Education
College Asks Students Their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
Higher education is getting "Curioser and curioser!" as Alice said in Wonderland. Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois, is now asking prospective students about...
Football Team Penalized for Gesture to Heaven
The Ohio School Athletic Association seems to be taking the non-constitutional maxim of “separation of Church and state” a bit too far. The...
Read moreMore Wisconsin Teachers Opt for Retirement
Wisconsin public employees unions were not able to stop Governor Walker’s plan to remove benefits from the items subject to collective bargaining. The...
Read moreTeacher Suspended for Calling Pupils “Future Criminals”
A teacher in Paterson, New Jersey, is in boiling water because she told her Facebook friends that some of her students were “future...
Read moreEducation Secretary Makes Case for Abolishing His Department
Rarely does a government official call for himself — and his entire department — to be canned. But that is, in effect, what...
Read moreSchool Districts Harassed by Secular Group on Issue of Prayer
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) continues its attack on the constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech and religious expression as it targets...
Read moreSchool Reading List Features Controversial Texts
School reading lists have radically transformed in the last few decades. While students from a generation ago may have spent their summer vacations...
Read moreThe Real School Scandal
Item: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for July 13, in an account on the city’s recent school cheating scandal, reported: “Pressure to meet testing targets...
Read moreAll Detroit Public School Students to Get Free Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks
Starting this year, all children in Detroit’s public schools, from kindergarten through 12th grade, will receive free breakfast, lunch, and snacks, the school...
Read moreAn “Extreme Makeover” for U.S. Education — Can We? Should We?
This is the seventh and final segment in the series on K-12 education. A front-page August 16 Washington Times’ headline screamed: “Scores show...
Read moreN.C. University Puts Out List of “Gay Friendly” Churches
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington has put out a list of “gay friendly” churches in the area to assist students and...
Read moreMainstreaming Progressive Education: A Scheme Hidden in Plain Sight
This is the sixth segment in a series on K-12 education. Although John Dewey, the originator of “progressive education,” defied most of the...
Read moreGeorge Washington: The Latest Casualty of Progressive Education
Most voters today no longer remember a time when the tenets of “progressive education” were not part of their everyday lives. It no...
Read moreFreedomProject Education: In the Tradition of the Founders
FreedomProject Education, the educational arm of the American Opinion Foundation, responded to requests by parents and teachers to create a curriculum that provides...
Read moreBloomberg Now Pushing Condoms on Students
Now that children in New York are learning that a couple named Bruce and Trevor can “marry,” they’re going to learn the fine...
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