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Dear Colleague,
We are excited to share the latest from The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy.
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Education Freedom Report Card
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Education is a top priority to millions of American families, and parents should be empowered to choose a safe and effective education for their children. To serve that goal, The Heritage Foundation recently published the Education Freedom Report Card, to serve as a guide for assessing education freedom in each state.
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Wall Street Journal, Jason Bedrick
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Parents’ anger at the unions and their allies is about much more than school shutdowns and lack of choice. "Parents are awakening to a fundamental disagreement over the purpose of education," writes Jason Bedrick.
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Washington Times, Lindsey Burke
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Today’s colleges of education have influenced personnel in a way that cements critical race theory and associated ideas like radical gender ideology in K-12 instruction through districts’ hiring of chief diversity officers or CDOs. "States and school districts should break up with these ineffective and divisive institutions and remove requirements for certification conveyed largely through colleges of education," Lindsey Burke writes.
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ReimagineED, Jonathan Butcher
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Claims that the administration was focused on a return to in-person learning are dubious at best. As Jonathan Butcher explains, "No amount of gaslighting can hide the fact that the Biden administration and his union allies put power ahead of student achievement during the pandemic."
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Washington Examiner, Jason Bedrick & Jay Greene
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Last Sunday, the New York Times published a hit piece on yeshivas, the religious schools that serve Orthodox Jewish students. "The piece, rife with half-truths and distortions, was clearly timed to influence a vote by the New York Board of Regents on a proposal to regulate private schools," argue Jason Bedrick and Jay Greene.
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Columbus Dispatch, Jonathan Butcher & Jason Bedrick
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Research finds that students whose schools remained closed to in-person learning longer during the pandemic suffered a greater learning loss than those who returned to classrooms. Scholars and commentators are using words like "devastating" and "failure" to describe the effects of prolonged school closures during the pandemic. Jonathan Butcher and Jason Bedrick write, "Ohio lawmakers should give parents and children more learning options, make coursework more transparent, and reduce the bureaucracy that dictates assigned schools."
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Wall Street Journal, Jason Bedrick
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The Times highlighted about a dozen Hasidic primary schools that fared much worse than public schools on state exams. "But the relevant comparison is to other students who come from homes where English isn’t the primary language. Once we compare apples to apples, the yeshiva results no longer appear exceptional," Jason Bedrick says.
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Fox News, Michael Cunningham and Jonathan Butcher
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As Washington grapples with security threats associated with China’s military modernization and brinkmanship in the Indo-Pacific, it has taken its eyes off subtler threats closer to home. One such threat is Beijing’s infiltration of American educational institutions. Michael Cunningham and Jonathan Butcher write, "China is clearly interested in taking advantage of the abundant resources and materials at colleges and universities in the U.S. The least the Biden administration could do is offer sunlight on just how 'interested' the CCP is."
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The Federalist, Sarah Perry and Jason Bedrick
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New York’s Yeshiva University — an Orthodox Jewish university — filed an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court after a state supreme court judge ordered the school to recognize an LGBT student group in violation of its religious beliefs regarding sexual morality. Sarah Perry and Jason Bedrick explain ask, "Must religious institutions abandon certain core tenets to operate in the public square? That question is at the heart of yet another lawsuit arising from the tensions between religious liberty and anti-discrimination laws."
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National Review, Jay Greene and Frederick Hess
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At too many colleges and universities, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) administrative units now pose a profound threat to free inquiry and academic integrity. Jay Greene and the American Enterprise Institute's Frederick Hess write, "A proper regard for free inquiry and healthy communities dictates that, as the ‘woke’ moment recedes, these DEI bureaucracies be pared back, reined in, or even dismantled."
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Newsweek, Jay Richards and Emilie Kao
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In the last decade and a half, a silent pandemic has spread among American youth: gender dysphoria and a radical medical experiment billed as its proper treatment. Jay Richards and Emilie Kao write, "California is now poised to become a super-spreader—and confused children and their parents across the country will be the victims."
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Heritage Expert Report:
Carson v. Makin Closed the Book on Religious Discrimination in School Choice
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Heritage experts Sarah Parshall Perry and Jonathan Butcher look at how the Supreme Court's ruling in Carson v. Makin was a victory for parents, religious liberty, and school choice.
Read the full report here.
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