An overwhelming majority of black Americans vote for Democrats. That likely won’t change anytime soon. But New York Times op-ed writer …
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CURE’s Star Parker believes it takes traditional values to fight poverty, along with educational choice for low-income families and building small …
Read More »WATCH: Black Celebrities Who Support This 'Conservative' Issue
What can parents with children in failing government schools do to get their kids out and into better schools? Besides move to …
Read More »Why Money, Smaller Class Sizes Won't Close Black-White Education Gap
Some credit Albert Einstein, others credit Benjamin Franklin, with the observation that “the definition of insanity is doing the same …
Read More »Race, Poverty & Education in the GOP
CURE’s Star Parker will moderate a post-debate discussion on Friday, January 15, to provide a meaningful response to tonight’s GOP presidential …
Read More »WATCH: Supreme Court Could Strike Down Mandatory Teachers Union Fees
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. Rebecca Friedrichs and other teachers sued …
Read More »This Teacher's Challenge to Democrat-Donating Teachers Union Heads to Supreme Court
In 2014, BCN blogged about Rebecca Friedrichs’s case against a teachers union, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. She and other like-minded educators in California …
Read More »‘Anti-Catholicism’ In State Constitutions?
Should parents be allowed to use taxpayers’ funds to send their kids to religious schools? The U.S. Supreme Court has yet …
Read More »Scholars Shine New Light on Old Truths for Fighting Poverty
Two of the oldest and most venerated public policy institutes in Washington, D.C., the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings …
Read More »Most College Students Don’t Belong In College
Most college students do not belong in college. I am not by myself in this assessment. Washington Post columnist Robert …
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