New Report: "Give Teachers A Break"

Teacher Appreciation Week

During Teacher Appreciation Week, Independent Women released a new report, titled “Give Teachers A Break: Cutting Red Tape to Unleash the Potential of America’s Great Teachers.” The report exposes the reality of victims in the classroom and outlines common-sense practices to enable students to learn and teachers to thrive.

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Education

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Health

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Economy

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Education

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Education

Bring Back Blue Books

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Culture

Education Department New Investigation: Western Carolina University Has Perpetrated a Policy Not Compliant with Title IX

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Payton McNabb Takes Her Advocacy for Fairness in Women’s Sports to Connecticut’s State Capitol

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Iberian Peninsula Power Outage Caused by Renewables

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Takeaways

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley

Regulations

Truth.

  • Eighty-eight percent of senior citizens prefer to age in place at home instead of moving to a senior living facility. However, this is often difficult to achieve due to a shortage of qualified caregivers, restrictive regulations, and affordability.
  • The average cost of full-time, in-home care is around $80,000 annually, and around-the-clock, intensive care can reach $230,000. Medicare does not cover this kind of “non-medical care,” making aging in place unaffordable to most seniors.
  • In-home care also provides companionship. Lack of companionship contributes to loneliness and is linked to depression, anxiety, and chronic diseases. Seniors with companionship have improved mental health and longevity.

By: Heather Madden

Administrative State

Truth.

  • Millions of bureaucrats exercise important political powers while never having to run for election, and voters can only wield democratic accountability over them through presidential elections every four years.
  • On average, the federal bureaucracy’s dismissal process takes 170 to 370 days, and most years, less than 0.2% of the federal bureaucracy is let go from their positions.
  • Since managers cannot easily terminate federal employees for failing to deliver on work targets, the work-from-home arrangement adopted by many agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic further insulates employees from accountability.

By: Inez Feltscher Stepman

National Defense

Truth.

Masculine Characteristics Are Essential to Battlefield Success and National Security
  • In the military, lethality—the capability and capacity to destroy—determines the likelihood of success.
  • The link between men, masculinity, and combat effectiveness, particularly in terms of aggression and lethality, is not just a historical observation but a psychological and physiological one.
  • Controlled aggression is an essential trait for battlefield success, with psychological studies of combat performance demonstrating that when aggression is properly channeled, it enhances a soldier’s ability to engage decisively with the enemy. This trait, often more pronounced in men, provides a strategic advantage crucial for mission success in hostile environments.

By: Meaghan Mobbs

Wage Gap

Truth.

Women and Men Take on Different Roles in Their Families.
  • There’s almost no pay gap for single childless women, but the wage gap begins to widen around age 25, likely due to choices about family roles.
  • Fewer mothers than fathers say they would rather work full time than part time.
  • Overwhelmingly, men work in the most dangerous jobs and those jobs generally pay higher wages.

By: Patrice Onwuka

Innovation

Truth.

Boundless Opportunities Require Innovative, Adaptive Public Policies

    • President Donald Trump released an executive order on January 23, 2025, calling for the creation of AI systems without ideological bias and engineered social agendas.
    • Traditional AI, utilized by Alexa and Google’s search algorithm, conducts specific tasks intelligently without creating anything new.
    • Within ten years, AI has the potential to boost the standard of living for many people and increase gross domestic product (GDP) globally by 7%.

By: Carrie Sheffield

America’s Broken Immigration System

Collateral Damage

The effects of bad border policies ripple through every community. Americans shouldn’t have to bear the burden of this crisis. It’s time for secure borders, legal immigration, and a nation that puts its citizens first. This isn’t about politics—it’s about people.

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Policy Focus

Policy Focus: Free Caregivers and Repeal the Home Care Rule

Heather Madden | May 1, 2025

Policy Focus: Unaccountable Bureaucracy, the Civil Service, and Constitutional Government

Inez Feltscher Stepman | April 7, 2025

Policy Focus: The Role of Masculinity in Military Effectiveness and Lethality

Meaghan Mobbs | March 12, 2025

Policy Focus: Artificial Intelligence

Carrie Sheffield | February 5, 2025

Policy Focus: School Choice in the States

Dr. Keri D. Ingraham | January 6, 2025

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Real Stories About Escaping Gender Ideology

Identity Crisis

With the dramatic rise in youth identifying as transgender, the number of those seeking medical “treatments” has surged. As a one-sided echo chamber pushes an “affirmation-only” model — promoting “preferred” names and pronouns, experimental drugs, and medically invasive surgeries — American children are being left with irreversible damage to their otherwise healthy bodies.

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