CFR Task Force Calls for Education Reform
It seems as if the American elite establishment has finally discovered that our public schools are doing a lousy job of educating American children and that a drastic overhauling...
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How a Homeschooler Became a Best-Selling Author
How did Christopher Paolini, a homeschooler from Montana, become one of the world’s best-selling authors? The story of his remarkable career has appeared in The Writer magazine of May...
How Humanist Public Schools Create Dysfunctional Citizens
Everyone wants to know why 24-year-old James Holmes, the killer in the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, randomly shot over 70 people, killing 12 innocent moviegoers. Why did he...
Michigan Parents Sue Schools for Failing to Teach Their Kids to Read
A group of parents in Highland Park, Michigan, have sued the public schools in their district for failing to teach their children to read as required by state law....
Big Brother and Education Data Collection
One of the more disturbing aspects of the U.S. Department of Education is its obsession with data collection. But it all makes perfect sense if you see it from...
John Dewey and the Decline of American Literacy (Part 2)
In John Dewey’s article of 1898, “The Primary Education Fetich,” in which he warned his progressive colleagues that “change must come gradually,” lest it arouse violent resistance on the...
John Dewey and the Decline of American Literacy
After 35 years of research, I can state without equivocation that the prime mover responsible for the change in primary reading instruction, which has led to the decline in literacy...
Attention Deficit Disorder and Other School Quackeries
The purpose of drugging kids with Ritalin, Adderall, and other similar medications is to relieve the disruptive hyperactive behavior these children exhibit in school as their brains are gradually...
How American Public Education Has Become a Criminal Enterprise (Part 3)
Contributing to the delinquency of a minor has long been considered a crime. Parents who have permitted teenagers to drink liquor at parties in their homes have been charged...
How American Public Education Has Become a Criminal Enterprise (Part 2)
In the first part of this article we wrote about crimes committed by the educators against individual children. But these same educators are also guilty of crimes against the...
How American Public Education Has Become a Criminal Enterprise
American public schools are daily guilty of deliberately committing the following crimes: child abuse by deliberately impairing a child’s brain through the use of teaching methods designed to produce functional illiteracy; contributing...
Why Ronald Reagan Couldn’t Abolish the Department of Education
When Ronald Reagan became president in 1981, he tried to abolish the Department of Education, which had been established in 1979 by his predecessor, liberal Democrat Jimmy Carter. Walter...
Teaching Homeschoolers to Restore our Republic
What is education all about? In my view, the purpose of education is to pass on to the next generation the knowledge, wisdom, and moral values of the present...
What Kind of Education Do We Need for the 21st Century?
Students should be taught to confront the main problems that plague the country in the 21st-century: historical ignorance, religious ignorance, and a lack of thinking skills. ...
On the Revival of “Classical” Education
One of the educational ideas that has been restored from the remote past, especially among homeschoolers, is that of a classical education. ...
Can Computers Educate?
The question is, should the computer be used to replace the teacher in educating students, or should the student merely learn how to use a computer? Has the computer...
How Should We Teach Our Children to Write? Cursive First, Print Later!
While this writer's reading program, Alpha-Phonics, has been used by thousands of homeschoolers to produce highly literate children, when it comes to writing, I have to explain to a...
Teen Suicide: Is Death Ed a Cause? Part 3
By now we’ve had about 40 years of death education in the public schools, and the subject has metastasized throughout the entire curriculum as the National Education Association has...
Teen Suicide: Is Death Education a Cause? Part 2
Death educators are quite aware that they are dealing with a highly charged, taboo subject that many students can’t handle. But they are more concerned with making death education...
Teen Suicide: Is Death Ed a Cause?
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) reports that 60 percent of high school students claim that they have thought about committing suicide, and around nine percent of them say...