Education
Cambridge Schools Celebrate Muslim Holidays
Catholic Online reports that Cambridge, Massachusetts, will begin closing public schools for one Muslim holiday next year, with schools given two holidays, Eid...
Schools Track Students with RFID Chips
It appears that in several Houston-area schools, the motto for student security is: “If it is works for tracking cattle, it will work...
Read moreSex “Ed” Still Hot Topic in Helena
By a 6-3 vote the School Board of Trustees in Helena Montana Tuesday night approved a modified version of a sex education plan...
Read moreThe Race to Centralize Education
Item: An article from the Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky), reprinted in the Miami Herald for September 21, asserts: “Students from poor families would feel...
Read moreFederal Govt Drops Abstinence Program
Abstinence is the oldest and most effective method of controlling premarital sex, children born out of wedlock, the spread of venereal disease, and...
Read moreHome Schooling in America Grows
Home schooling is growing in America. About three percent of children today are estimated to be home-schooled and that number is growing. ...
Read moreAre Americans “Deeply Ignorant” Regarding Religion?
What do most Americans know about various world religions? According to a recent study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life,...
Read moreSchool District Pays for Strip Search for Marijuana
A New Hampshire school district agreed to pay $2,500 to a female former student who was forced to partially undress in front of...
Read moreEdwin Newman, Defender of Good English, Dead at 91
When Edwin Newman published his phenomenal bestseller Strictly Speaking, a blurb on the back cover quoted a reviewer who described the erudite author...
Read moreTeach for America — Another Bad Idea
In New Jersey, a program called “Teach for America” is being tested as a tool for addressing the manifest failure of public schools...
Read moreA Small Victory for Colorblindness
For over 30 years the middle school in Nettleton, Mississippi, had classified students who wished to run in student elections by race. One...
Read moreDoes Language Shape Our Thoughts?
The linguistic relativity principle is back in vogue, according to linguist Guy Deutscher of the University of Manchester, writing for the New York...
Read moreWelcome Back to School; Here’s Your Student REAL ID Card
In what reads like a passage from George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the government public school district for New...
Read moreNew York Regents Exams Favor Islam
This week, the New York Post exposed the religious bias found within the New York State Regents exams. According to the Post, “State...
Read moreTeacher Funding Bill Hurts Businesses and the Poor
President Obama has signed into law an emergency appropriations measure intended to provide funds to stop teacher layoffs and to provide aid to...
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