SAT Scores Decline in NYC Schools
SAT scores continue to decline in New York City schools. As NBCNewYork.com reports: "It's a sad state for standardized tests. City and state...
Education
Tourism in Afghanistan?
With the completion of a new Tourist Information Center in the isolated Bamiyan Valley, local officials, residents, foreign donors, and a handful of...
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Obama Education Dept. Announces “Race to the Top”
The Department of Education on July 24 featured a live video webcast where President Barack Obama, as the closing speaker, summed up the...
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Pope Calls for “World Political Authority”
Pope Benedict XVI called for a “true world political authority” to manage the economy in his new encyclical on social justice. The encyclical,...
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NASCAR’s Homeschooled Star
This past weekend, Joey Logano became the first home scholar to win a NASCAR Sprint Cup series race. Who said that homeschoolers, numbering...
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JBS Brings Optimism to Fox’s “Freedom Watch”
John Birch Society President John F. McManus brought a level of optimism to the freedom fight when he told the Fox News Network’s...
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Teachers Paid to do Nothing
In this age of budget woes and bailouts, it may surprise some to hear that governments are paying workers to do nothing. Yet...
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What? Even Charter Schools Got “F’s”?
After decades of hand-wringing over nonexistent or, at best, mediocre gains in student academic achievement, the most noticeable thing to come out of...
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English as the Official Language Has Broad Appeal
There are 322 languages spoken in the United States, but the people have selected one lingua to rule over them all. ...
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Fr. Hesburgh Took Notre Dame Off Course
Notre Dame University went ahead with both the honorary degree and the commencement speech for pro-abortion President Barack Obama despite a multiplicity of...
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Education, Policies & Promises
President Obama has outlined an education policy that would accelerate past federal education policies and failures: it would increase the money spent on...
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Speaking Up About the Day of Silence
Today marks the 13th annual “Day of Silence,” an activist endeavor ostensibly designed to draw attention to the “problem” of “anti-gay/lesbian/bi-sexual/transgender bullying.” Now...
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Will the Stewart/Cramer Battle Be the Death of CNBC?
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart has struck again, this time perhaps landing a mortal blow on the ratings-troubled NBC financial cable network, CNBC. The...
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Americans Score an “F” in American History
On November 20, 2008, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) released a report entitled “Our Fading Heritage: Americans Fail a Basic Test on Their History...
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Kindergarteners Asked to Sign “Gay Pledge” in Calif.
Outrageous moves by pro-homosexual educators in California in the weeks leading up to the November 4 elections may end up inadvertently helping pass...
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