Katherine Kersten

If you’re worried about the trends in labeling the existence of Israel as “settler colonialism,” the Minnesota Department of Education’s new standards will fuel your unease.

Students learn more when their teachers know more, but the Licensing Board finds that an obstacle to equity — and is willing to lower quality.

Students learn more when their teachers know more, but the Licensing Board finds that an obstacle to equity — and is willing to lower quality.

Equal outcomes by decree are now the top priority at our state's largest higher ed system.

In this era of high technology manufacturing, four years and a bachelor’s degree is hardly the only smart path to take. Only 22 percent of jobs in our state require a bachelor’s or above.

It’s the new religion, and it’s the new home of the entire liberal agenda.

Fadi Fadhil -- Freddie to his friends -- is probably marking the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war’s launch with closer attention than the average Minnesotan.

Children’s Minnesota has launched a treatment endeavor just as a warning arrives.

We need to hold our leaders accountable for our children's education.

We need to hold our leaders accountable for our children’s education.

Social science research documents harm from well-intentioned "coddling."

New education standards in Minnesota were drafted by demographic special interest groups and organizations with an aggressive political agenda.

New education standards in Minnesota were drafted by demographic special interest groups and organizations with an aggressive political agenda.

Virtually no state has produced enduring academic gains or narrowed the gap by turning education over to the courts.

An activist court ruling. Metrowide racial balancing of schools. An end to local control. Sum total?

A culture hell-bent on separating pleasure from responsibility made #MeToo inevitable, so now should come the reflective part of the reckoning.

A state agency aims to eliminate racial disparities in schools’ response to misbehavior. Its destabilizing course would only spread the disruption.

Instead of striving for academic excellence, jackboot methods are being used to force students to think “correctly” on social issues.

There are two sides to the debate over school discipline, and the policy being pursued is wrong.

The nation’s founders believed that human beings have a unique dignity and an elevated status over all other animals