Silicon Valley Girls: Do Women Need Affirmative Action in Tech Industries?
Women are still "underrepresented" in science, technology, engineering, and math, and the social engineers are none too happy about it. And they're bent...
Education
Little Boy Suspended for Pretending to Have Lord of the Rings Magical Powers
In an unauthorized exercise of imagination, a nine-year-old boy said he could make a...
Schooling for World Government: UNESCO’s Global Citizenship Education Forum
Hundreds of educators and officials from around the world met at UNESCO headquarters in...
California Common Core: Kids Graded on “Gratitude,” “Sensitivity to Others”
The United States may be producing only one-tenth as many scientists as does China,...
Crazy on Campus: U.S. Colleges — Where Truth Is Always Stranger Than Fiction
While George Orwell once said, “There are some ideas so absurd that only an...
Shut-up, White Boy! Professors: White Men Should Speak Last
An all-female university panel of professors and activists has an idea for combating "sexism"...
Punishing Success: Basketball Coach Suspended for Beating Opponents Too Badly
Call it athletics Marxism: In line with the growing trend toward "no-score" sports, a...
Obama Proposes Two “Free” Years of Community College, Taxpayer-Funded
President Obama proposed Thursday making two years of community college free for all students....
Education Expert Says College Freshmen Read at Seventh-grade Level
Dr. Sandra L. Stotsky, professor emerita at the University of Arkansas, recently said that...
Michael Brown in the Classroom: The Schools Where Truth Doesn’t Matter
From an elementary school that had second-graders protest the Ferguson grand-jury decision to law...
School Districts Bribing Kids to Buy Washington-approved Lunches
In an effort to reverse declining school-lunch sales, at least two school districts have...
Parents Enraged by H.S. Sex Education Curriculum Taught by Planned Parenthood
A high school in Northern California is under fire for vastly overstepping boundaries in...
“Class Dismissed”: New Film Promotes Homeschooling
Class Dismissed, a new full-length documentary film about homeschooling, was screened in the Boston...
Sight Method of Teaching Reading Causes Dyslexia
The sight-reading method of teaching reading, which was instituted in the 1930s in American...
The Taxpayer-funded Sex Conference That Twists Your Kids’ Minds
Teaching kids about Internet porn, stripteases, sexting, using virtual women, and anal intercourse? It's...
School District Removes Religious Holidays From School Calendars
A Maryland school district has bowed under pressure from Muslim community leaders, electing to...
Too Many Minority Students Misbehaving? Solution: Stop Punishing Them
Under pressure from the Obama administration, Minneapolis school officials want to mete out punishment...
National Opposition to Common Core Continues to Grow
As parents and educators become increasingly vocal against Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the...
Fifty Years of Title 1: Has It Worked?
Title 1, which is a federal program meant to help poor and minority children...
Dr. Kirsten Lombard, Editor of Common Ground, on Common Core
VIDEO - Dr. Kirsten Lombard talks about her experiences editing "Common Ground on Common...