Public schools are supposed to be about kids, not the people running them. Public support of education is about improving the nation’s human capital stock and helping meet the equalitarian ideals that our founding fathers so eloquently proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence.
Higher Education
Who Teaches the Teachers?
Every state requires public school teachers to be “certified,” and most of that certification runs through a university school of education. New research by TPPF’s Kate Bierly asks a simple question: is that credential actually worth anything? The answer, backed by decades of data, is no. Teacher training used to happen in “normal schools.” The practical, two-year...
July 23, 2026