Flocabulary
Flocabulary, the grades 3-12 supplemental academic curriculum that features catchy hip-hop music and has been lauded by Oprah’s best friend Gayle King, is...
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Political Correctness at Ole Miss
There are few bastions left against political correctness. Traditions, like the Confederate flag, have become highly controversial despite the fact that those who...
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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...
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Sex “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...
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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...
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The 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...
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Federal 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...
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Home 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. ...
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Are 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,...
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School 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...
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Edwin 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...
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Teach 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...
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A 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...
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Does 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...
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Welcome 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...
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