Jan 17, 2025 · The views and ideas expressed are of the author, not of the Herzog Foundation. The Herzog Foundation does not necessarily endorse the author’s views and ideas and has not verified the accuracy of information published here, but provides various perspectives surrounding education, culture, and Christianity.

We are living in tumultuous times. American culture seems confused, even schizophrenic. Culture is never uniform, but within the nation today, contradictory factions are growing. Parents are unsure what kind of future awaits their children, and they fear too many, even their own, will be swept up in a small but raging torrent of political […]

Jan 29, 2025 · The views and ideas expressed are of the author, not of the Herzog Foundation. The Herzog Foundation does not necessarily endorse the author’s views and ideas and has not verified the accuracy of information published here, but provides various perspectives surrounding education, culture, and Christianity.

5 days ago · Leftist librarians are losing their minds after Trump’s education department announced it will support schools removing sexually explicit books from their libraries. The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it had ended “Biden’s book ban hoax.” It dismissed complaints that “alleged that local school districts’ removal of …

Jan 17, 2025 · (Daily Caller News Foundation) – Five years after the COVID-19 lockdowns and school closures reshaped Americans’ perception of public education, parents who spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation are relieved at the prospect of a “real restoration of parental rights” under President-elect Donald Trump. For many parents, the COVID-19 lockdowns opened a window into […]

Nov 20, 2024 · An increasing number of professors at first-tier colleges are lamenting the lack of reading skills in their students from public schools, with some educators calling it a national “literacy crisis.” Even without hard numbers about the extent of this phenomenon, anecdotal evidence from The Atlantic suggests a “concerning rate of illiteracy (they) are seeing in […]

Dec 19, 2024 · Freedom is alive and well and filling the young minds of students in Christian schools and homeschools across the country. That’s one takeaway from this year’s Herzog Foundation Bill of Rights essay contest. (Herzog is the publisher of The Lion). Lillian McCulloch of Classical Consortium Academy in Barrington, Illinois, won the high school division and […]

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Dec 10, 2024 · Two Massachusetts moms are suing a coalition of publishers and educators they say ruined literacy instruction in America’s public schools for decades. Karrie Conley and Michele Hudak filed a class-action lawsuit last week, arguing literacy instruction was purposefully undermined for the sake of profit. The defendants in the case are literacy “pioneers,” including Lucy Calkins, […]