Education

Obama Pushes New School Standards

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

Jack Kenny February 23, 2010

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...

An Educator’s Woes

lenorepoe February 1, 2010

After just three years as a Florida educator, I have grown jaded by all facets of education. Between the lack of administrative or...

U.S. Judge Grants Asylum for Homeschooling Family

Rebecca Terrell January 28, 2010

A German homeschooling family is safe on United States soil now that a federal judge has granted them political asylum. Immigration judge Lawrence...

Boston College and Its Radical Feminist ‘Catholic’

Jack Kenny January 8, 2010

For those who had not noticed, Mary Daly died last Friday. Daly was a feminist theologian who taught for 35 years at Jesuit-run...

Berkeley High Poised to Eliminate Science Classes Because They’re Too “White”

Selwyn Duke January 6, 2010

There are some things you just can’t make up — and many of them seem to originate in Berkeley, California. Berkeley really is...

Effort Continues to Oust “Safe Schools Czar”

Jack Kenny December 22, 2009

Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) is not giving up his effort to have Kevin Jennings fired as President Obama's "school safety czar," despite not...

Ballooning Education Bill

William P. Hoar December 21, 2009

ITEM: An MCT News Service article in the Chicago Tribune for November 4 reported: “During a speech … in Madison, Wis., [President] Obama...

8-Year-Old Suspended From School for Jesus Drawing

Thomas R. Eddlem December 15, 2009

Taunton, Massachusetts, public school officials suspended a second grader for drawing a stick figure of Jesus on the cross after his teacher instructed...