formal teaching of young children by people outside the family or in settings outside the home
Matt Weidinger and Katharine Stevens offer members of Congress an idea that would help families without hurting Uncle Sam’s bottom line. Congress delivered a big win for families in last…
Editors at National Review Online explain how government overregulation has hurt parents’ access to daycare in the nation’s capital. After a four-year legal battle, onerous and unneeded regulations on day-care…
Tom Cotton calls Ibram X. Kendi “a leading agitator for critical race theory.” In May, he will be the headline speaker at one of the nation’s largest early education conferences.
JLF’s Dr. Terry Stoops released a research brief this week on the unusual scenario playing out as the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI) switches the reading proficiency software in…
Who could have predicted that North Carolina educators, lawmakers, and media would spend so much time disputing the reading software selected by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI)? I…
Two former Democratic state senators have added their names to the list of those who want to unseat Republican incumbent Thom Tillis in North Carolina’s 2020 U.S. Senate race. Rick…
About two years ago, Gov. Roy Cooper established the Commission on Access to a Sound Basic Education according to Carolina Journal reporter Lindsay Marchello’s most recent article. Marchello reports that…
Brent Orrell of the American Enterprise Institute highlights unintended consequences of the recent academic emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM. Among his key findings: Labor market data…
Employees are getting $1,000 bonuses, and policyholders may also see lower health insurance premium increases in 2019, too. Based on the news release that was just sent to my inbox,…
Katherine Timpf exposes at National Review Online another example of bizarre academic “research.” According to an academic article written by an Australian professor, small chairs in preschools are “problematic” because…
Jane Bone’s “Ghosts of the material world in early childhood education: Furniture matters” published in Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood is, um, fascinating. This philosophically driven work is intended to…