There have been a lot of recent attempts to get phones out of schools. The data make clear that phones inhibit students’ learning, cause and exacerbate discipline issues, and harm students’ mental health.
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President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats promise that their $3.5 trillion spending bill will “transform our economy.”
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Critical Race Theory is the civil rights issue of our time. It eats away at our public, private, and Christian academies with its cancerous messages about white privilege, minority disadvantage, and perennial racism.
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The greatest threat to religious liberty in America today is the increasingly militant and extreme secular-progressive climate of our state-run education system.
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The history we teach our children cannot solve all of our problems, nor should we expect it to. But it can provide a factual foundation for discussing current challenges and seeking solutions, while educating a new generation about America’s remarkable heritage and what brings us together as one people. Unfortunately, all too often, that is not the type of history we are providing our students.
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I generally assume positive intent, but that approach is being pushed to its limits by the advancement of the New York Times’ 1619 Project in schools. I cannot understand the goal of a growing number of school districts — those charged with administering curricula to thousands of schools — agreeing to use the 1619 Project as part of their history lessons.
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The Harmony Public Schools are taxpayer-funded charter schools in Texas. In 2011, a Texas legislator filed a bill that would allow charter operators to use the Permanent School Fund to guarantee school construction bonds.
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Back to November 2019 Eagle Forum Report by Peyton Wolcott, founder of a successful grassroots public school check register transparency project. Twenty years ago, about
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A push for more school-based mental health interventions has increased after recent high profile school shootings. One controversial and inaccurate mental health screening instrument is, “TeenScreen”, which is a 14-question computerized survey.
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Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Department of Education Secretary, recently signed a declaration that places education “at the centre of the global agenda.” This step moves the U.S. toward a world government with the loss of our inalienable freedoms.
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Over the last several years, testing has been a major point of contention between parents and the education establishment (both federal and state). Especially as states have responded to federal mandates by administering unvalidated assessments aligned to the Common Core national standards, parents across the country have begun, with varying degrees of success, to opt their children out of those assessments. The Every Student Succeeds Act perpetuates the federal testing mandates, so the opt-out movement will continue.
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We live in a porn-saturated digital world. The Google Play Store, which distributes apps to Android tablets and smartphones, discovered over 60 gaming apps for young people that display pornography. Did you know that it’s possible to search for pornography through the Bible app by accessing Twitter? Were you aware of the backdoor on Kindle Fire tablets to a web browser if you do not disable pop-ups?
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I own an addiction counseling center designed to help those who struggle with compulsive porn watching or acting out sexually. I receive phone calls every day from people who have reached a crisis point in their lives, but one particular call stopped me in my tracks.
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The Left need not depend on sociology and women’s studies faculty to radicalize our children; it’s being done quite effectively in student centers and residence halls.
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The most underappreciated political story of our time is the changing content of K-12 textbooks in history, civics, and social studies
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On February 2, 2017 I discovered the lifeless body of our 24-year old son, Thomas, sitting in a chair in our basement. He was the latest victim of the Opioid Crisis. An estimated 64,000 died of drug overdoses in the USA in 2016, and the majority were due to opioid pain medicines.
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I am hopeful and optimistic about our future. Why? Because our Founders knew that knowledge is power. Our Founders understood the power of transparency, and they wrote it into the U.S. Constitution. Article I, Section 9 states “. . . a Regular Statement and Account of Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”
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Under the guise of giving states and school districts more local control, Every Student Succeeds Act has instead greatly expanded the federal government’s role in the medicalization of education.
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Students can no longer attend public schools and expect to get a broad based academic education. Instead they are pawns of Big Government and Big Business.
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At a free speech symposium recently held at the University of Missouri, CNN commentator Sally Kohn argued that pro-free speech advocates are merely trying to stifle diversity on our respective college campuses.
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The government wants to dictate and monitor the feelings of schoolchildren, regardless of the violations of conscience and privacy involved.
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K-12 science standards in all states contain performance expectations on biological evolution (macroevolution, or descent from a common ancestry). All state standards (including the Next Generation Science Standards) present unguided evolution as the only explanation for the development of life starting from single-cell ancestors.
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On February 7, 2017 Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced H.R. 899, a bill to abolish the federal Department of Education. The bill, which is one sentence long, states, “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018.”
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Schools of Mischief: Using Schools To Retrain Kids’ Emotions — What Could Possibly Go Wrong? / Academic Freedom in K-12 Science Education /
Defund the Department that Does Not Educate
