Education

Calif. Baptist University Expels Transgender Student for “Fraud”

Another Baptist college has caught the attention of the media for enforcing its stated lifestyle policy. A man who insists he has lived...

Dave Bohon November 6, 2011

Christian University Blasted for Staff Biblical Lifestyle Pledge Policy

Dave Bohon November 4, 2011

A Baptist university in Georgia is receiving abundant media attention for a “Personal Lifestyle Statement“ it recently updated, that requires faculty and staff...

New Education Dept. Statistics Beg Questions on Race, Ethnicity

Beverly K. Eakman November 3, 2011

The U.S. Department of Education’s statistical and testing arm, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), released its latest “progress” report November 1st:...

New Study Shows Public School Teachers Are Overpaid

Bob Adelmann November 2, 2011

Despite the public perception that public school teachers in general are underpaid, Jason Richwine, senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation and co-author...

Federal Student Loans: Borrowing Trouble for Students and Taxpayers

Michael Tennant October 31, 2011

When Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) released his economic plan, which calls for eliminating the U.S. Department of Education, the howls of outrage from...

Anti-bullying Amendments to Education Act Undercut Academics (Again)

Beverly K. Eakman October 27, 2011

All summer long, news sources reiterated complaints about the once-vaunted No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act as being unachievable. Education Secretary Arne Duncan,...

Education’s Armageddon

Beverly K. Eakman October 26, 2011

Just as young people were headed to universities across the nation and the K-12 back-to-school season was percolating in parents’ minds, a front-page...

Rand Paul: Time to Repeal No Child Left Behind

Brian Koenig October 20, 2011

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), son of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul, is moving to combat the ninth reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary...

IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America

Isabel Lyman October 18, 2011

"This is a story of our children and an ideological struggle in which our children are the prize. This is the story of...

Frances Fox Piven Addresses Students at Pa. College

Raven Clabough October 13, 2011

Pennsylvania’s Messiah College provoked some fierce controversy when it invited leftist professor Frances Fox Piven to speak during its annual American Democracy Lecture....

FreedomProject Education: Classic Classes

Dr. Duke Pesta October 12, 2011

Dr. Duke Pesta (left) received his M.A. in Renaissance literature from John Carroll University and his Ph.D. in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature from...

GOP Candidates Pledge to Expel Education Dept.

Michael Tennant October 10, 2011

Before 1980 there was no U.S. Department of Education. Before 1964 there was relatively little federal involvement in education at all. But let...

Report: Education Spending Not Reflected in Test Scores

Raven Clabough September 29, 2011

The lingering institutional wisdom when it comes to education is that increased spending will bring about improved results — even as history continues...