Insights & Takeaways
Insights & Takeaways is Sutherland Institute’s official blog that informs the public and policymakers alike. The blog addresses important issues through the two distinct yet complementary lenses of the seasoned policy professional and the engaged citizen.
Insights: analysis, research, and informed commentary from Sutherland experts. For elected officials and public policy professionals.
Takeaways: the most important things voters need to know. For civically engaged citizens.
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Civics education is a hot topic – here’s how the 2021 Legislature handled it
Read More: Civics education is a hot topic – here’s how the 2021 Legislature handled itCivics education is top of mind for many Americans. Because of the unrest of last year and this one, it’s become a new hot topic in education reform.
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Hot-button issue of equality in 7-12 standards
Read More: Hot-button issue of equality in 7-12 standardsEquality remains a hot-button issue in America today. Students are hearing about and navigating the topic of equality now more than ever before. Are they equipped? The public school system…
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The conflicts and controversies behind the Equality Act
Read More: The conflicts and controversies behind the Equality ActThe basic aim of the Equality Act would be to add two new categories – sexual orientation and gender identity – to the protections of these earlier laws. Isn’t this…
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Do education standards help students’ media literacy?
Read More: Do education standards help students’ media literacy?Free discussion is key to a functioning republic. And free discussion is often enabled and disseminated through media, so long as freedom of the press is alive and well.
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Sutherland Institute supports SB 244 – Student Religious Accommodations Amendments
Read More: Sutherland Institute supports SB 244 – Student Religious Accommodations AmendmentsWe believe this is an ideal approach to implementing these important measures as it would do so without unnecessarily dictating specifics to the Board of Higher Education or the state’s…
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Conscientious objector cases show how religious freedom is connected to other rights
Read More: Conscientious objector cases show how religious freedom is connected to other rightsWhether protecting deeply held moral beliefs about animal rights, healthcare, abortion or military service, the right to conscientious objection is an important example of how the efforts of people of…
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‘Public schools are not religion-free zones’
Read More: ‘Public schools are not religion-free zones’Being truly educated means students understand one of the most powerful forces in the world: religion. This is part 13 in Sutherland’s new series that seeks to examine how Utah education standards…
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Sutherland Institute encourages Utah legislators to pass SB 195 – Emergency Response Amendments
Read More: Sutherland Institute encourages Utah legislators to pass SB 195 – Emergency Response AmendmentsThe following statement was delivered to all members of the Utah Senate on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. 2SB 195 was passed unanimously in the Senate after being amended during floor…
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Civics lessons from Black Americans: Ida B. Wells and Frederick Douglass
Read More: Civics lessons from Black Americans: Ida B. Wells and Frederick DouglassIda B. Wells and Frederick Douglass represent just two of the countless Black Americans who we can learn from as we tackle today’s urgent political and policy problems.
