Declining standards in public education. A fortnight ago, my column focused on how Philadelphia's schoolteachers have joined public-school teachers in cities such as Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, Columbus, New York and Washington in changing student scores on academic achievement tests. Teachers have held grade fixing parties, ... MORE
Children are the currency of tyrants. Some friends came to us this week, troubled, to ask our advice. It seems their youngest son came home from school on Monday and asked – begged – to be homeschooled. His request has been a recurrent theme during the past few months, but it took on a particular urgency on Monday when his biology ... MORE
by Dr. Susan Berry. In 2012, terrorist and activist Chicago professor Bill Ayers told his followers that the left had “absolute access to the community, the school… the classroom,” and that is where it should do its “movement-building.” In October of 2009, when speculation had arisen that Ayers had been the real author of Barack Obama’s ... MORE
by Daisy Luther. In the government is not you dept ... The game is called “Cross the Line” and many outraged parents believe that it does just that. A middle school in Marinette, got a group of 5th-8th graders together and organized a really fun game that asked students to step forward to answer “yes” to a series of highly personal ... MORE
Another way no child is left behind. Philadelphia's public school system has joined several other big-city school systems, such as those in Atlanta, Detroit and Washington, D.C., in widespread teacher-led cheating on standardized academic achievement tests. So far, the city has fired three school principals, and The Wall Street Journal ... MORE
by Harriet Arkell. Chronic healthy eating violator apprehended by authorities. A six-year-old boy who went to school with a bag of Mini Cheddars in his packed lunch has been suspended for four days after teachers said it contravened its healthy eating policy. Riley Pearson, from Colnbrook, near Slough, was excluded from Colnbrook C of E ... MORE
Education stagnation vs school choice. My TV producers asked our Facebook audience to vote for a topic they'd most like to hear discussed on my year-end show. The overwhelming winner, for some reason: the education standards program Common Core. Most Americans don't even know what that is. But they should. It's the ... MORE
In the era of the emerging American police state. It wouldn’t be a week in America without another slew of children being punished for childish behavior under the regime of zero tolerance which plagues our nation’s schools. Here are some of the latest incidents. In Pennsylvania, a ten-year-old boy was suspended for shooting an imaginary ... MORE
Great winter reads. As Christmas approaches, the shopping mall can become a shopping maul. One of the ways of buying gifts for family and friends, without becoming part of a mob scene in the stores, is to shop on the Internet. However, for many kinds of gifts, you want to be able to see it directly, and perhaps handle it, before you part with your ... MORE
"The American majority has, it sadly seems, been insulated against all moral shock by generations of public education, moronic popular entertainment, and a carefully cultivated mass cynicism that responds to all outrages with a shrug and a chorus of “They all do it.”
Convicted rapists? Come apply for work at the school. The House of Representatives just passed a bill aimed at keeping convicted sex offenders and violent felons from working in schools. As it heads to the Senate with bipartisan support, the teachers unions are now objecting. Megyn Kelly
asked on her show tonight, “What is the ... MORE
by Nick Gillespie. In the latest example of small-mindedness plaguing our educational system, schools
around the country are attempting to ban costumes and candy on what is
surely one of most kids’ favorite days of the year. The excuses range
from vague concerns about “safety” to specific worries about food
allergies to—get ... MORE