Education

Education articles deliver critical analysis of education policy, public schools, universities, trends, and current events — examining their profound impacts on social life, public health, freedom of speech, personal liberty, child development, mental health, and individual freedoms.

We investigate issues like school mental health surveillance and universal screening programs, COVID-era betrayals by institutions, DEI indoctrination in medical and higher education, university science decline and credentialism, gender ideology in classrooms, parental rights erosion, failed public schooling, meritocracy restoration, alternative models (e.g., homeschooling), and pathways to reform that prioritize critical thinking, evidence-based teaching, and human-centered education over compliance and centralized control.

All articles from Brownstone Institute are translated into multiple languages to enable global access, international dialogue on schooling and liberty, and empower parents, educators, and students worldwide to challenge failing systems.

The Universities Failed Us During the Pandemic

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Both universities and governments imposed extreme policies, extending to the micro-management of everyday life during lockdowns and gross violations of human rights, including the right to bodily autonomy. These extreme policies were not supported by hard evidence of effectiveness either at the time or since.

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University Vaccine Mandates Must End Now

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One of the most nonsensical aspects of continuing COVID-19 vaccine mandates is that individuals who survived the mandates last year – that is, were fortunate enough to be granted religious and/or medical exemptions – have to reapply this year. Did these religious reasons suddenly change without the person complying with the mandate initially?  Did these medical reasons that were severe enough to compel a physician to write an exemption suddenly go away?  

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How I Almost Did Not Graduate from Stanford University

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Stanford should end its vaccine mandate entirely. It’s an unscientific and unethical imposition on students who do not need protection from COVID-19 with vaccines or otherwise. And that includes the Stanford students who are on campus, going to class, and those without prior infection and natural immunity. COVID-19 was never a major threat to us young people, and it still isn’t.

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Sorry, Kids: We Were Wrong

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The road to healing and rebuilding ahead is still long, but as a first step we must take responsibility, admit that we have lost our way, and ask our children for heartfelt forgiveness. At the same time, we must direct massive resources toward our children in order to repair the harm of the past two years, in both the socio-emotional and the educational spheres.

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Mask Mandates at Tufts University: Wrecking Campus Life

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Mask mandates have done their best to engender a school environment that is devoid of human connection and visible emotion; is this what we hoped for when mandatory masking went back into place in May 2021? The administration’s decision to renege on this transition indicates they are willing to forcibly mask everyone in perpetuity. For a policy that is ineffective at best and harmful to the mental health of many members of the university body, this is unacceptable.

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When 800 Mainstream US Scientists Warned Against Lockdowns

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Back then, hundreds of professors associated with Yale University organized a letter with signatures to send to the White House. The letter was dated March 2, 2020. It was signed by 800 credentialed professionals largely from the fields of epidemiology and medicine. It might have taken us in a different direction than the one in which governments took us soon after it was published.

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The CDC’s $2.4M Campus Marketing Program

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Why did the CDC believe it was worthwhile to spend $2.4 million trying to convince college students to get vaccinated for a disease that poses little serious threat to most young, healthy individuals? Furthermore, why did the CDC and ACHA feel it was appropriate to peddle a potentially risky drug to young people as if it were a lifestyle brand? 

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The Memo that Closed the Nation’s Schools

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“Just watch kids with runny noses and coughing and sneezing and touching one another (especially the younger ones),” the memo says. “You couldn’t design a better system to spread disease. Schools and daycare centers are clearly amplifiers of disease transmission…. We don’t need to exhaust ourselves searching for perfect solutions to address all these challenges associated with the 2nd and 3rd order consequences of school closure.”

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