On the Hazards of Teaching Reading (Part 2)
Preschool teaching in America is a horrible mess. Most of the products on the market are of the Mickey Mouse variety that view children as brainless idiots who have to be...
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On the Hazards of Teaching Reading
Recently, some friends of mine with a 4-year-old daughter decided to homeschool and asked for my advice on finding a good preschool program. They had attended the local homeschool convention and...
Humanistic Psychology in the Schools (Part 2)
One of the reasons why we know so much about Humanistic Psychology today is because of the defection of one of its major practitioners, Dr. William Coulson, a former colleague of...
Humanistic Psychology in the Schools
The cultural upheavals of the 1960s saw the rise of a so-called Third Force in American education. The leading figures of the Third Force were humanist psychologists Carl Rogers and Abraham...
Godless Schools Cannot Serve a God-Fearing Nation
Schools that deny God cannot in any way serve a God-fearing nation. Their Satanic aim is to destroy it. The colonists who created our American civilization believed that the Bible would forever be...
CFR Task Force Calls for Education Reform
It seems as if the American elite establishment has finally discovered that our public schools are doing a lousy job of educating American children and that a drastic overhauling of the...
How a Homeschooler Became a Best-Selling Author
How did Christopher Paolini, a homeschooler from Montana, become one of the world’s best-selling authors? The story of his remarkable career has appeared in The Writer magazine of May 2012 in...
How Humanist Public Schools Create Dysfunctional Citizens
Everyone wants to know why 24-year-old James Holmes, the killer in the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, randomly shot over 70 people, killing 12 innocent moviegoers. Why did he do it?...
Michigan Parents Sue Schools for Failing to Teach Their Kids to Read
A group of parents in Highland Park, Michigan, have sued the public schools in their district for failing to teach their children to read as required by state law. The suit...
Big Brother and Education Data Collection
One of the more disturbing aspects of the U.S. Department of Education is its obsession with data collection. But it all makes perfect sense if you see it from the point...
John Dewey and the Decline of American Literacy (Part 2)
In John Dewey’s article of 1898, “The Primary Education Fetich,” in which he warned his progressive colleagues that “change must come gradually,” lest it arouse violent resistance on the part of...
John Dewey and the Decline of American Literacy
After 35 years of research, I can state without equivocation that the prime mover responsible for the change in primary reading instruction, which has led to the decline in literacy in America, was...
Attention Deficit Disorder and Other School Quackeries
The purpose of drugging kids with Ritalin, Adderall, and other similar medications is to relieve the disruptive hyperactive behavior these children exhibit in school as their brains are gradually being injured...
How American Public Education Has Become a Criminal Enterprise (Part 3)
Contributing to the delinquency of a minor has long been considered a crime. Parents who have permitted teenagers to drink liquor at parties in their homes have been charged with this...
How American Public Education Has Become a Criminal Enterprise (Part 2)
In the first part of this article we wrote about crimes committed by the educators against individual children. But these same educators are also guilty of crimes against the nation. Indeed,...