Update on September 7, 2021: It has been brought to our attention that the VA Department of Education put out a statement that the views presented in Amaarah DeCuir's lecture do not necessarily represent those of the VA Department of Education. We have updated this post and our social media posts accordingly. The lecture seems
Yes, you read that right. I’m asking you to let your kids be just a little bit messy. I get it. Your life is busy enough without extra chaos, confusion, or goldfish cracker crumbs to sweep up. Anyone who's been a parent long knows how exhausting and frustrating it can be to clean up a
“Now is the time...to be engaged and be active with your children. Because at the end of the day, that’s where we’re going to see things changing,” says Michelle Lynch, a wife, mother, and Functional Health Practitioner from Salem, Virginia. Last Thursday, the Noah Webster Educational Foundation facilitated a conversation between parents and students on
The Biden Administration recently sent a message to transgender students as kids around the nation head back to school. NBC News reports that members from the administration shared their support for transgender students in a video published on August 17, 2021. The participants were Suzanne Goldberg, the Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights from the
Joseph Stringer is a concerned citizen who submitted this letter to his local Virginia newspaper and shared it with NWEF. He believes that the current approach to children experiencing gender confusion is unethical and abusive to the very children it claims to protect. An author and thinker, Stringer writes on cultural issues impacting families and
On my first day of undergraduate school, bright and early in the morning, I timidly entered college algebra class. I had taken a gap year between high school and college, and I was nervous about algebra’s dormancy in my mind. I awkwardly took a seat in the classroom and watched my fellow students fill up
As a parent, few things bring us more joy than watching our children thrive. We hope that they will always be perfectly happy, make good grades, and become strong, kind individuals...but life is not usually free of difficulty. It’s easy to get worried when our kids struggle—even if it’s to be expected. We want to
Perhaps you’ve heard bad things in the news lately about the public school system, and you recognize a potential threat to your child’s education. Chances are, you have even felt the urge to step in and do something. After all, you want the best education possible for your child. Even though you recognize the need
-- Parental engagement is American education’s best-kept secret—and it’s one of the core principles that we talk about here at Noah Webster Educational Foundation. Join us online or in-person as NWEF president Melvin Adams hosts a panel of involved parents discussing the power that parents have to direct their children’s learning and to
President Biden called school superintendents in Florida and Arizona to congratulate them on doing the right thing by implementing mask requirements in their school districts, despite the governors’ statewide bans on mask mandates. In a statement on Saturday, the White House shared that interim Broward Superintendent Vickie Cartwright in Florida and Phoenix Union High School
