I felt immensely helpless when I saw my 7-year-old daughter, Eliza, struggle in public school. But that gave way to immeasurable pride as I watched her flourish at a private school thanks to Arkansas' ...

It’s a race to the bottom in Florida, where lawmakers have sealed the state’s reputation as the country’s epicenter of discriminatory censorship in schools. Over the past few years, new policies and ...

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“The freedom to learn is the freedom to live. We cannot survive our current political moment or unlock the promise of our future without the tools to understand and make sense of our past. And that’s ...

I feel a bit like the child in Hans Christian Anderson’s The Emperor’s New Clothes, who cried out, “But he isn’t wearing anything at all!” I imagine that some of you readers feel the same way. All the ...

Dear editor at Fairfax Connection, I visit my library every week. It's full of people using the resources there. The meeting rooms are booked for community meetings, children are there with their ...