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  • School Security Is Now a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry. Is There a Better Way to Protect Children?

    School Security Is Now a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry. Is There a Better Way to Protect Children?0

    U.S. taxpayers spend nearly $700 billion each year on K-12 public schooling and that eye-popping sum shows no sign of slowing. In fact, as more non-academic programs get adopted in schools across the country, the price-tag for mass schooling continues to swell even as achievement lags.   One ballooning school expenditure is the vast amount

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  • School Reform is Missing a Key Ingredient

    School Reform is Missing a Key Ingredient0

    The last several decades have seen Americans wake up to the fact that their schools are failing. Nowhere is this more apparent than in student performance on national and international tests. Such results have caused American educators and policy makers to flounder around trying to find a way to set American students back on track;

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  • School Kids Don’t Need ‘Wiggle Chairs.’ They Need a Real Recess.

    School Kids Don’t Need ‘Wiggle Chairs.’ They Need a Real Recess.0

    It isn’t easy being a kid these days: the school day has changed a great deal since the current generation of grade school kids’ parents were in school. With a greater emphasis on school work and testing, something in the school day had to disappear to make way for the focus on more academic pursuits

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  • School Grades Enter the ‘Everyone-Gets-a-Trophy’ World

    School Grades Enter the ‘Everyone-Gets-a-Trophy’ World1

    Summer has long been the season for local community sports and contests. In recent years, these contests have been particularly marked by the everyone-gets-a-trophy mentality where each individual gets recognition and a prize for their time and effort. For better or worse, that mentality may now be expanding beyond the summer community center and into

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  • School Earns Money by Ditching National Lunch Program

    School Earns Money by Ditching National Lunch Program0

    A year ago, Minnesota’s Prior Lake High School made waves when it announced it would not participate in the National School Lunch Program during the 2015-2016 school year. At that time, the Star Tribune reported the school district’s reasoning as follows: “Prior Lake High School is just the third Minnesota school to withdraw from the

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  • School Dress Codes = ‘Slut Shaming’? Give Me a Break

    School Dress Codes = ‘Slut Shaming’? Give Me a Break0

    Lately, stories have been appearing in the news of young women who are outraged that their school required them to change their clothing or go home. The narrative typically heard is that school policies are sexist and prioritize boys being undistracted (by not seeing immodest dress in the classroom) over girls being allowed to learn

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