Education

To revive in American K-12 education the fundamental discipline of critical and active thinking which is based on facts, investigation, logic and sound reasoning. [...] Parents, children and teachers are afraid to speak up and resist. In No Left Turn in Education we believe in restoring the intended relationship between parents and the public education.

We are a team of scholars, researchers, and educators who have spent our careers creating engaging learning tools and advancing critical thinking skills. Each of us has seen first-hand the impact of broken discourse in our professional and personal communities, and is committed to promoting more productive dialogue. We work to build communities where people have genuine and compassionate curiosity for multiple points of view. We believe that this capacity forms the basis of a tolerant and open society.

The Chalkboard Review is a site of education commentary that features a diverse range of voices on all things education. We believe intellectual diversity benefits American education and therefore seek to publish a thoughtful range of voices from teachers to advocates, scholars, and industry leaders—left, right, and center.

SchoolhouseRights.org supports civil rights litigation in defense of students’ freedom of conscience in public education and the rights of parents to guide and direct the upbringing of their children. SchoolhouseRights.org is a project of the International Organization for the Family, a 501(c)(3) charity, and donations are tax-deductible.

The Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education is dedicated to strengthening universities to fulfill their highest aspirations. Through our grantees, we offer undergraduate, graduate, and professional students the opportunity to pursue their studies with a vision of what higher education should contribute to human flourishing.

Nyansa strives to educate the whole person, to help students understand why their world looks the way it does and to teach them cultural literacy so they can explore that world confidently. The older I get, the more I appreciate what a gift it was to have that as a central part of my own education. I support Nyansa because it lets me share that gift with others.

The mission of The Piney Woods School is to provide excellence in education within a Christian community through creation of an exceptional academic model which supports the tenet that all students can learn, develop a strong work ethic, and lead extraordinary lives through academic achievement and responsible citizenship, but may not have the opportunity to do so for financial or other reasons.

CHARACTER COUNTS! provides practical character education/SEL strategies, curricular resources, and training to positively impact your school system, community, youth-serving, or people-helping organization. The CC! initiative has demonstrated success as a stand-alone initiative or working in alignment with other programs such as PBIS to foster positive climate change to produce exceptional results in the academic, social and emotional, character education, and school-climate domains.

Seeking Educational Excellence (SEE) is an organization committed to ending identity politics and the social justice agenda in schools. [...] SEE believes the social justice agenda fosters a sense of victimhood. Victimhood should not be a protected social class. It creates social disconnect and emotional paralysis, which can impair the potential upward social and economic mobility of students trying to make a place for themselves in the adult world.

Heterodox Academy is a group of 4,400+ professors, administrators, K-12 educators, staff & students who believe diverse viewpoints & open inquiry are critical to research & learning. [...] We aspire to create college classrooms and campuses that welcome diverse people with diverse viewpoints and that equip learners with the habits of heart and mind to engage that diversity in open inquiry and constructive disagreement.

Our Back-to-School Playbook includes a set of resources to help you create a learning environment that supports constructive dialogue. Resources include: Leading an OpenMind Classroom. Tips and strategies to foster constructive dialogue in your classroom. A Guide to Student Roles in Classroom Discussions. Explore the common roles students play in difficult conversations and what you can do to encourage productive participation.

EmpowerED Pathways was established in 2017 to provide learning experiences and practices which support individual well-being and a compassionate collaborative. […] Mission: Empowering educators, youth and communities by strengthening the neural pathways to peace and resilience through mindfulness and social and emotional learning. Vision: To establish an empowered society of individuals at peace within themselves and with others.

Fund Students, Not Systems: Parents know their children best and want solutions as unique as their kids. EFI exists to research, document, and report the benefits that school choice provides to students, families, and communities. We support policies that protect and promote school choice. We pursue this mission using objective data and through publishing our findings. EFI is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank dedicated to these efforts.

Founded in 2006, Success Academy Charter Schools is the largest and highest-performing free, public charter school network in New York City. Admission is open to all New York State children, including those with special needs and English language learners. Students are admitted by a random lottery held each April. Success Academy operates 47 schools serving 20,000 students in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.

For more than seven decades, this principle has remained at the heart of UNCF, enabling us to raise more than $5 billion and help more than 500,000 students and counting not just attend college, but thrive, graduate and become leaders.

We do this in three ways: By awarding more than 10,000 students scholarships, worth more than $100 million, each year. By providing financial support to 37 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). And by serving as the nation’s leading advocate for the importance of minority education and community engagement.

This training helps businesses fight racism systematically by equipping clients with the Theory of Enchantment Three Principled Practice. This practice engages clients in the study of pop culture and literary texts authored by some of the greatest moral, philosophical, and intellectual giants of our time. Doing so helps ensure that corporate communities do not become ideologically possessed by supremacist ways of thinking and inspires them to actively foster conditions in their workplace that create Dr. King's Beloved Community.

My encounter with a bad idea

We know how to close the math achievement gap, now we just have to do it

But the real reason was to hide the state's dismal failure to educate its children

Black families are leading an exodus from public and private schools

Apply to the Inaugural Teacher Institute for High School Educators, Fall 2022

Soapbox A MARSHALL PLAN FOR BLACK LIVES Nandini Patwardhan Originally from India, I have lived in the US since the 1980s. I am a grandmother, a writer…

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is a hot topic these days, especially because of its adoption of the tenets of Critical Social Justice in K-12 schools. The mere fact that learning focused on children’s emotional development is causing an uproar may be as surprising as it is concerning. Who could be against students learning about emotions and how to handle them in both individual and social settings?