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Nov 28, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Rachel Alexander Cambre |Daniel Mahoney |Glenn Reynolds |Nadya Williams
“This is my story, my giving of thanks.” So begins Wendell Berry’s 2004 novel Hannah Coulter, narrated by the titular character, a 79-year-old woman recounting her life’s story. It is a work of thanksgiving, and it is a work about thanksgiving—how it is practiced, how it is learned, and what happens when it gives way to restless longing for “a better place.”As such, it raises questions pertinent to today’s holiday.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
heritage.org | Rachel Alexander Cambre
Are American schools overrun by indoctrination? Many Americans think so. Parents today are rightly disturbed by upticks in racism, antisemitism, and gender confusion across K–12 campuses and blame ideological instruction for indoctrinating their children.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
heritage.org | Rachel Alexander Cambre
In his 1943 book Education for Freedom, Robert Maynard Hutchins, then-president of the University of Chicago, warned against modern schooling’s unnatural extension of adolescence.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
heritage.org | Rachel Alexander Cambre
Louisiana’s fight for education freedom has been long and weary, but the end may be near. From public schools’ systemic suppression of Cajun French nearly a century ago through its history of poor academic outcomes, Louisianans have long recognized that the state’s education will not improve until parents can choose what’s best for their children.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
businessreport.com | Rachel Alexander Cambre |Oscar Tickle
Editor’s note: The viewpoints expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Business Report or its staff. Louisiana’s fight for education freedom has been long and weary, but the end may be near. From public schools’ systemic suppression of Cajun French nearly a century ago through its history of poor academic outcomes, Louisianans have long recognized that the state’s education will not improve until parents can choose what’s best for their children.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
heartlanddailynews.com | Rachel Alexander Cambre
This National School Choice Week, let’s celebrate return to founding principles of education in America. (Opinion)The school choice policies may be among the most innovative—and promising—enacted in recent memory. Yet they also embody a return to principles first enshrined in American law nearly 400 years ago. In 1642, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony crafted the nation’s first education law, its objective was clear: Parents must educate their children.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
dailysignal.com | Rachel Alexander Cambre
The school choice policies may be among the most innovative—and promising—enacted in recent memory. Yet they also embody a return to principles first enshrined in American law nearly 400 years ago. In 1642, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony crafted the nation’s first education law, its objective was clear: Parents must educate their children.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
heritage.org | Rachel Alexander Cambre
American patriotism and trust in institutions—especially those of government—have plummeted in recent years, but last spring the Pew Research Center found an outlier: the National Park Service (NPS).REF The park system enjoys more public support than any other federal agency or department and almost double the levels of support for the government’s least popular agencies—the IRS and Department of Education.REF More than 80 percent of Americans view the Park Service favorably, an approval...
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
firstthings.com | Rachel Alexander Cambre
It’s the start of a new school year, which means students are diving back into classes and coursework. It’s also the season when after-school commitments resume, with students signing up for clubs, teams, and leadership positions they hope will catch the eye of college admissions counselors. As the Wall Street Journal reported last month, spending on extracurriculars is on the rise, largely because parents are eager for their kids to stand out among fellow applicants.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
heritage.org | Rachel Alexander Cambre
At a weeklong Austin Institute seminar for high school students for which I served as a faculty member this summer, I was pleased, but not surprised, by the academic caliber of the participants. What I didn’t expect, however, was their notable sense of social ease, which I witnessed as they quickly began to befriend one another both inside and outside the classroom.
