Some critics have complained that the issue of education has been conspicuously absent from presidential television debates. But the Democratic candidates did sound off with their pro-federal-government, pro-spending policies when addressing the annual convention of the National Education Association, and the nation’s largest teachers union liked what they heard.
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A new grab for power over education now lurking in the corridors of Congress reminds me of a song popular in the Harry James/Frank Sinatra era: “I’ve Heard That Song Before.” Section 3401, inserted by the Senate (but not the House) in the pending America COMPETES Act (S.761), would give us another costly and harmful expansion of the federal education bureaucracy.
Continue reading →“The dropout rate for African-American, Hispanic, and Native American students approaches 50 percent. . . . Every year nearly a million kids fail to graduate high school. . . . The United States has the most severe income gap between high school graduates and dropouts in the world.”
Continue reading →What was the motive behind 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui’s killing of 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech? Why was he consumed with hate, resentment and bitterness?
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Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says that the Federal Government needs some accountability for the billions of dollars the taxpayers pour into university education.
Continue reading →Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says that the Federal Government needs some accountability for the billions of dollars the taxpayers pour into university education. That’s right, we do; but her plan, to set up a national database to track students, plus a system of testing like No Child Left Behind, is not the solution.
Continue reading →The reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Education Act offers Congress a splendid opportunity to enforce parents’ rights that have been outrageously trampled on by the public schools.
Continue reading →Mental health screening of all children is the goal of legislation introduced into many state legislatures this year.
Continue reading →Hillary Clinton has finally announced her run for the presidency. According to her erstwhile friend, political pundit Dick Morris, she will run on the “Mom Strategy” which, he says, “gives her a credible way to tack to the left on the war.”
Continue reading →Marc Tucker’s New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has just received national publicity for a verbose report called “Tough Choices or Tough Times.” It’s larded with criticisms about our “expensive elementary and secondary education system” that produces “only mediocre results.”
Continue reading →The technology industry has dispatched its wallet-filled lobbyists to demand that the new Congress vastly increase the number of foreign computer software techies and engineers who can be imported on H-1B visas.
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With all the public discussion about the values voters (whether they voted in the 2006 election or stayed home), the underlying question is, what is the role of government in defining our culture?
Continue reading →Meth and marijuana aren’t the only drugs parents worry about. The problems caused by prescription combinations called “drug cocktails” have finally broken into the national news stream.
Continue reading →With all the public discussion about the values voters (whether they would vote in the 2006 election or stay home), the underlying (and still unanswered) question is, what is the role of government in defining our culture?
Continue reading →Each year the Supreme Court grants fewer and fewer petitions for “cert,” or review. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just told Mike Wallace on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that “The Court receives over 8,000 applications for review each year.
Continue reading →It took parents 17 years to overturn the tragic 1989 curriculum mistake made by the so-called education experts who demanded that schools abandon traditional mathematics in favor of unproven approaches.
Continue reading →Each year the Supreme Court grants fewer and fewer petitions for “cert,” or review, and now hears only about half the cases it heard 25 years ago. This means that many lower federal court decisions are final.
Continue reading →The liberal press is gloating that the seesaw battle for control of the Kansas Board of Education just teetered back to pro-evolutionists for the second time in five years.
Continue reading →Parents who wonder why the public schools teach so many things parents don’t approve of need look no further than the official policies of the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA).
Continue reading →Parents who wonder why the public schools teach so many things parents don’t approve of need look no further than the official policies of the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA). Meeting in Orlando this year in annual convention over the Fourth of July weekend, the NEA adopted a long series of left-liberal resolutions.
Continue reading →Bush entered the White House in 2001 hoping he would be known in history books as the education president who raised public school standards with “No child left behind.” It now looks like his legacy will be “No illegal alien left behind.”
Continue reading →Assistant Education Secretary for Civil Rights Stephanie Monroe has announced that the Bush Administration is investigating universities that have fewer women in science and math programs than feminists would like.
Continue reading →Assistant Education Secretary for Civil Rights Stephanie Monroe has announced that the Bush Administration is investigating universities that have fewer women in science and math programs than feminists would like.
Continue reading →While the Patriot Act and NSA wiretapping have received enormous attention and criticism from the mainstream media, another federal agency has been quietly gathering far more personal information about Americans than those laws ever can.
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