Education

SAT Scores Hit Rock Bottom

For many years, I kept track of the SAT scores for my publication, The Blumenfeld Education Letter, as an indicator of the decline...

Sam Blumenfeld September 16, 2011

Is The John Birch Society the “Intellectual Seed Bank of the Right”?

Thomas R. Eddlem September 13, 2011

HuffingtonPost.com columnist Andrew Reinbach expressed concern September 12 that the Tea Party is propagating the ideas of The John Birch Society. In an...

College Asks Students Their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities

Jack Kenny September 4, 2011

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

Raven Clabough September 2, 2011

The Ohio School Athletic Association seems to be taking the non-constitutional maxim of “separation of Church and state” a bit too far. The...

More Wisconsin Teachers Opt for Retirement

Bruce Walker September 1, 2011

Wisconsin public employees unions were not able to stop Governor Walker’s plan to remove benefits from the items subject to collective bargaining. The...

Teacher Suspended for Calling Pupils “Future Criminals”

R. Cort Kirkwood August 29, 2011

A teacher in Paterson, New Jersey, is in boiling water because she told her Facebook friends that some of her students were “future...

Education Secretary Makes Case for Abolishing His Department

Michael Tennant August 26, 2011

Rarely does a government official call for himself — and his entire department — to be canned. But that is, in effect, what...

School Districts Harassed by Secular Group on Issue of Prayer

Dave Bohon August 25, 2011

The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) continues its attack on the constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech and religious expression as it targets...

School Reading List Features Controversial Texts

Raven Clabough August 25, 2011

School reading lists have radically transformed in the last few decades. While students from a generation ago may have spent their summer vacations...

The Real School Scandal

William P. Hoar August 24, 2011

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...

All Detroit Public School Students to Get Free Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks

R. Cort Kirkwood August 22, 2011

Starting this year, all children in Detroit’s public schools, from kindergarten through 12th grade, will receive free breakfast, lunch, and snacks, the school...