Here’s How We Know The Flunking Education Establishment Is Scared

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Here's How We Know The Education Establishment Is Scared

For those parents who have sought more say over their children’s education, the message is clear: We’re winning.

thefederalist.com

The entrenched educational powers are scared. We cannot draw any other conclusion from the egregious, full-court press against homeschooling and classical education from corporate media and national public school organizations.

Yet as much as the increasing number of bitter hit pieces and “reports” unfairly malign and misrepresent both homeschoolers and classical schools, the phenomenon also evinces something hopeful. The overtaking of American public education by racial and sexual ideologues has tremendously backfired. For those parents who have sought more say over their children’s education, the message is clear: We’re winning.

“How the conservative Christian right is hijacking homeschooling,” read a May headline from MSNBC. CNN earlier this year reported on a “white supremacist homeschooling network that shares Nazi-related resources.”

Classical education is also under assault. As The Federalist’s Joy Pullmann recently noted, The Washington Post on June 8 positively covered a “report” — funded by the Network for Public Education, which receives funding from public school teachers unions — claiming schools that use a classics-based curriculum are vanguards of “right-wing Christian nationalism.”

Between 2020 and 2021, state funding for higher education declined in 37 states by an average of 6 percent, according to the National Education Association, America’s largest union.

And why not? According to the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), homeschoolers “typically score 15 to 25 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests.” The NHERI also reports that 78 percent of peer-reviewed studies on academic achievement show homeschooled students statistically perform significantly better than those in institutional schools. Research conducted by the sociology department at the University of Notre Dame indicates that classically educated students have better academic preparation, outlooks on life, and independent thinking than students in public schools.