Minnesota Department of Education Commissioner Heather Mueller visited the summer learning program Tuesdayat St. Cloud Tech High School. Mueller met with students and staff to discuss the importance of summer learning and the benefits of the program.

Multilingual students participating in a summer learning program are learning interactive, hands-on algebra and coding skills in preparation for high school math and science courses. The purpose of the program is for students to improve their language skills while engaging in science, math and technology concepts.

On Tuesday a class of incoming freshmen were receiving hands-on learning about the effects of alcohol

When educational achievement lags, reformers often ask why schools are failing and look to institutional solutions like testing, teacher preparation, and curriculum reforms.

But striving to ensure quality education for all in the classroom is just part of the answer, education and community development experts said Monday. The rest lies outside of schools, where children spend most of their time and where the divide between the nation’s haves and have-nots is stark — from access to basic needs like housing, food, and health care to enriching activities after school and during vacations.

“We as a society have thrown up

Editor’s note: The following column first appeared in City Journal. 

Portland Public Schools has launched a war against the “gender binary” and adopted a radical new curriculum teaching students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers” and begin exploring “the infinite gender spectrum.”

I have obtained a cache of documents from a source inside Portland Public Schools that exposes the nature of this curriculum. The lessons seek to turn the principles of academic queer theory into an identity-formation program for elementary school students.

The premise is simple: privileged white heterosexuals