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Articles from the December 30, 2021 edition


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  • Homeschooling will boom long after COVID-19

    Lance Izumi, Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute|Updated Jan 5, 2022

    Public school student enrollment has nosedived as parental disgust with school COVID-19 policies, student learning losses and controversial curricula has gone through the roof. In the wake of this enrollment implosion, homeschooling has boomed across the country. At the beginning of the current school year, the U.S. Department of Education estimated that 1.5 million students had left the public schools since the COVID-19 pandemic began. If students are not enrolling in public schools, where are they going? The numbers show...

  • Parents shouldn't indoctrinate children

    Ritzville Adams County Journal|Updated Jan 5, 2022

    As a university math teacher, then K-12 mentor in afterschool programs for 22 years in retirement, I can assure you that most white students in our country experience more psychological stress and anxiety when learning math than learning anything about U.S. racial history. So, are we supposed to eliminate or “dumb down” (teach less) math in our K-12 education, as many Republican legislators and school board members insist we do teaching racial history, just because they think it might make some white students anxious? It...