Education

Texas Textbook Massacre

New textbook standards approved in Texas are poised to revolutionize public-school curricula nationwide, and liberal educators are furious. Every year the Texas State...

Rebecca Terrell March 17, 2010

Proposed National Uniform Academic Standards?

Raven Clabough March 11, 2010

On Wednesday March 10, a panel of educators coordinated by governors and state school superintendents convened to propose national uniform academic standards. Since...

Gender Agenda: Boys in Girls’ Bathrooms

Selwyn Duke March 7, 2010

There was a time when boys of easy virtue had to content themselves with sneaking a peek at the girls’ swim team during...

To Test or Not to Test? That is the Multiple-choice Question

Raven Clabough March 2, 2010

Standardized testing is a necessary evil. Opponents argue that standardized tests force teachers to “teach to the test,” and as an educator, I...

Atheists Are at It Again!

Raven Clabough March 2, 2010

Christians at a Texas College Campus find themselves in a battle between good and evil as atheists once again “peacefully” express their opposition...

Report Finds College Students Fail Basic Civics Test

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. February 26, 2010

“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it” is one of the most oft-quoted aphorisms of Edmund Burke, an 18th-century Irish-born...

Evidence for Sex/Gender Differences in Cognition

Bruce Walker February 24, 2010

The notion that inherent differences between the sexes do not exist has been part of politically correct thinking for half a century. Government...

Obama Pushes New School Standards

Jack Kenny February 23, 2010

A $14 billion program to improve the education of impoverished students will mean more money for financially strapped state governments — provided the...

Antiwar Catholics on Ash Wednesday

Patrick Krey February 18, 2010

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. — Matthew 5:9 Wednesday February 17, 2010 was Ash...

Is the APA Playing Politics With Sexual Disorder Definition?

Dave Bohon February 18, 2010

In mid-February, the American Psychiatric Association released the latest proposed changes to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), considered the...

Scheme to Nationalize Student-loan Industry

William P. Hoar February 15, 2010

Item: Following the State of the Union address, Bloomberg News reported on January 28 that President Obama “urged the U.S. Senate to join...

Planned Parenthood Advocates Sex Education for 10-year-olds

Raven Clabough February 10, 2010

Fox News reported that the International Planned Parenthood Federation is advocating that children as young as 10 be provided with in-depth sex education,...

Abstinence Education Effective, Study Finds

Dave Bohon February 5, 2010

A study released February 1 by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine is giving proponents of abstinence-only sex education programs reason to...