Jonathan Butcher
Articles by Jonathan Butcher
EducationCommentary
New Senate Proposal Moves the Ball on Closing Down Department of Education
Will the U.S. Department of Education end with a bang or a whimper? So far this year, President Donald Trump’s executive orders have arrived with… Read More
EducationAnalysis
Harvard and DEI: An Expensive Lesson
The U.S. Department of Education is calling on colleges to account for racist and antisemitic incidents on campus—and its move to withhold taxpayer dollars from… Read More
EducationCommentary
Teachers Unions Oppose Reintroduction of Phonics
For decades, K-12 schools have wandered away from a time-tested, research-based method of teaching reading: phonics. Student scores have plunged to historic lows, but some… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Higher Ed Needs to Show Its Work on Ending DEI
Students are not the only ones who have homework due this semester. Teachers, college professors, and school administrators have a civil rights assignment to turn… Read More
EducationCommentary
Who’s Afraid of School Choice—and Food Trucks—in Wyoming?
Teacher unions are racing to stop greater education choice from spreading to Wyoming. But parents there already know that more education options would be valuable… Read More
EducationCommentary
Trump Directive Gives Military Families New Reason to Celebrate National School Choice Week
Two welcome changes from the new White House in its first weeks are the turn away from diversity, equity, and inclusion in education and a… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Unlikely Bedfellows, DeSantis and Teachers Union Agree on Smartphones
What do the nation’s largest teacher union and the country’s most conservative governor agree on? Smartphones—specifically, keeping them out of the classroom. In 2023, Florida… Read More
SocietyCommentary
3 Crucial Ways to Avoid Poverty Should Be Taught in Schools
Americans have forgotten how to form families. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that the U.S. population will begin to shrink in eight years, which The… Read More
SocietyCommentary
More Corporations Following Walmart’s ‘Rollback’ of DEI Policies
Walmart executives scuttled the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion programs recently, becoming the latest corporate giant to drop extreme politics after public outcry. Others on… Read More
EducationCommentary
Major Textbook Publisher Caught Spreading LGBTQ and DEI Ideology in Schools
“Pretty disgusting” and “grotesque.” That’s how a Florida parent described an online session for students on “gender” provided by two K-12 virtual public schools in… Read More
