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Civics Needs Pluralism March 12, 2025

America is a beautiful – and decidedly pluralistic – country. Our education system contains 12,546 locally controlled school districts. Charter schools have gained hundreds of thousands of students in recent years. Private school enrollments are up, ...

education

Forgotten Wars: Conflict Intensifies in Burkina Faso March 03, 2025

Over the past decade, Burkina Faso has been experiencing a profound political and humanitarian crisis, driven by armed insurrections and a resurgence of terrorism. Since 2015, the country has witnessed an escalation of violence perpetrated by jihadis...

Americans Should Learn from Norway’s Model Prisons – and Why They Are Failing March 01, 2025

In the case of the world’s model for prison reform, Norway, the old adage “personnel is policy” might be amended to “the (lack of) personnel is policy.”For decades, Norway’s prison system has stood as a beacon of effective and human prison reform, ad...

Educate Americans First September 17, 2024

Skyrocketing foreign student enrollment at American universities is giving foreign governments power over what our universities teach while acculturating American students in third-world hatreds ...

education

Is China Teaching Your Child in Public School? September 16, 2024

Public displays of antisemitism on college campus over the last year have focused attention on foreign entities funding American higher education. But less publicized — and more insidious — are foreign influences in K-12 schools. ...

Teachable Moments: 9/11 and October 7 September 13, 2024

After the worst terror attack on their soil, US educators steered clear of tough questions. It was a dire mistake that Israeli teachers must avoid...

September 11, 2001

Beijing’s Play for Taiwan’s Young Voices Intensifies September 05, 2024

In early June, Taiwanese celebrities and influencers offered a rare window into a little understood way that China is seeking to exert influence on the island’s information space. Within the span of just a few days, multiple singers, actors, and YouT...

COVID-19: The Preventable Pandemic August 23, 2024

When the Heritage Foundation released its comprehensive report on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, headlines tended to focus on the cost to the U.S. That’s not surprising: At an eye-popping $18 trillion, it’s almost 10 times the projected 2024 b...

Back to School in Wartime August 23, 2024

Students in Sderot navigate emotional challenges—and missile attacks—as the new academic year approaches ...

education

Great Power Politics Is an Illusion August 21, 2024

Everyone of a certain age who passed through British secondary education will have spent a few months learning about the League of Nations, which, to my knowledge, is not a subject of academic study anywhere else. ...

Great Power

Centrists Can’t Ignore the Rise of Populism in East Germany August 20, 2024

Walking through Dresden this weekend, I was bombarded with political messaging. Posters on every lamppost promise anything from “top education” to “law and order” — whatever it takes to draw voters back from the political fringes ahead of regional el...

Germany

A Different Economic Strategy for India August 10, 2024

The national election in India this past spring produced a shocking outcome. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were widely expected to win a third five-year term and increase their majority in the Indian parliament. ...

India

economics

Narendra Modi

Kenya and the African Continent Need Greater U.S. Attention August 08, 2024

Africa has never truly been a strategic geopolitical focus for the United States. Despite the continent’s population of 1.4 billion people, which is predicted to double by 2050, and having some of the fastest-growing economies in the world, the U.S. ...

Sports Diplomacy Playing on in Paris Sets a Global Example August 06, 2024

Thirty-two years ago, I started the Institute for Education over breakfast with my high-powered tennis students. ...

Olympics