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Betsy DeVos | Empowering students and parents

Betsy DeVos serves as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Education and has been involved in education policy for nearly three decades as an advocate for children and a voice for parents. She is especially passionate about reforms that help underserved children gain access to a quality education.

Can Conservative Students Really Receive a Quality Education in the Age of Wokeness?

By R. Michael Urban, III It’s a question that is on the minds of conservative students who attend classes at colleges and universities nationwide: In the age of wokeness, am I really able to receive an unbiased, quality education? Conservative students have good reason to ponder this question. Whether it is oppressing the freedom of speech, […]

‘It’s A Start, I Guess’: Students Express Dissatisfaction With ‘Small’ Amount of Loan Forgiveness Funds Provided by Biden Plan

“$10,000, money’s fake, I mean, I don’t see a problem,” a student told Young America’s Foundation Spokeswoman Kara Zupkus when asked for his thoughts on President Biden’s recently announced plan to forgive student loan debt. Zupkus visited George Mason University earlier this week on a mission to find out what college students think of President […]

Americans Are Standing Up to the Broken Public Education System. I Know Why:

By: Illiana Lievanos  We’ve all seen the viral videos of parents standing up to school administrators for the sake of their child’s education—or lack thereof. Ditching the traditional classroom setup with blackboards, ABCs, and arithmetic, educators have taken it upon themselves to furnish the classroom with Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ propaganda, yet parents are […]

Ian Rowe

Mr. Rowe is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on education and upward mobility, family formation, and adoption. Mr. Rowe is also the cofounder of Vertex Partnership Academies, a new network of character-based International Baccalaureate high schools opening in the Bronx in 2022; the chairman of the board of Spence-Chapin, […]

Corey DeAngelis PhD

Corey DeAngelis is the national director of research at the American Federation for Children, the executive director at Educational Freedom Institute, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a senior fellow at Reason Foundation. He was named on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work on education policy and received the Buckley Award […]

Burgess Owens

Burgess spent his childhood growing up in the Deep South during a period when the barriers of segregation were being torn down. He was the third Black American to be offered a football scholarship at the University of Miami. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology/Chemistry and simultaneously gained national recognition as a […]

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