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Freedom in Education Policy Brief
Issued by: Freedom in Education Media TeamRelease Date: February 2026 Executive Summary This month’s brief focuses on the shift away from a “one-size-fits-all” approach to...
Letter from The President: What Comes After Graduation? There’s More Than One Answer
As students across the country move closer to high school graduation, many families feel a familiar pressure building—the expectation that there is a single “right”...
The Myth of “College and Career Readiness”
BY: Beanie Geoghegan Thanks in large part to the Obama Administration’s Race to the Top initiative, the term “college and career readiness” became increasingly popular...
Why Financial Literacy Should Be a Graduation Requirement
Opinion-Editorial By: Natasha Jasperson The diploma is barely warm in their hands when it happens. An 18-year-old sits in a financial aid office, clicks “accept”...
In Search of Well-Rounded Learning
Guest Blog By: Chris Woods If you’re in education, you might have heard kids say things like this:“I can’t learn math. I’m left-brained.”“I don’t like...
Founders Podcast S3: E2 ft. Chris Woods
In this podcast, Beanie speaks with Chris Woods, teacher, author, speaker, and host of DailySTEM Podcast about how DailySTEM helps all students, but especially those...
California Leads the Way: New Law Protects Children from AI Chatbot Risks
BY: Natasha Jasperson Rising Concerns Over AI and Children In recent years, alarming cases have emerged of teenagers who died by suicide after forming emotional...
Freedom in Education Policy Brief
Issued by: The Freedom in Education Media TeamRelease Date: January 12, 2026 This month’s brief examines how artificial intelligence (AI) is being integrated into K-12...
Founders Podcast S3: E1 ft. Brett Benson
In this podcast, Beanie speaks with 7th Grade World Studies teacher, Brett Benson who uses the science of learning in the classroom. They discuss setting...
Turning Lemons Into Lemonade—and Skilled Workers
BY: Beanie Geoghegan The surge in young people choosing to pursue Career and Technical Education (CTE) rather than attend a four-year college or university is...
Why Knowledge-Rich History Builds Financially Literate Citizens
BY: Mike DiMatteo History is uniquely positioned to bridge the classroom and the real world. Few subjects lend themselves so naturally to discussions that extend...
Founders Podcast S2: E15 ft. Tom Bennett
In this podcast, Beanie speaks with Tom Bennett about the importance of behavior guidelines. He recently chaired the Behaviour Management Group for the UK Department...
Why Do We Need This Stuff?
BY: Mike DiMatteo I was asked more than once by students “why do I have to study this stuff?” After a time, I’d begin the...
Carpool Talk Episode 6: Mahmoud v. Taylor
In this episode Apryl Dukes-McDaniel and Miranda Stovall dive into the landmark Supreme Court case Mahmoud v. Taylor which underscores a shifting legal landscape that...
Founders Podcast S2: E14 ft. Maggie Litz Domanowski
In this podcast, Beanie speaks with Maggie Litz Domanowski an elected school board member in Baltimore County, MD about her experience as a mother and...
The Credit Recovery Trap: Inflated Grades, Empty Knowledge
BY: Mike DiMatteo There is a trend in education for the past number of years, even before the Covid era, wherein students that were not...
The Ritual of Reading Books Is Worth Reviving
By: Beanie Geoghegan Ray Bradbury once said, “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” With...
Gratitude in Action: Shaping the Future of Education
By: Beanie Geoghegan Roman philosopher Cicero believed that “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” The future of...
We Have Much To Learn From England, Again
By: Beanie Geoghegan Not so long ago, in the early 2000s, England faced many of the same challenges in K-12 education as the United States...
Founders Podcast S2: E11 ft. Clay and Katie Broussard on IdeasMatterU
In this podcast, Beanie speaks with Clay and Katie Broussard on IdeasMatterU. https://youtu.be/oIi0IIYbbDY
Founders Podcast S2: E12 ft. Sir Nick Gibb
In this podcast, Beanie speaks with Sir Nick Gibb, a former UK Minister of State for Schools and Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) where during...
Founders Podcast S2: E13 ft. Sean Morrisey
In this podcast, Beanie speaks with Sean Morrisey, teacher and creator of Word Mapping Project "Linking Sound, Spelling, and Meaning for Word Mastery" https://youtu.be/w39hgD-xElI
Veterans Day Reflection: The Holiest Blood of Self-Sacrifice
By: Mike DiMatteo “If the country is good enough to live in, it’s good enough to fight for. With privilege goes responsibility.” Those were the...
Freedom in Education Policy Brief
Freedom in Education Policy Brief Issued by: Freedom in Education Media TeamCoverage Dates: September 15–October 20, 2025 This month’s brief examines the declining efficacy of...
Letter from the President: Ending the Math Wars: Restoring Common Sense to K–12 Math
For more than seventy years, America has been locked in what educators call “the math wars.” In the 1950s and 60s, the New Math movement chased abstraction over arithmetic....
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