educational standards

Avery Gagliano is a child prodigy – a brilliant 12-year-old classical pianist who happens to be a straight-A student. According to bureaucrats in the Washington, D.C. school system though, she’s…

For hundreds of years, education worked well at the local schoolhouse. Children learned reading, writing, and arithmetic, and other subjects, under the watchful guidance of teachers from the community. Sure, there…