Critics: Advanced Placement History Standards Promote Leftists’ Cause
By testing students' "opinions" about American history, the Advanced Placement History Standards test promotes liberalism and a warped view of U.S. history. ...
Education
Proposed Federal Tuition-free Community College Likely to Be a Bust
In its early stages on the state level, free tuition seems to be working. But just let the federal government provide it, and the results could be vastly, drastically, different. ...
R.I.P. Samuel Blumenfeld: Author, Master Educator, Champion of Freedom
Millions of people who can read today owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Samuel L. Blumenfeld, America’s foremost apostle of phonics over the past half century. ...
Homeschooling Up 62 Percent Over a Decade
Between 2003 and 2012, the number of American children being homeschooled rose nearly 62 percent, according to U.S. Department of Education estimates. ...
Obama’s Education Secretary Touts Government Boarding Schools
In yet another scheme by the federal government to usurp an ever-expanding role in childrearing, the Obama administration’s top education bureaucrat, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, called last week for government boarding...
Boston U. Professor: White Males a “Problem Population”
That “white masculinity is THE problem for America’s colleges” wasn't the only anti-white comment made by Boston University professor Saida Grundy. Despite this, the school defended her, saying that she was...
Int’l Tests Show U.S. Students Poor in Math, Civics, Literacy
Students' test scores continue to reflect the failure of public education in America. But former U.S. Representative George Nethercutt's solution also fails. ...
Schools Using Millions in Tax Money to Teach “White Privilege” and Black Stereotypes
Plumbing the politically correct depths to explain why black and Hispanic students lag behind whites academically, a leftist education group is teaching that minorities shouldn't be subject to "white values" such...
Feds Panic on Mass Common Core Test Refusals, Threaten Reprisals
Public resistance to Common Core is exploding across America, and officials are not happy about it. The Obama administration’s Department of Education, along with pro-Common Core government officials across the country,...
North Carolina Senate Passes Bill Requiring Teaching of Founding Principles
North Carolina's State Board of Education would require that students learn principles that were fundamental to the founding of the United States, if legislation now being considered in the Tar Heel...
Hi-Tech Entrepreneurs Seek Golden Opportunities in Education
The recent annual ASU-GSV conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, drew 270 companies, including Google and Microsoft, looking for the next big thing in education. ...
Tennessee to “Replace” Common Core, But It Will Likely Be Back
Lawmakers in Tennessee voted overwhelmingly this week to “review and replace” the Obama administration-backed Common Core standards, which have sparked a nationwide uprising among teachers, parents, and taxpayers that transcends traditional...
Elementary School Transgender Lesson Draws Parents’ Ire
Horace Mitchell Primary School in Kittery Point, Maine, is under fire for presenting a lesson from a book on transgenderism to its students without providing advance notice to parents. Superintendent Allyn...
N.J. Teacher Reinstated After Suspension for “Anti-Gay” Facebook Posts
Somerville, New Jersey, high school teacher Patricia Jannuzzi was suspended on March 13 after several of her Facebook postings against same-sex marriage and the “gay” political and social agenda. ...
Atlanta School Cheating Scandal Is Just Tip of the Iceberg
A massive conspiracy among government-education officials in Atlanta to inflate student test scores by cheating resulted this week in seven-year prison sentences for some of the conspirators, convicted by a jury...