Education’s Armageddon
Just as young people were headed to universities across the nation and the K-12 back-to-school season was percolating in parents’ minds, a front-page...
Education
Rand Paul: Time to Repeal No Child Left Behind
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), son of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul, is moving to combat the ninth reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary...
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IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America
"This is a story of our children and an ideological struggle in which our children are the prize. This is the story of...
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Frances Fox Piven Addresses Students at Pa. College
Pennsylvania’s Messiah College provoked some fierce controversy when it invited leftist professor Frances Fox Piven to speak during its annual American Democracy Lecture....
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FreedomProject Education: Classic Classes
Dr. Duke Pesta (left) received his M.A. in Renaissance literature from John Carroll University and his Ph.D. in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature from...
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GOP Candidates Pledge to Expel Education Dept.
Before 1980 there was no U.S. Department of Education. Before 1964 there was relatively little federal involvement in education at all. But let...
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Report: Education Spending Not Reflected in Test Scores
The lingering institutional wisdom when it comes to education is that increased spending will bring about improved results — even as history continues...
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Canadian Study Confirms Advantages of Homeschooling
A recent Canadian study has confirmed what has been known for over two decades — much to the chagrin of public school officials:...
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School Closed for Teaching Secular Bible Course
School teacher Isaac Moffett asserts that the Bible is not just a religious document, but a primary source of history. He and his...
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SAT Scores Hit Rock Bottom
For many years, I kept track of the SAT scores for my publication, The Blumenfeld Education Letter, as an indicator of the decline...
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Is The John Birch Society the “Intellectual Seed Bank of the Right”?
HuffingtonPost.com columnist Andrew Reinbach expressed concern September 12 that the Tea Party is propagating the ideas of The John Birch Society. In an...
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College Asks Students Their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
Higher education is getting "Curioser and curioser!" as Alice said in Wonderland. Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois, is now asking prospective students about...
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Football Team Penalized for Gesture to Heaven
The Ohio School Athletic Association seems to be taking the non-constitutional maxim of “separation of Church and state” a bit too far. The...
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More Wisconsin Teachers Opt for Retirement
Wisconsin public employees unions were not able to stop Governor Walker’s plan to remove benefits from the items subject to collective bargaining. The...
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Teacher Suspended for Calling Pupils “Future Criminals”
A teacher in Paterson, New Jersey, is in boiling water because she told her Facebook friends that some of her students were “future...
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