While NAEP scores hit 20-year lows, teachers’ unions were debating ethical veganism

For me, it was my ten-year old’s lesson on “pansexuality” — a topic that I, a late millennial mother, couldn’t define.

I was sitting at my kitchen counter building Defending Education, an organization I founded to expose the politicization of education and improve learning outcomes.

I launched it in part because my intelligent, curious children […] ...