Report: Fewer Cultural Conflicts Occurred in Schools Last School Year
While tense school board meetings over cultural and other issues have dominated education news headlines, instances of culture war battles in schools have declined by 42% according to a new report from the CATO Institute. For more than a decade, the think tank has been collecting data on culture war trends in public schooling according to Neal McCluskey, director of CATO’s Center for Educational Freedom. “I am an advocate for school choice and one of the objections to school choice is if we could all choose schools we would be balkanized — everyone would go off to their own kind of school,” McCluskey told Chalkboard. “But there is also the implication that we would be at war with each other.”