From across the political spectrum, voters rural and urban and suburban, everyone I talk to has a theory about what has gone so wrong with American education. From cellphones to laptops, the culture wars and the pandemic, teacher pay and teacher burnout, weak discipline and bad curriculum to collapsing standards, there are no shortage of...
A recent story in the Houston Chronicle misleads readers about Texas education funding. Let’s set the record straight. School choice doesn’t take a single dollar from public schools. The Texas Education Freedom Accounts program, or TEFA, was funded completely separately through an appropriation from General Revenue. Public school funding is at an all-time high of...
America is in the midst of an education collapse. Declining literacy rates. Falling math scores. Shortened attention spans. And a growing uncertainty is emerging: What should we do? But in Texas, Bluebonnet Learning provides common sense curriculum, serious structure, and a reverence for the Western tradition by giving students a clear sense of what is...