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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
Robert Lattimer Eagle Forum Science Issues Chairman reported the Texas Board of Education retained language in the state’s science standards for the critical analysis of life’s development on April 21. In particular, the “streamlined” standards call for analysis of cellular complexity, the origin of DNA, and abrupt appearance and stasis in the fossil record.
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Dr. Karen Effrem tells parents to BEWARE of invasive surveys within Common Core.
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Free speech, of course, is a bad idea. Madness about free speech has been loosed upon college campuses throughout the nation, like a spreading flu. I exaggerate some, but not much. I could cite hundreds of examples, but here are three.
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When I set out for college in 1986, I believed that in the United States of America, a student could choose to become knowledgeable and trained in his own “pursuit of happiness.”
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Micro-aggressions, trigger warnings, and demands for “safe spaces” continue to dominate the campus news from coast to coast.
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April 2017 Eagle Forum Report April 2017 Eagle Forum Report – PDF
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April 1, 2017 Dear Friends: This week held multiple victories for conservatives as Congress used the Congressional Review Act to reject harmful Obama Administration regulations.
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Kathy Wilmot contributed the following on behalf of Eagle Forum of Nebraska: a press release written to educate Nebraskans about various bills including LR6, our Con-Con bill (they refer to as Convention of States) was just prioritized this week.
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As a college president, I have often argued that ideas have consequences. For good or for ill, ideas matter. People are unavoidably blessed or cursed by their guiding principles — by the import of their ideas. In many ways, we inevitably do practice what we preach.
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Bob Lattimer, Eagle Forum’s Science Issues Chairman, submitted an excellent article he wrote titled, “Streamlining” the Texas science standards.
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The Senate confirmed President Trump’s nominee for education secretary, Betsy DeVos.
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A Senate panel is scheduled to vote Monday or Tuesday on President Trump’s nominee for education secretary, Betsy DeVos. Dr. Karen Effrem, Eagle Forum’s Education Issues Chair, encourages continued opposition to DeVos’ nomination.
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Some states, like New Hampshire and Georgia, that had accountability directly to parents scored A+ grades on School Choice Freedom Grading Scale, while other states, like Indiana and Louisiana, that imposed the state standardized tests on private schools received failing grades.
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With the start of a new school year this month, public schools across the nation were all set to enforce new rights for “transgender” students.
Continue reading →If you want to understand the catastrophe of education during the Obama administration, a new book by Dr. Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, is a must-read. His book is entitled Drilling through the Core: Why Common Core Is Bad for American Education.
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