Frank Edelblut

Why did we create @daylight_kids ? Because we have been listening to parents, educators, and doctors about their concerns with screen time for children. We believe that there needs to be a concerted effort to improve the relationship children have with technology.

Anecdotal feedback from parents who use Daylights with their kids: -Kids more present -No tantrums after getting taken away -Fall asleep at night using Daylight -Doing homework/learning outside -Daylight is less intriguing vs playing in the backyard -Large relief for parents A low stimulation screen enables a real childhood without having to go completely tech free.

MORNING JOE SCORCHES DEMOCRATS ON D.C. CRIME DENIAL: "91% of Washington residents say crime is a problem... with black residents and lower-income residents significantly more worried about crime than white residents and those with higher incomes."

BREAKING: Over 10,000 kids signed up and enrolled in New Hampshire’s new school choice program. That's 6% of their total public school enrollment.

Happy UVB day, Southern NH. Get outside, catch some photons, and build vitamin D. Your mitochondria will thank you.

BREAKING: New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte gets a standing ovation after calling for SCHOOL CHOICE during her inaugural address 🚨 "We should give each child the opportunity to be in the education setting that allows them to reach their full potential as an individual."

@RealJamesWoods New Hampshire has something to say about that. forestsociety.org/blog-post/fore…

The Worcester Revolt   On this day in history, September 6, 1774, the Worcester Revolt embodies the real beginning of the American Revolution. You have probably never heard of the Worcester Revolt, but this event that occurred 9 months before the fighting at Lexington and Concord probably deserves the title, the "Beginning of the American Revolution," more so than does the fighting of April 19, 1775.   The Worcester Revolt was one of a series of revolts in rural Massachusetts that took place as a result of the passage of the Massachusetts Government Act. This act was part of the Coercive Acts, or the Intolerable Acts, passed by Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Port Act shut down Boston Harbor, but this did not affect the average person in the Massachusetts countryside where the majority of the population lived.   What got the entire countryside involved was the Massachusetts Government Act, which suspended all town meetings, placed a military governor in charge of the state, called for the royal appointment of all government officials and virtually shut down all self-government.   The citizens of Massachusetts had been governing themselves for 150 years. In rural Massachusetts, the state courts were the primary government bodies that had contact with the average person. These courts handled all local law enforcement and legal matters. When the Massachusetts Government Act was passed, alarm spread through the 95% of Massachusetts citizens who lived in these rural areas, who feared that royally appointed officials would mistreat them. This was especially alarming because so much of the population were farmers with large debts.   Creditors posed a constant threat to the livelihood of farmers, but when the courts were filled with locally elected judges, the farmers could breathe easy because the judges could be thrown out at the next election. The new wave of royally appointed officials would not have to go through re-elections and would have no reason to go easy on the debtors. Much of the population felt a very real threat that these judges would allow their creditors to foreclose on them.   The Massachusetts Government Act took effect on August 1, 1774. Citizens around the colony met and planned to actively resist the new officials. On August 16, when the Crown appointed officials arrived for the opening of the Courts in Berkshire County, 1,500 militia members showed up and forbade the court from opening. The same thing occurred in Springfield two weeks later.   British Governor and General William Howe was determined that the next scheduled Court would open at Worcester on September 6. He even wrote to his superiors in London that force may be necessary. On September 2, 4,000 patriots forced the Lieutenant Governor to resign in Cambridge and when a rumor spread that some patriots were killed by British soldiers, tens of thousands began to march to Boston. This incident, called the Powder Alarm, forced General Howe to reconsider his options.   On September 6, when the 25 royal officials arrived at Worcester, nearly 5,000 mostly unarmed civilians greeted them... in a town of 250 people. The militia had taken over the courthouse and the officials were escorted to a tavern where they were forced to resign their positions. The officials were then made to walk through the throng of protestors toward the courthouse, reciting their renouncements of their positions over and over along the way. General Gage's troops were nowhere to be seen.   The Worcester Revolt typifies the real American Revolution. A similar revolt took place in every single county in Massachusetts outside of Boston in the fall of 1774. It was these revolts that truly ended British rule in the colony and opened the door for citizens to form their own governments.   Thank you, revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com, for this essay.

@DineshDSouza New Hampshire has some history here. forestsociety.org/blog-post/fore…

The “Appeal to Heaven” flag is a revolutionary war flag. It was flown during the American Revolution by frigates commissioned by George Washington, and is a reference to John Locke’s Second Treatise. If it was flown by the Alitos, that shows what learned patriots they are

In advance of #NationalSchoolChoiceWeek, I had the opportunity to address the cruel efforts in Illinois and Chicago to eliminate educational freedom for low-income kids and their families who deserve access to a high quality K-12 education. I joined @danproft and @amyjacobson on @morninganswer to discuss the Illinois legislature shamefully ending the Invest in Kids Scholarship which empowered 9,000 students to have better financial means to access great schools. And now “in the name of equity,” @Chicagosmayor is looking to close schools with top-performing black and Hispanic students. (wirepoints.org/in-the-name-of…) Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson wants to wipe out selective enrollment and magnet schools to transition away from “school choice.” The irony is that according to @Wirepoints, these are schools in which between 70 to 90 percent-plus of black and Hispanic students can read and do math at grade level.  But as the perverse ideology of equity goes, if everyone cannot have access to a good school, then no one can have access to a good school. In New York City in 2013, when school choice faced a similar existential challenge from Bill DeBlasio who was threatening to close public charter schools, Success Academies @moskowitzeva and other leaders in the sector mobilized 13,000 family members to march across the Brooklyn Bridge.  And when DeBlasio remained defiant, the sector mobilized 11,000 family members to head to the state Capitol in Albany in bone-chilling seven degree weather to have an outdoor rally pleading with the state legislature. (politico.com/states/new-yor…) Thankfully, the faces of thousands of low-income families who just want their kids to have a shot at a good education, made all the difference. The state legislature stopped DeBlasio in his efforts and actually created a new pathway for growing public charter schools to have access to real estate to accommodate more students. It is often said that it is darkest before the dawn. I hope leaders in Chicago can learn from our experiences in New York to incentivize thousands of low-income families to exercise their collective power by coming together on behalf of their kids’ educational opportunities.  Sometimes David can beat Goliath, especially when the Davids come together to fight for kids education.

@HannahFrankman Appreciate the thoughtful discussion. Might I premise “good” v “bad” schl is not the 1st ?. I have students doing poorly in “good” schls and students thriving in “bad” schls. Yes, “good” schls, but the first question might be, is it the right school for that learner. @NHEdCommr

How do you choose a school for your kid? I asked Graham Frey, who has been the head of multiple schools (including a boarding school in Arizona, the first-ever online school, and an innovative school in Austin with no teachers). This was his advice:

On the latest episode of @HooverInst #GoodFellows podcast, I had the honor of sharing my Dad’s Jamaican immigrant story - and what it means to be a man - as the inspiration for choosing Shelby Steele’s Content of our Character to be part of the canon at Vertex Partnership Academies high school. Listen to clip below. It was great to join Niall Ferguson @nfergus @JohnHCochrane and @billwhalenCA to discuss public education and the fight to bring great charter schools to communities that need more high quality education options. Full episode here: aei.org/multimedia/a-b…

For the 2nd year in a row, Michaela Community School was first in the entire country of England, posting the  highest progress score on their national GCSE exams across these subjects: English, mathematics, the sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, computer science), history, geography, and an ancient or modern foreign language. On average, Michaela students do 2.4 grades better in each subject than their peers elsewhere did. Outstanding! It is time for education leaders to step back and learn from how @Miss_Snuffy and her entire Michaela team have built a joy-filled culture, and their focus on knowledge-building, direct instruction, and cultivating a sense of personal responsibility and agency with their students. @lehain

After multiple years promoting @ibramxk and his so-called anti-racist ideology that actively encourages racial discrimination, the @nytimes has published an op-Ed entitled “Antiracism Was Never the Right Answer.” Such a profile in courage to now tell the truth, is no doubt propelled by the implosion of Kendi’s Boston University Center for Antiracist Research (which evidently produced no meaningful research despite more than $50 million in donations). nytimes.com/2023/10/05/opi… Hopefully, all the corporations, foundations and education organizations that either financed or adopted Kendi’s toxic ideology have also seen the light. Maybe they will even come to reject Kendi’s equally perverse goal of racial equity, (which has in practice meant lowering standards to try to achieve equal outcomes by racial group). There is another way, a strategy that seeks to achieve equal opportunity by individual, a pathway that prioritizes personal responsibility and Agency, over equity and anti-racism: nypost.com/2022/06/04/her…

Recent results show that 8th-graders' scores declined in both civics and U.S. history in 2022, with civics experiencing its first score drop since 1998. Learn more: 🗳️ Civics: nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/civ… 🏛️ U.S. History: nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ush…

A high school in Louisiana was experiencing a disturbing increase in fights and violence. 23 students were arrested in just 3 days. So a group of dads decided to hang out at the school. They took shifts. All the fights suddenly stopped. There's a lesson in here. 👑

After teaching in the Nebraska public schools for 30 years, Dr. LeDonna Griffin left to launch Leaders to Legends homeschool collaborative in North Omaha. She believes that parent-directed education not only empowers learners and families but builds healthy communities as well.

NAEP results showed that the achievement gap had widened between higher- and lower-performing students in the 10 years prior to the pandemic. Learn about resources to help lower-performing students: nces.ed.gov/nationsreportc… #EdEquity #EdChat

🤦‍♂️Just last week I was like, “I can’t think of the last time I met somebody who still had not heard of @CLT_Exam”

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Families in @FreeStateNH have a lot of education opportunities for their children to learn in. Join @AFPFNH on August 3rd in Manchester to learn directly from education providers of all kinds: homeschool coops, Learn Everywhere providers, private schools, and more. #NHPolitics