by Christine Cooke Fairbanks | Apr 4, 2024
Curriculum transparency: a burden or benefit for teachers? Written by Strengthening parents’ rights is a worthy policy goal. Parents are a child’s first and natural teachers, and they guide a child’s education thereafter. But it should not become an anti-teacher...
by Christine Cooke Fairbanks | Mar 28, 2024
The influence of family on student outcomes Written by Families have a crucial impact on student achievement. Research bears this out, and it’s well known by those who have been teachers in the classroom. To discuss how the family as an institution impacts...
by Christine Cooke Fairbanks | Mar 21, 2024
How to get curriculum transparency right for teachers Written by Originally published in Utah Policy. According to a newly released Sutherland Institute-Y2 Analytics survey, a majority of likely voters in Utah say it is important that instructional materials and...
by Christine Cooke Fairbanks | Mar 21, 2024
How Utah supports both public and private education Written by Originally published in the Deseret News. A recent Sutherland Institute survey on priorities among likely voters in Utah for 2024 showed that education funding was among the highest priorities....
by Christine Cooke Fairbanks | Mar 14, 2024
Do students benefit academically from curriculum transparency? Written by Efforts to increase transparency of instructional materials used in public school classrooms have focused on preventing controversies. That is, they have focused on checking “rogue teachers”...
