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.

1 day ago · Allegations of abuse have rocked two school districts in Oklahoma, prompting the state’s Department of Education to open investigations into each case. The latest investigation concerned Hugo Public Schools, where five employees have been placed on administrative leave, according to KFOR TV. “The school district is conducting an internal investigation and cooperating with law enforcement

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 […]

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, […]

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Oct 18, 2024 · Four Jewish teachers are suing their California teachers’ union for alleged antisemitism and its refusal to let them leave the group. The lawsuit, announced on Oct. 7, was filed against the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) by the Freedom Foundation. “In the aftermath of the deadly Hamas […]