Education, home schooling

After Years in the Wilderness, Conservative Christian Education Is Being Born Again Post-Pandemic

11/28/2023 at 1:19 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Vince Bieleski, RealClearInvestigations, August 17, 2023 New, state-funded school choice programs make it easier for students from poor families to afford tuition. Above, student athletes at Pusch Ridge Christian Academy, serving mostly Latinos on the south side of... read more

Home learning feels more mainstream post-pandemic

08/02/2023 at 10:11 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Maria Wierning, Our Sunday Visitor, August 2, 2023 (OSV News) — Valerie Faverio had been “enamored” with the idea of home schooling since she was pregnant with her now 9-year-old daughter, but it was the pandemic that pushed her to try it herself. At the beginning of 2020,... read more

Arizona Teachers’ Union Push to Overturn School-Choice Expansion Appears to Flop

09/27/2022 at 1:43 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Caroline Downey, National Review, September 27, 2022 The teachers’ union-backed campaign to overturn school-choice expansion in Arizona appears to have flopped, according to think tank projections relying on preliminary vote tallies. Under the expansion of Arizona’s... read more

A Pastor Saves His Flock by Catholic Education

09/13/2021 at 6:45 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Patrick J. Reilly, Crisis, September 10, 2021 In Northern Virginia, where critical race theory, gender ideology, and emptied classrooms because of COVID-19 have sparked protests by angry parents of public-school students, a parish priest is taking up the legendary Archbishop “Dagger John”... read more

A Crucial Line of Defense for Catholic Education

07/11/2021 at 9:12 PM By Kevin Edward White
We must carve out protection for Catholic education if we are ever to win the larger battle. By Patrick Reilly, National Catholic Register, July 8, 2021Catholic education could face severe hardships should the religious protection that is built into Title IX — the federal law banning sex... read more

French Government Seeks to Ban Home Schooling

04/07/2021 at 2:00 PM By Kevin Edward White
The rise in Islamic extremism in France and the coronavirus pandemic have laid the groundwork for an increasing interference of the state in the nation’s educational system. By Solène Tadié, National Catholic Register, April 6, 2021PARIS — The legitimacy of the practice of home schooling... read more

In a Rebuke to Teachers Unions, School Choice Is Going Gangbusters in the States

04/05/2021 at 2:30 PM By Kevin Edward White
After public schools and teachers unions proved that they could not or would not meet the needs of students during the pandemic, multiple state legislatures are collectively undertaking one of the biggest expansions of school choice in history. By Lindsey Burke, Daily Signal, March 30,... read more

Typical new US religious: 38-year-old cradle Catholic who regularly took part in Eucharistic adoration

01/29/2021 at 4:13 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Catholic World News, January 27, 2021 The typical religious who professed perpetual vows in 2020 is a 38-year-old cradle Catholic who regularly prayed the Rosary and took part in Eucharistic adoration before entering religious life, according to a survey released by the United States Conference... read more

The Morning Briefing: Educators Are Nervous About Kids Being Away From Public School Indoctrination During Shutdown

04/20/2020 at 8:53 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Stephen Kruiser, PJ Media, April 20, 2020 We Have Come for Your Children The past couple of months have certainly been a time of many adjustments for a lot of Americans. Some of us -- like myself -- haven’t really had our daily routines upset. My child is finishing up college and... read more
Priests of the Society of St. Pius X. Father Patrick Rutledge, the parish rector, is on the left.

The Christian Withdrawal Experiment

12/31/2019 at 4:53 PM By Kevin Edward White
Feeling out of step with the mores of contemporary life, members of a conservative-Catholic group have built a thriving community in rural Kansas. Could their flight from mainstream society be a harbinger for the nation? By Emma Green, Atlantic, December 31, 2019 Half an hour down the... read more

More Reasons to Avoid Public Education

06/28/2019 at 1:39 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Tom Allen, Crisis, June 27, 2019 My family experienced public school for the first time this past semester and it was, well … memorable, up to and including last weekend’s graduation ceremonies. After 20 years of private Catholic schooling from K through college for our first three... read more