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"Combined with the Court’s reasoning in the trilogy of Trinity Lutheran v. Comer (2017), Espinoza v. Montana (2020), and Carson v. Makin (2022) ... the Mahmoud decision clearly provides additional ballast for school choice." bit.ly/4lbo7Jx

"The Court reaffirmed a bedrock principle going back a century to Pierce v. Society of Sisters: Parents cannot be forced to have their children exposed to material that conflicts with their religious beliefs..." bit.ly/44Ffuj8

"Never in the past 50 years has the need for successful innovation been more critical. Student performance is now lower than in the early 1970s, when the nation started assessing student achievement." bit.ly/4ljCLP6

"In spring 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic caused school closures throughout the United States—a seismic disruption with immediate effects on enrollment." bit.ly/4509yS4

Robert Maranto, the 21st Century Chair in Leadership in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, joins the Education Exchange to discuss the Free Inquiry Papers. bit.ly/453VO95

"A century-long arc in education jurisprudence came full circle last month when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that denying parents the option of pulling their children from classroom instruction against their religious beliefs is unconstitutional." bit.ly/46PXzJq

"But panning a movie that ditches art for ideology is worlds apart from trolls politicizing an anodyne film in the service of online outrage." bit.ly/44Hf51c

School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic: Public education sees shrinking middle schools and an exodus of wealthy, white, and Asian students. bit.ly/4509yS4

"In an era when the college-going rate of high school graduates has dropped from an all-time high of 70 percent in 2016 to roughly 62 percent now, AI seems to be heightening the anxieties about the value of college." bit.ly/3IkI7e8

"Put another way, the strongest readers in 8th grade are about 62 times more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree than the students with the lowest reading scores." bit.ly/3I9x9YQ

"Right up top, Armitage explains that 'Pride Month' and Juneteenth moved her to contemplate her 'obligation' to 'cover the hard stuff' with her elementary students." bit.ly/4nxJkyK

"The new Superman is a solid, kid-friendly movie with healthy, old-school values. That wouldn’t seem to merit comment, except that the Very Online right has bizarrely attacked this movie as 'woke.'" bit.ly/44Hf51c

The Education Show Trial of the Century: An early battle in the school culture wars was fought in Tennessee in 1925. Have we learned our lesson? bit.ly/46PXzJq

The Education Exchange: Free Inquiry on the Ropes in the Academy. The antidote to current era of censorship on college campuses is a return to “halcyon days” of open debate, scholar argues. bit.ly/453VO95

"Pretty much the only good-news story in education through the first half of 2025 has been the 'Southern Surge'—the impressive NAEP gains posted by Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee amidst an otherwise dreary landscape." bit.ly/4kADji0

ICYMI: What Can We Learn from the Nation’s Oldest Voucher Program? Scholars draw contrasting lessons from Milwaukee’s 35-year experiment in private-school choice. bit.ly/4lXNw9C

Why Are Right-Wing Trolls Bashing Superman? If you’re looking for old-school values at the movies, you could do much worse than the Man of Steel reboot. bit.ly/44Hf51c

"That’s because, although it professes to foster learning, our school system is not structured in a way that encourages most districts to seek out or implement changes that systematically lead to better student performance." bit.ly/4ljCLP6

"When given the choice between supporting something new or protecting the status quo, voters have a tendency to sacrifice potential gains to avoid the perceived risk of loss." bit.ly/3GqhdAY

ICYMI - The Education Exchange: “Congress Swung for the Fences on School Choice and Hit a Single.” The new federal tax credit scholarship program will need a lot of donors to achieve meaningful choice. bit.ly/3U8Y3mf