Restore Childhood
Natalya Murakhver, Stephanie Edmonds, Robert Pondiscio, Ann Bauer, Elisabete Stone, Garrett Morgan JrNo one is coming to save our kids but us-- a newsletter of stories, reporting, and tools for parents reclaiming the ground institutions gave away.
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15 DAYS: Reviews, Press and Where to Watch
15 DAYS: The Real Story of America’s Pandemic School Closures (2025), directed by Natalya Murakhver
In March 2020, I was a New York City mom with two kids in public school. I spent the next year fighting to reopen schools, and I sued Mayor...
What They Never Knew
Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, around 1902. Library of Congress.
Before 2020, my daughters’ public elementary school in Manhattan had wonderful traditions that nobody thought twice about. The third graders went to Ellis Island for Am...
They Taught Our Kids America Is Only Racist: Eli Steele on White Guilt
Two high school students in Chicago recently wrote a letter to my friend, filmmaker . Their history classes told them that America was racist and oppressive, and nothing more. Nobody taught them why this country is worth defending. On Novem...
Marco Rubio Bumped Me From Fox News (and I’m glad)
Yesterday, I had my hair and makeup done and a seat in the Fox News green room when Marco Rubio took my slot.
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My selfie outside 1211 Avenue of the Americas Fox News. I even got fake eyelashes (don’t laugh).
Fox invited me o...
The Human Rights Campaign Rewards Celebrity Transitions
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) speaks at the 2026 Human Rights Campaign National Dinner on Saturday, Sept. 26. (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)
This week New York Magazine put Ellen Page (now known as Elliot), 39, on one of the co...
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RESTORE CHILDHOOD is a 501(c)(3) co-founded by documentary filmmaker Natalya Murakhver. We protect children's health and education by arming parents with the tools to fight back. WATCH 15 DAYS — over 1 million views: https://www.15daysfilm.com/
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Robert Pondiscio is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on K–12 education, curriculum, teaching, school choice, and charter schooling. He began his education career as a South Bronx public school teacher.
Author of 4 books, including "A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards" and "The Forever Marriage." Essays have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Salon, ELLE and Tablet. Co-founder of Storyalīz, a reading platform with book talk built in.
I am a Christian, a wife, and a mother of three. I became everything my former secular atheist self hated, and now I write about it.
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