Larry Sand – American Greatness

The Republic Is Asleep

Larry Sand — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:00:13 +0000

The scale of America’s civic ignorance is staggering. In June, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) conducted a national survey of college students […]

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Taxation With Plenty of Vexation

Larry Sand — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 07:00:28 +0000

The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa sought to open the nation’s first religious public charter school, but in late June, the […]

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California Is Self-Destructing

Larry Sand — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 07:00:09 +0000

Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom gave a 28-minute pre-recorded State of the State address and ominously opined that the state’s values and status as […]

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Cultural Marxism: A Century Old and Thriving

Larry Sand — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 07:00:56 +0000

In 1923, a group of professors known as the Frankfurt School came to the fore. These German Marxists—notably Theodore Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse—harbored […]

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Pistol Packing Pedagogues

Larry Sand — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 07:00:29 +0000

In April, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law that allows teachers to carry guns on school grounds. If an educator wants to […]

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Pride Decried

Larry Sand — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 07:00:52 +0000

As the Library of Congress notes, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is celebrated each year in the month of June. An […]

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Parental Freedom Is Flourishing

Larry Sand — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 07:00:43 +0000

It’s no secret that the government’s monopoly on education is in trouble. Across the country, public schools are emptying while parental choice is flourishing. Florida, […]

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Abiding Child Abuse in Schools

Larry Sand — Thu, 30 May 2024 07:00:25 +0000

The stories of pedophile teachers not being held accountable for their abominable crimes are endless. In an in-depth piece, reporter Matt Drange investigates the issue […]

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A Tumultuous School Year Winds Down

Larry Sand — Fri, 24 May 2024 07:00:43 +0000

As the school year nears completion, a quick look at recent developments shows an education system in turmoil. The unions are more political than ever, […]

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Child Depreciation

Larry Sand — Wed, 15 May 2024 07:00:02 +0000

With “Teacher Appreciation Week” now behind us, it’s crucial that we pay close heed to the well-being of the students, and the news is not […]

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Undeniably Unentitled

Larry Sand — Wed, 08 May 2024 07:00:58 +0000

President Biden’s education initiatives have been not only intrusive but also disastrous. Billions have been wasted on student debt relief, and $190 billion has been […]

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The DEI Jihad

Larry Sand — Wed, 01 May 2024 07:00:43 +0000

It’s no secret that the nation’s college campuses are ground zero for the current outpouring of Jew hatred. At Columbia, a mob recently taunted Jewish […]

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Toxic Tax Abuse in America

Larry Sand — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:00:38 +0000

Most recently, a veteran editor resigned from NPR after being suspended without pay for writing an essay that exposed the left-wing bias of the public […]

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The Teachers’ Unions Are More Political than Ever

Larry Sand — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:00:40 +0000

In the past, teachers’ unions concentrated on fighting to keep all teachers employed—competent or otherwise—laying off teachers by seniority when necessary and soaking taxpayers every […]

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Featherbed Ed

Larry Sand — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 07:00:07 +0000

New data for the 2022-2023 academic year paints a disturbing picture. While students are slowly trickling back into public schools post-COVID-19, the same cannot be […]

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Protecting Kids from the Government

Larry Sand — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 08:00:25 +0000

According to a Pew Research poll, 5.1% of adults younger than 30 claim to be transgender or nonbinary, and this social contagion is being used […]

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The Plague That Besets Our Schools Is Extensive

Larry Sand — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:00:50 +0000

The year, now a quarter old, reveals that the country’s rapid slide into educational purgatory is moving apace. Leading off the grossness parade is a […]

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Public Schools Are Still Segregated

Larry Sand — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:00:32 +0000

On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered a unanimous ruling that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools violated the 14th Amendment and […]

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Teacher Pay: Half-truths and Reality

Larry Sand — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 08:00:55 +0000

Benjamin Franklin once famously quipped, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” Today, however, we can alter that […]

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Taxpayer U

Larry Sand — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 09:00:39 +0000

The college horror stories are endless. A mandatory Title IX training session at Harvard instructs students that “fatphobia” and “cis-heterosexism” perpetuate violence and that using […]

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Classroom Warfare

Larry Sand — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:55:36 +0000

About 857,500 violent incidents and 479,500 nonviolent incidents were recorded by public schools in 2021-22, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. (Nonviolent incidents […]

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The School Funding Fraud

Larry Sand — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:00:05 +0000

Politico reports that billions of dollars in federal pandemic relief aid to schools is running dry. The money must be spent by September, and there […]

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Chronically Absent Students Need an Alternative

Larry Sand — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:00:52 +0000

It’s no secret that chronic absenteeism has skyrocketed since the pandemic. As The 74s Linda Jacobson writes, a new analysis of federal data released in […]

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Education Crisis: America’s Continuing Battle Against the ‘Act of War’

Larry Sand — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:00:45 +0000

In April 1983, U.S. Secretary of Education Terrell Bell created the National Commission on Excellence in Education, directing it to “examine the quality of education […]

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School Choice Keeps Spreading

Larry Sand — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:00:51 +0000

In just three years, the number of states with universal or near-universal private school choice programs has grown from zero to 10, and the number […]

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Subliterate Readers and Media Literacy

Larry Sand — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 10:00:24 +0000

Per Assembly Bill 873, media literacy skills must now be taught in California schools. The law requires that it not be done in a stand-alone […]

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Inflated Grades, Increasing Graduation Rates, and Deflated Test Scores

Larry Sand — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 10:00:08 +0000

Grade inflation is rampant and has been so for many years. Back in 2011, an in-depth study by three Ivy League economists looked at how […]

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A Fail of Two Cities

Larry Sand — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:00:51 +0000

When it comes to education, Chicago, America’s “Second City,” is nowhere near second. The kids aren’t learning despite piles of money being spent, and families […]

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DEI Resistance Is Advancing

Larry Sand — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 10:00:17 +0000

While it certainly hasn’t been done away with, the anti-quality, anti-fairness, and anti-American “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” hustle is taking some hits. This ugly form […]

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Teacher Union Power is Still in Full Bloom

Larry Sand — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 10:00:17 +0000

As a result of the Janus decision in 2018, no teacher or any public employee has to pay a penny to a union as a […]

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The Rapid Growth of Educational Freedom Is Unprecedented

Larry Sand — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 10:00:11 +0000

According to the latest ABCs of School Choice – EdChoice’s comprehensive report about all matters pertaining to education freedom – policymakers in 40 states have […]

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Charter Schools Rise to the Challenge

Larry Sand — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 10:00:47 +0000

Due to pandemic-related issues, declining birthrates, inferior education, radical curricula, etc., government-run schools are bleeding students. Whereas traditional public schools (TPS) had 50.8 million students […]

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The Union Monopoly Is in Trouble in Florida

Larry Sand — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:00:36 +0000

Since 2018, courtesy of the Supreme Court’s Janus ruling, no public employee has to pay a penny to a union as a condition of employment, and […]

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Randi Weingarten’s Not-So-Dandy Year

Larry Sand — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 10:00:31 +0000

I have written about Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, many times over the years, as there is an ongoing abundance of […]

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Inept and Radical Leadership Has Taken the Formerly Golden State to a New Low

Larry Sand — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 10:00:06 +0000

California has long been known for its sun, surf, and mountains, not to mention its wine, women, and song. But of late, it has been […]

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Schools for Hamas-Cide

Larry Sand — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:00:44 +0000

While the slaying of some 1,400 Jews by Hamas is a major tragedy in and of itself, other important facets of the story merit attention. […]

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If Public Education Were a Business, It Would Be Bankrupt

Larry Sand — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:00:31 +0000

There has been, for some time now, optimism about a post-Covid recovery for American public school students, but sadly, there is no good news to […]

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Voting for Parental Freedom

Larry Sand — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:00:13 +0000

In August 2022, I suggested that Republicans should make education reform a campaign issue. That certainly holds today, but if traditional parents are trapped in […]

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Civic Irresponsibility

Larry Sand — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:00:54 +0000

Veteran talk show host Jay Leno has aired some classic segments in which he’d ask random people questions you would think they’d know, but these […]

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Our Lady of the Holy Climate Change

Larry Sand — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:00:58 +0000

In the 1970s, we were warned about an oncoming ice age. In the ’80s, acid rain warnings were prevalent. In the ‘90s, we were told […]

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The Book Ban Clan

Larry Sand — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:00:37 +0000

In Rules for Radicals, far-left organizer Saul Alinsky’s classic work on labor activism, number 13 in his rules of power tactics reads, “Pick the target, […]

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School Kids Experience Long Covid

Larry Sand — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 10:00:22 +0000

In late August, the U.S. Department of Education issued a press release asserting, “When President Biden took office, less than half of K-12 students were […]

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The Year in Teacher Union Double Dealing

Larry Sand — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 10:00:33 +0000

This has been an egregious year for the country’s teachers unions. Okay, you may be thinking, so what else is new? But 2023 has exposed […]

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Colleges Flunk Out

Larry Sand — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:00:40 +0000

The woes plaguing our government-run K-12 schools now show themselves on the college level. Classes, many of which are useless and often come with a […]

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Schools of the State

Larry Sand — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 10:00:02 +0000

We have all gone through it as children. The joys of summer fade, the weather cools, the days get shorter, and the school doors swing […]

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Parents Revolt Against Trans-Missionaries

Larry Sand — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 10:00:26 +0000

As I noted recently, fads aren’t always harmful things. Nehru jackets, lava lamps, and mood rings may have set you back a few bucks, but […]

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Students and Teachers Are Ditching Public Schools in Droves

Larry Sand — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 10:00:50 +0000

In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report titled, “A Nation at Risk,” which was an important point in the history […]

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The Erroneous ‘Underpaid Teacher’ Claims

Larry Sand — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:00:45 +0000

You hear it all the time. Teachers are underpaid. There is a teacher pay penalty. Teachers are the lowest paid of all the professions. Recently, […]

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Innumeracy and Lunacy

Larry Sand — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 10:00:19 +0000

The 2018 rankings by the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, places the U.S. 38th out of the 79 countries that participated in the […]

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Welcome to Trans Kindergarten!

Larry Sand — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 10:00:57 +0000

Transitional Kindergarten is worthless at best, and in some places, it can be very hazardous for children.

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