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It's the last week of school. You're staring down field day, the locker cleanout, and the assembly that nobody planned but somehow appeared on the schedule. Your students are checked out. You are checked out. The grading is done, mostly. Everyone is ready.
Mark your calendar: April 18 kicks off National Park Week, and entrance fees at every national park in the country are waived. Free admission to Yellowstone. Free admission to the Grand Canyon.
It’s April. Tax season. Somewhere in your students’ homes, a parent is hunched over a laptop, sorting W-2s, muttering about deductions, and wondering how the number at the bottom of the screen got so big.
Every document and speech in Voices of Liberty earned its place. But Women’s History Month is the perfect time to notice whose voices are present in that conversation—and whose are absent.
When we launched our recent AI Challenge, we wanted to see how students would use artificial intelligence to explore complex civic and economic questions.
If students are going to use AI anyway, we thought we’d build something that encourages them to use it well: to think critically, challenge what comes back, demand sources, and do their own reasoning. That’s how the AI Challenge was born.
One of the most important—and most misunderstood—ideas in American civics is this: Critique of government is not unpatriotic. In fact, it is one of the most American things a citizen can do.
Imagine dropping Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ronald Reagan into a group chat. It would be chaos. Beautiful, passionate, wildly opinionated chaos.
Students (and adults!) make resolutions with genuine hope. But within a few weeks, most of those commitments quietly dissolve. Teachers see this play out every year, and it’s tempting to chalk it up to laziness or lack of discipline.
Every December, while most of us are wrapping gifts and counting down to the holidays, Senator Rand Paul unwraps something else entirely—the government’s annual waste of taxpayer money.
For students, AI technology can feel like a personal tutor, a study partner, or even a friend who “gets” them. But that illusion of friendship may be the most dangerous part of all.
Each November, families across the U.S. gather around tables filled with familiar foods and familiar stories. We might not agree on which side dish is best—or whether football or the parade should play first—but Thanksgiving...
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