At School-year’s End: Why Educators “Don’t Get No Respect”
Despite efforts in some states to counter the now-admitted failures of education policy at the state and federal levels, overall it has been...
Education
Beck’s Founders’ Fridays Attempts to Undo Revisionists’ Damage
Glenn Beck has been working tirelessly within the past two years attempting to undo the damage done by the modern Progressives (aka, Fabian...
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A Closer Look at Textbooks
In the debate over textbook content, the two major points of contention always seem to be the teaching of evolution, and American history...
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Texas Board of Education Gets the Facts Right
For several months, a battle has been waged in Texas over the future of what will be taught in the public schools, and...
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People’s Republic in the Classroom
The People's Republic of China has been providing much of the capital to keep the U.S. government operating through its purchase of American...
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Student Suspended for Wearing Rosary in School
"Beads are beads," Superintendent of Schools Eric Ely said about a student suspended from a Schenectady New York middle school for visibly wearing...
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Students Sent Home for American Flag T-Shirts
On Wednesday, May 5, five students were sent home from Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California for wearing American flag items...
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“Teacher Employment” Bill Headed for Senate Vote
Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) told Congressional Quarterly May 4 that a Senate floor vote on his Keep Our Educators Working Act of 2010,...
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Inside the Texas Textbook Controversy
The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) is embroiled in a battle over textbook content that, media reports claim, could dictate public school...
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California Discourages Standardized Testing
Standardized tests are not a perfect tool to measure academic achievement or intellectual ability. But standardized tests represent a serious attempt to objectively...
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School Snoops on Students at Home Via Computer Camera
The Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, school district lent high school sophomore Blake Robbins an Apple MacBook laptop last fall, and then utilized security software...
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Giving Kids Cash to Learn in School
There's an old saying: If you don't have to pay someone to be good, then he's probably good for nothing. Harvard economist Roland...
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Latest Lunacy from Abroad: Children Firing Teachers
Perhaps the best case study in leftism run amuck is England, which in two generations has gone from Churchill and churches to hate-speech...
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The Value of Liberal Arts Education
“The Death of Liberal Arts” lamented a headline in an April 5 Newsweek.com article that carried the subhead: “How the recession and unemployment...
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The New Student-loan Program
President Obama’s plan to help eliminate student-loan payments and minimize college students’ reliance on banks was the subject of much controversy, and for...
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