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  • Parents, If We’re Going to Have Smart Government—Teach Your Kids Civics

    Parents, If We’re Going to Have Smart Government—Teach Your Kids Civics0

    In the fall of 2012, I excitedly began my senior year government class. I was about to sit through a course on our system of government while also watching it play out right before my eyes on its biggest stage during the 2012 election. Much to my chagrin, nobody else seemed even remotely as thrilled.

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  • Parents, Educators, Doctors Join Trump in New Push to Reopen Schools

    Parents, Educators, Doctors Join Trump in New Push to Reopen Schools0

    Dr. Melanie McGraw Piasecki is both a pediatrician and a mother of three who wants to see kids back in school after the COVID-19 lockdown that shuttered classrooms in the spring and is on the cusp of doing so this fall across the country. “My children did not have a particularly great experience in the

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  • Parents Want a Complete Overhaul of the Education System

    Parents Want a Complete Overhaul of the Education System2

    In the wake of COVID-19, people now overwhelmingly believe that the education system’s broader purpose needs to be rethought. This begins with a shift away from standardized testing, college prep and a one-size-fits-all model and toward personalized curricula, practical skills and subject mastery. A new Purpose of Education Index survey released by the Massachusetts-based national

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  • Parents Versus Tyranny in Virginia Schools

    Parents Versus Tyranny in Virginia Schools3

    Virginia once took pride in her sons, especially Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. The first was, of course, the main author of the Declaration of Independence, and Madison is known as the Father of the Constitution. Apparently, that pride now lies as still in the grave as those Founding Fathers. Suparna Dutta, a mother, an

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  • Parents Stand Up for Children in ‘Sex Ed Sit Out’

    Parents Stand Up for Children in ‘Sex Ed Sit Out’0

    Parents across the country pulled their children out of public schools on Monday for the “Sex Ed Sit Out”—a grassroots awakening of frustrated parents who are sick of the sexualization of children in their taxpayer-funded schools. The Sex Ed Sit Out was conceived by Elizabeth Johnston, who blogs at Activist Mommy, and other moms on

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  • Parents Should Spoil Their Children… with Books

    Parents Should Spoil Their Children… with Books0

    Have you ever noticed that more and more parents seem to be spoiling their children? But according to Naomi Schaefer Riley, there is one area in which parents should be encouraged to spoil their children. That area is books. As Riley implies, good parenting so often involves saying “no” to the demands and desires of

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