Edwin Newman, Defender of Good English, Dead at 91
When Edwin Newman published his phenomenal bestseller Strictly Speaking, a blurb on the back cover quoted a reviewer who described the erudite author...
Education
Teach for America — Another Bad Idea
In New Jersey, a program called “Teach for America” is being tested as a...
Does Language Shape Our Thoughts?
The linguistic relativity principle is back in vogue, according to linguist Guy Deutscher of...
A Small Victory for Colorblindness
For over 30 years the middle school in Nettleton, Mississippi, had classified students who...
Welcome Back to School; Here’s Your Student REAL ID Card
In what reads like a passage from George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave...
New York Regents Exams Favor Islam
This week, the New York Post exposed the religious bias found within the New...
Teacher Funding Bill Hurts Businesses and the Poor
President Obama has signed into law an emergency appropriations measure intended to provide funds...
Montana School System Wants Sex Education for Kindergarten
Jeff Laszloffy, president of the Montana Family Council, has expressed outrage at a plan...
Pro-Life Group Forcing Americans to “Face the Truth”
Since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision gave women a “choice,” abortion...
The End of the Library with Books?
The July 4 news story in the Boston Globe described a scene that will...
Grade Inflation in American Education
The Boston Globe reported July 4 that students have been studying less in high...
Provincetown Revising Condoms-for-schoolchildren Policy?
The Massachusetts Cape Cod town of Provincetown will take a second look at a...
CT High School Removes “Our Lord” Reference from Diplomas
If part of atheistic Communism is to destroy all reference to religion, punish those...
More Educrat Funds, Dumbed-down Standards
ITEM: Writing in the Washington Post for May 28, the “chair” of the White...
Rhode Island School Bans Toy Soldier Cap
David Morales, a Coventry, Rhode Island, second grader, was recently banned from wearing a...
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...
The Pledge in Spanish Sparks Controversy
A school principal in Wrightstown, Wisconsin, has defended on constitutional grounds the recitation of...
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...
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...
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...