Jonathan Butcher

Jonathan Butcher is the Will Skillman Fellow in Education at The Heritage Foundation (heritage.org).

April 1, 2014: China's President Xi Jinping speaks to the College of Europe, at the Concert building in Bruges, Belgium.

Opinion

September 6, 2022

Biden ignores China's infiltration of US universities

Washington isn't paying close enough attention to China's infiltration of U.S. colleges and universities, which is troubling given the influence donors often have over schools.

Robb Elementary School makeshift memorial

Opinion

June 7, 2022

Biden rejected school safety measures without a plan

Biden rejects local school safety plan that gathered ideas from around the country. Admin needs to abandon the D.C.-knows-best attitude to protect students.

Classroom

Opinion

April 14, 2022

New Jersey schools want to talk to kids about sex—and keep it a secret

Helping your child with math homework after school? Good idea. Reading to her before bed? Great.

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Angry parents and community members protest after a Loudoun County School Board meeting was halted by the school board because the crowd refused to quiet down, in Ashburn, Virginia, June 22, 2021. Loudoun has been roiled for months by accusations that it has embraced critical race theory, a school of thought that maintains that racism is ingrained in U.S. law and institutions and that legacies of slavery and segregation have created an uneven playing field for Black Americans. The school system says it is simply training teachers, the majority of whom are white, to be "culturally responsive" to serve the county's increasingly diverse student population. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo/File Photo

Opinion

October 7, 2021

Butcher & Gonzalez: Biden's Justice Department clueless that censoring parents is sure to end badly

Over the last year, parents have been attending school board meetings in large numbers to object to prolonged closures, as well as educators’ use of Critical Race Theory to promote racial prejudice.

Jonathan Butcher: Biden and critical race theory – how to fight back amid admin's confusing mixed signals

Opinion

August 17, 2021

Jonathan Butcher: Biden and critical race theory – how to fight back amid admin's confusing mixed signals

So does critical race theory have something to offer besides racial discrimination? Are teachers including the theory in instruction? And do teachers need it for history classes or not?