New Federal Rules Threaten Independence of Private Colleges and Universities
Keen observers of the political scene have noticed for decades, if not centuries, that when government policies create a problem, officials seldom rescind...
Education
Teachers in Ariz. District Fight for Return of La Raza Program
Earlier this year, a public school district in Arizona eliminated a radical taxpayer-funded La...
New York Study Finds Students Engage in Dangerous Sex
A study in the medical journal, Pediatrics, reported on Monday that 10 percent of...
School Sex Surveys Circumvent Parents’ Wishes
On Friday (Oct. 15), FOX News reported that a middle school in Washington, D.C.,...
Tenure Rears Its Ugly Head Yet Again
Kaukab Siddique, an English professor at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, asserts that the Holocaust...
George Soros Distorts Religious Teachings
If one needed further proof that the public education system is merely a program...
Flocabulary
Flocabulary, the grades 3-12 supplemental academic curriculum that features catchy hip-hop music and has...
Political Correctness at Ole Miss
There are few bastions left against political correctness. Traditions, like the Confederate flag, have...
Cambridge Schools Celebrate Muslim Holidays
Catholic Online reports that Cambridge, Massachusetts, will begin closing public schools for one Muslim...
Schools Track Students with RFID Chips
It appears that in several Houston-area schools, the motto for student security is: “If...
Sex “Ed” Still Hot Topic in Helena
By a 6-3 vote the School Board of Trustees in Helena Montana Tuesday night...
The Race to Centralize Education
Item: An article from the Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky), reprinted in the Miami Herald for...
Federal Govt Drops Abstinence Program
Abstinence is the oldest and most effective method of controlling premarital sex, children born...
Home Schooling in America Grows
Home schooling is growing in America. About three percent of children today are estimated...
Are Americans “Deeply Ignorant” Regarding Religion?
What do most Americans know about various world religions? According to a recent study...
School District Pays for Strip Search for Marijuana
A New Hampshire school district agreed to pay $2,500 to a female former student...
Edwin Newman, Defender of Good English, Dead at 91
When Edwin Newman published his phenomenal bestseller Strictly Speaking, a blurb on the back...
Teach for America — Another Bad Idea
In New Jersey, a program called “Teach for America” is being tested as a...
Does Language Shape Our Thoughts?
The linguistic relativity principle is back in vogue, according to linguist Guy Deutscher of...
A Small Victory for Colorblindness
For over 30 years the middle school in Nettleton, Mississippi, had classified students who...