Common Core, The Great “Leveler”
Jane Robbins: The latest ACT scores show that Common Core has been a great leveler – just not in the way it was promised.
Author: Jane Robbins
Jane Robbins is a senior fellow at American Principles Project, an attorney, and the co-author of the upcoming book Deconstructing the Administrative State: The Fight for Liberty.
What Data Are Colleges Collecting on Our Kids?
Jane Robbins: Individuals should be free to accomplish their own dreams by virtue of their unique characteristics. Impersonal algorithms should not block that chance.
Do You Know What Data Is Being Collected On Your Student?
What a Georgia Parent discovered should be a warning to all parents of school-age children: Monitor everything that goes on in the classroom.
Responding to The 74 Jumping on the Social-Emotional Learning Bandwagon
Jane Robbins and Karen Effrem: Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is far more subjective and invasive, and far less effective, than proponents claim. Maybe The 74 should take another look.
How Parents Can Push Back Against Troubling Trends in Education
Jane Robbins: Parents are in charge here, and unless they can show you a state or federal statute requiring you to subject your child to the objectionable mandate, stand your ground.
Will Utah Fight for Parental Control After Feds Deny ESSA Opt-Out Waiver?
Jane Robbins: The clash in Utah is between parents’ inherent right to govern their children’s education and indeed protect them from harm, as explicitly protected by state law, and federal mandates. Guess which won?
Will Altering Growth Mindsets Improve Student Performance? Research Says No.
Jane Robbins: Teachers are encouraged by the education establishment to spend precious class time on “interventions” that create a growth mindset in students and increase their achievement, but a new meta-study finds that such interventions generally don’t work.
Parkland Shooter Was Involved in PROMISE Program
Jane Robbins and Erin Tuttle: Broward County Public Schools has now confirmed that the shooter at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL was indeed assigned to the federally lauded, vehemently protected, but tragically ineffective PROMISE program.
Parents, Be Wary of “Digital Learning”
Jane Robbins and Karen Effrem: Parents demand answers about what “digital learning” is really doing in the classroom, refuse your child’s participation in NAEP if invited, and make it clear that your child is not a guinea pig.
Malkin’s Right: Silicon Valley’s-Beltway Ed Data Mining Has Been Ignored
Jane Robbins and Emmett McGroarty: The politicians vented their outrage about Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, censorship of conservative content, etc., but Michelle Malkin points out, “not a peep was heard about the Silicon Valley-Beltway theft ring purloining the personal information and browsing habits of millions of American schoolchildren.”