Student Suspended for Wearing Rosary in School
"Beads are beads," Superintendent of Schools Eric Ely said about a student suspended from a Schenectady New York middle school for visibly wearing...
Education
Students Sent Home for American Flag T-Shirts
On Wednesday, May 5, five students were sent home from Live Oak High School...
“Teacher Employment” Bill Headed for Senate Vote
Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) told Congressional Quarterly May 4 that a Senate floor vote...
Inside the Texas Textbook Controversy
The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) is embroiled in a battle over textbook...
California Discourages Standardized Testing
Standardized tests are not a perfect tool to measure academic achievement or intellectual ability....
School Snoops on Students at Home Via Computer Camera
The Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, school district lent high school sophomore Blake Robbins an Apple...
Giving Kids Cash to Learn in School
There's an old saying: If you don't have to pay someone to be good,...
Latest Lunacy from Abroad: Children Firing Teachers
Perhaps the best case study in leftism run amuck is England, which in two...
The Value of Liberal Arts Education
“The Death of Liberal Arts” lamented a headline in an April 5 Newsweek.com article...
The New Student-loan Program
President Obama’s plan to help eliminate student-loan payments and minimize college students’ reliance on...
Texas Textbook Massacre
New textbook standards approved in Texas are poised to revolutionize public-school curricula nationwide, and...
Mixed-sex Dorm Rooms, Mixed up World
First it was coeducation.Then it was young men and women in different wings of...
Proposed National Uniform Academic Standards?
On Wednesday March 10, a panel of educators coordinated by governors and state school...
Gender Agenda: Boys in Girls’ Bathrooms
There was a time when boys of easy virtue had to content themselves with...
To Test or Not to Test? That is the Multiple-choice Question
Standardized testing is a necessary evil. Opponents argue that standardized tests force teachers to...
Atheists Are at It Again!
Christians at a Texas College Campus find themselves in a battle between good and...
Report Finds College Students Fail Basic Civics Test
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it” is one of the...
Evidence for Sex/Gender Differences in Cognition
The notion that inherent differences between the sexes do not exist has been part...
Obama Pushes New School Standards
A $14 billion program to improve the education of impoverished students will mean more...
Antiwar Catholics on Ash Wednesday
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. ...