Provincetown Revising Condoms-for-schoolchildren Policy?
The Massachusetts Cape Cod town of Provincetown will take a second look at a policy the school board adopted back in May that would allow children as young as kindergartners to...
Education
CT High School Removes “Our Lord” Reference from Diplomas
If part of atheistic Communism is to destroy all reference to religion, punish those who practice religion, and replace both with worship of the “almighty” Communist state, then we continue towards...
More Educrat Funds, Dumbed-down Standards
ITEM: Writing in the Washington Post for May 28, the “chair” of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, called for passage of a $23 billion “emergency spending bill.”...
Rhode Island School Bans Toy Soldier Cap
David Morales, a Coventry, Rhode Island, second grader, was recently banned from wearing a patriotic cap he made for a school project to school because it was adorned with plastic toy...
State ‘Kidnapping’ of Swedish Home-schooler Prompts International Outcry
The case of eight-year-old Domenic Johansson, separated from his family by Swedish authorities last year over his parents’ decision to legally home school him, has prompted an international outcry from human...
The Pledge in Spanish Sparks Controversy
A school principal in Wrightstown, Wisconsin, has defended on constitutional grounds the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish at the school. Responding to a letter of protest from the...
Anamika Veeramani Spells “Stromuhr” to Win National Spelling Bee
A 14-year-old 8th grader from Ohio was the third Indian-American child in a row to win the prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee. Once an event of humble classrooms and schools from...
Condemnation of Arizona Laws to be Taught to L.A. Students
The Board of Education of the Los Angeles Unified School District voted unanimously Tuesday to express "outrage" and "condemnation" of Arizona's new law on illegal immigration and another law that prohibits...
At School-year’s End: Why Educators “Don’t Get No Respect”
Despite efforts in some states to counter the now-admitted failures of education policy at the state and federal levels, overall it has been a daunting, brutal, and thankless task. ...
Beck’s Founders’ Fridays Attempts to Undo Revisionists’ Damage
Glenn Beck has been working tirelessly within the past two years attempting to undo the damage done by the modern Progressives (aka, Fabian socialists). According to Beck, the ways in which...
A Closer Look at Textbooks
In the debate over textbook content, the two major points of contention always seem to be the teaching of evolution, and American history overall. Students are schooled to believe that evolution...
Texas Board of Education Gets the Facts Right
For several months, a battle has been waged in Texas over the future of what will be taught in the public schools, and it appears that the momentum is in the...
People’s Republic in the Classroom
The People's Republic of China has been providing much of the capital to keep the U.S. government operating through its purchase of American debt. Now it is helping to shape our...
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 a rosary around his neck. "Many, many students...
Students Sent Home for American Flag T-Shirts
On Wednesday, May 5, five students were sent home from Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California for wearing American flag items on “Cinco de Mayo,” an ethnic Mexican holiday....