1+ hour, 38+ min ago  (1499+ words) The stakes for home educators just got much higher. In a ruling that exposes the ideological intolerance now driving education policy in much of the world, a Brazilian court sentenced a mother and father to 50 days in prison for home…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (616+ words) A Brazilian couple was sentenced to 50 days behind bars for the "crime" of homeschooling their children " despite the fact that even the prosecutor in the case eventually requested their acquittal. Audato and Ieda Denardi became "the first parents to be…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (800+ words) The unprecedented measure also purports to force parents to provide government-approved "education." Language ordering homeschoolers to have "equivalent instruction" to government's was removed. But the final bill signed into law by Governor Ned Lamont last week still decrees that parents…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (437+ words) Bots, fabricated "ghost students," and identities of deceased individuals have received billions in taxpayer-funded loans and grants. .. . The post Dead People, Bots, and Phantom Registrants Are Taking Out Student Loans appeared first on The New American. U. S. Secretary of Education Linda…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (695+ words) Conservatives have become vanishingly rare in academia, and even moderates now find themselves marginalized as a fringe group. Data on U. S. faculty ideology from 1969 to 2022 illustrates this shift dramatically: the share of liberals and far-left educators rose from 45% to 74%, while centrists…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (568+ words) Hundreds of University of California (UC) professors have signed an open letter urging the university to resume using standardized-test scores as part of the admissions process for students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). "The current admissions metrics,…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (218+ words) There is a dangerous partnership between Big Government, Big Pharma, Big Psychiatry, and Big Education to label children with diagnoses, drug them, and profit from it all, explains Autistic Freedom Network Founder Sven Scharpen, who experienced it firsthand. In this…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (825+ words) Mass deportations and no more foreign wars are just two of the campaign promises that President Donald Trump has broken, and last week Open The Books (OTB) revealed a third." The president has also failed to slack taxpayer largesse to…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (182+ words) With tax money now flowing toward everything from Islamic schools to home educators, government control over all education is expanding rapidly and it will get worse, warns education policy analyst Lynn Davenport in this interview on Conversations That Matter with…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (352+ words) California's public school system lost seven times more students than projections predicted for this school year. The California Department of Education published a report this week revealing that 75, 000 fewer students were enrolled in the Golden State's government schools this year....