Jan 17, 2025 · The views and ideas expressed are of the author, not of the Herzog Foundation. The Herzog Foundation does not necessarily endorse the author’s views and ideas and has not verified the accuracy of information published here, but provides various perspectives surrounding education, culture, and Christianity.

We are living in tumultuous times. American culture seems confused, even schizophrenic. Culture is never uniform, but within the nation today, contradictory factions are growing. Parents are unsure what kind of future awaits their children, and they fear too many, even their own, will be swept up in a small but raging torrent of political […]

2 days ago · U.S. Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, has introduced a bill to advance education freedom by reforming the federal tax code. The Achieving Choice in Education (ACE) Act, introduced Wednesday, is cosponsored by Sen. Ted Budd, R-North Carolina, and Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Missouri.. The ACE Act doubles the annual amount families can take from 529 accounts to pay for K-12 expenses – from $10,000 to $20,000.

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Dec 27, 2024 · The exponential growth of the Herzog Foundation’s trainings is nothing short of extraordinary. After hosting its first two events in 2021, the foundation, which supports Christian education and publishes The Lion, grew to 16 trainings in 2022, followed by 50 in 2023 and 100 this year.. The trainings involved 6,644 attendees in 2024 across multiple locations, a number that could approach ...

Dec 31, 2024 · Josh Mann, Ph.D., is the managing editor for The Lion. Prior to working for the Herzog Foundation, Josh worked for a software startup in the language-learning space did academic research in Early Christianity and digital Bibles.

Nov 20, 2024 · An increasing number of professors at first-tier colleges are lamenting the lack of reading skills in their students from public schools, with some educators calling it a national “literacy crisis.” Even without hard numbers about the extent of this phenomenon, anecdotal evidence from The Atlantic suggests a “concerning rate of illiteracy (they) are seeing in […]

Jan 22, 2025 · A government report released incriminating data last week that dispels the myth that public education serves all students equally.. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights report compiles nationwide numbers from the 2021-22 school year on a range of topics. New data points included tracking the number of “nonbinary” students, who were reported in 11% of school districts.

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Dec 19, 2024 · Freedom is alive and well and filling the young minds of students in Christian schools and homeschools across the country. That’s one takeaway from this year’s Herzog Foundation Bill of Rights essay contest. (Herzog is the publisher of The Lion). Lillian McCulloch of Classical Consortium Academy in Barrington, Illinois, won the high school division and […]