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  • How Can We Stop Serving Students So Poorly?

    How Can We Stop Serving Students So Poorly?1

    In 1942, there were 108,579 public school districts in the United States. By the 2020-21 school year, there were only 13,187. That massive consolidation of school districts was propelled by the belief that economies of scale created by larger school districts would lower costs and serve students better. Those presumed efficiencies have not, however, been demonstrated in practice.

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  • The Cult of Safety Explodes

    The Cult of Safety Explodes3

    It was the 1970s. Dry cleaning bags lurked quietly behind couches waiting patiently for the opportunity to pounce on the hapless child who dropped a Lego nearby. Unguarded five-gallon buckets stood brazenly in the middle of basement floors hoping to entice their next drowning victim. Discarded refrigerators prowled the land looking for unsuspecting eight-year-olds to

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  • A Call to Battle: Liz Wheeler’s ‘Hide Your Children’

    A Call to Battle: Liz Wheeler’s ‘Hide Your Children’1

    When my wife and I were raising and homeschooling our four children, we faced certain cultural dilemmas just like other parents we knew. Should we let our kids read the Harry Potter books? (Affirmative on that one.) What movies or television shows should we allow them to watch? What sort of friends were they making?

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