Happy Pi Day! What 3.14, Archimedes, and the Constitution Have in Common
Today, March 14, is celebrated by school kids around the world as Pi Day — the holiday in honor of the mathematical constant π, commonly written as Pi. March 14 was...
Education
The Power of Teachers’ Unions
The recent events in Wisconsin, in which unionized teachers behaved like third-world mobs, is a stark reminder of what a grave mistake it was to permit government employees to unionize. Since...
Rhode Island School District Battles ACLU Over Prayer Banner
A Rhode Island school district has decided to fight the ACLU rather than remove a prayer banner that has been displayed in its high school for nearly 50 years. With some...
Catholic Student Group Wins Legal Battle With University of Wisconsin
Chalk up a small victory for religious liberty on campus. On March 7 the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a lower-court decision that granted a Catholic campus...
“Modest” Education Proposal Revealed
Item:An Education Weekblog for February 14, in a piece entitled “Obama Proposes Modest Hike in Education Spending for FY 2012,” reported that “education is a bright spot in an otherwise tight...
Race to the Top Commencement Challenge in Dire Straits
President Obama may be humbled by the dramatically decreased number of schools requesting his presence at commencement ceremonies. Last year, more than 1,000 schools competed to secure a commencement address from...
After Four Decades, Harvard Welcomes ROTC Back to Campus
More than 40 years after Harvard University severed its relationship with the U.S. military’s Reserve Officer Training Corp (ROTC), the elite school announced on March 4 that the program would return...
Texas Groups Offers Scholarship to White Male Minority
Census statistics released earlier this month show that 42 percent of the Texas population is white, non-Hispanic, down from 50 percent ten years ago. As white males are now the minority...
Education’s Implosion Abetted by Unionization of Public Employees
The State of Wisconsin is a microcosm of everything that's wrong in public education, including education policy at the federal and state levels, as well as with the unionization of public...
Anaheim Using GPS to Track Truant Students
The Anaheim Union High School District has a message for students who skip school too often: From now on, Big Brother will be watching you. ...
Homeschooled Wrestler Makes Championship Statement in Refusal to Fight Female
While it may not be readily apparent to many observers, Joel Northrup was a champion in this year’s Iowa High School wrestling tournament. On February 17 the 15-year-old homeschooled sophomore from...
UC-Davis Charges Christianity with Institutionalized Oppression
Only days after a group of deeply religious university students were charged with engaging in a criminal conspiracy to disrupt a speech by a foreign diplomat, a controversy has erupted at...
Youth for Western Civilization
The main attraction at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) each year is not just the speeches given by rank-and-file conservative politicians and celebrities, but rather with what goes on in...
KY Senate Considers Biblical Studies for Public Schools
The Kentucky state legislature is currently considering legislation that would add religion classes to the public school curriculum. On Tuesday, the state Senate Education Committee approved Senate Bill 56, which allows...
Sikh Student Brings “Religious Dagger” to School
Are school children allowed to carry weapons to school? School districts throughout the nation have policies which ban weapons — and even objects that resemble weapons — from school grounds, buses,...