A high school in Northern California is under fire for vastly overstepping boundaries in its sex education curriculum. A children’s sex education class at Acalanes High School in Lafayette is being...
Class Dismissed, a new full-length documentary film about homeschooling, was screened in the Boston area on December 1, having already been seen by sold-out audiences in November on the West Coast...
The sight-reading method of teaching reading, which was instituted in the 1930s in American public schools to replace phonics, actually causes dyslexia. ...
Teaching kids about Internet porn, stripteases, sexting, using virtual women, and anal intercourse? It's all part of an Oregon sex conference that's funded with your tax money. ...
A Maryland school district has bowed under pressure from Muslim community leaders, electing to remove all references to religious holidays from school calendars. But despite the intention to appease Muslim leaders,...
Under pressure from the Obama administration, Minneapolis school officials want to mete out punishment based on racial quota. It’s part of an effort to reduce the number of suspensions of black...
As parents and educators become increasingly vocal against Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the national movement against the federal standards continues to gain power. ...
Title 1, which is a federal program meant to help poor and minority children succeed in school, has been in place for 50 years, but it still hasn't helped those children....
VIDEO - Dr. Kirsten Lombard talks about her experiences editing "Common Ground on Common Core", the writers, and how she hopes it will get the everyday person to think of how...
VIDEO - Dr. Kirsten Lombard - Editor of Common Ground on Common Core - talks about Common Core, and what's coming down the road on a national level. ...
The sincerity of the “My body, my choice" argument is again being called into question, this time by a phenomenon on college campuses whereby increasing numbers of students accept “post-birth abortion.”...
“Allah is the greatest. I bear witness that there is no God but Allah," reads a handout in Anthony Giannino’s son’s middle school in a passage relating the Muslim call to...
New York State United Teachers has sued the state education department this week over a state stipulation that teachers can be punished for discussing standardized-test items. According to the union, the...
William Deresiewicz, who taught at Yale for 10 years, recommends that students not go to Yale or other Ivy League schools, or even strive to go there. ...
An education expert who heads up a popular online K-12 school is advising parents that they must be vigilant against government intrusion if they want to maintain control over their children's...