While NAEP scores hit lows, teachers unions were debating ethical veganism

For me, it was my 10-year old’s lesson on “pansexuality” — a topic that I, a late millennial mother, couldn’t define.

I was sitting at my kitchen counter building Defending Education, an organization I founded to expose the politicization of education and improve learning outcomes. I launched it in part because my intelligent, curious children were inexplicably falling behind basic educational benchmarks — for example, only reading graphic novels.