Insights
Insights: analysis, research, and informed commentary from Sutherland experts. For elected officials and public policy professionals.
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Q&A: Junior Achievement is for home-schoolers too
Junior Achievement is a nonprofit that aims to help elementary and secondary students – in traditional or nontraditional school settings – learn principles of finance, economics and entrepreneurship.
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How the U.S. Constitution is like the mast of Ulysses’ ship
An obvious feature of the U.S. Constitution – the fact that it is written – provides significant benefits to citizens.
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Can confidence in higher education be renewed with choice and innovation?
Some institutions of postsecondary schooling – like UVU and BYU-Pathway Worldwide – are already making strides in reducing the cost to acquire employable skills.
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Does AI belong in home schooling?
One group seems especially open to the potential uses of generative AI: home-schoolers. They are already open to doing things differently, and they need curriculum resources.
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Abortion coverage lawsuits could be avoided with better religious accommodation
The religious organizations in these cases will have U.S. Supreme Court precedent on their side.
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Can free market thinking improve education policy?
Public policy and culture are shifting with the increased interest in new education choices, and AI is making its way into the classroom.
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FBI should be able to target extremists without smearing people of faith
A now-retracted FBI field office memo discussing possible threats of extremism from “radical-traditionalist Catholics” has created serious concern about targeting religious practices.
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Should we stop talking about ‘polarization’ in education policy?
Viewing today’s education policy issues outside of the framework of right-left politics may help us find our way forward in education reform.
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Helping parents address chronic absenteeism
Utah education leaders and researchers note that there is no single reason to explain the uptick in absenteeism – the reasons are as varied as the students and families.
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History of parent-driven education: Part 7 – Today’s post-pandemic era to the future of parent-driven options
While all states have accepted the responsibility of creating a universal, “free” (tax-supported) education system, some states see that the objective can now be met while including a range of options.