambre
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In his keynote address at the National Symposium for Classical Education in February, Daniel Scoggin, co-founder of the classical charter school network Great Hearts Academies, traced the decline of classical education in America back to liberal ideas of the Enlightenment, ideas that, in his telling, unleashed an individualism, industrialism, and relativism antithetical to any education oriented to truth, beauty, and goodness. "Yet Scoggin delivered his talk at a conference that celebrated the remarkable growth classical education has enjoyed in America over the past decade, due in large part to the art of association that has long been closely intertwined with American individualism and to the extraordinary success of the school choice movement, which is rooted in liberal ideas of the Enlightenment, " Rachel Alexander Cambre explains.
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The Daily Signal, Jonathan Butcher and Robert Moffitt
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America’s schoolchildren suffered grievously from prolonged school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. That was a rare point of consensus at the March 28 hearing of the newly created House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, transcending the standard, tiresome, and transparently partisan criticisms of the Biden and Trump administrations’ pandemic performance. "To improve America’s response to the next pandemic, the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, emphasized that complete honesty in our post-pandemic assessments is nonnegotiable and must be grounded in the best and most accurate data," Jonathan Butcher and Robert Moffitt write.
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The Daily Signal, Jonathan Butcher
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Arkansas lawmakers delivered a clear message to parents of K-12 students: You have the right to know how your child is being treated in school. "Lawmakers in New Jersey, California, and hundreds of other school districts across the U.S. operating under policies that do the opposite and allow school officials to hide information about children from their parents should prepare to receive an influx of student-transfer requests, " Jonathan Butcher argues.
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Wall Street Journal, Jason Bedrick
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The breakthrough finally has arrived. In the past two years, six states enacted education choice policies that are now available to all K-12 students, or soon will be. "Friedman’s revolution is under way," Jason Bedrick writes.
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reimagineED, Jonathan Butcher
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Now, as Texas races to catch up with Florida and adopt the next education savings account proposal, (Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an education savings account expansion into law on March 27, 2023), South Carolina families will be eyeing the calendar to see how much time state legislators have left this year to give students hope for the future. "Since state officials have proposals for all the different options, there is no need to choose just one," Jonathan Butcher explains.
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Conservative Perspectives on Educational Reform
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023 from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm (EDT)
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The Havel Dialogue is one effort by The Heritage Foundation to support the right circumstances for truth to flourish. Through this Havel Dialogue session, we aim to explore the methods to enhance student achievement and opportunity in both America and Europe through the focusing lens of conservative principles.
To discuss these topics in our May 9 session, Heritage welcomes:
- Lindsey Burke, PhD, Director, Center for Education Policy, The Heritage Foundation
- Ignasi Grau, General Director of Oidel, the International Organization for the Right to Education and Freedom of Education
- Hosted by Ted R. Bromund, PhD, Senior Research Fellow in Anglo-American Relations, The Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, The Heritage Foundation
- Special Virtual Introduction by Kevin Roberts, PhD, President of The Heritage Foundation
This is a virtual event. Please RSVP as soon as possible to Jordan Embree, [email protected].
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