At long last, a federal commission is trying to deal with the feminist regulatory outrages committed in the name of Title IX. The recommendations passed on January 30 by the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics are a timid start on the rocky road back from bureaucratic mischief-making, but we still have a long way to go.
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President Bush is celebrating the first anniversary of his No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Education bill and hopes it will give a significant boost to his re-election in 2004.
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The feminist movement has had an immense effect on American culture, laws, education and social relationships.
Continue reading →Bilingual education plays into the hands of the open-borders faction of both political parties.
Continue reading →Hooray for Hootie! At last we have a real man who can resist the histrionics of the pushy feminists. It’s so refreshing to know that somewhere there is an American man willing to stand his ground — on any issue — and tell the feminists he is not going to knuckle under to their nagging, extortion, pressure tactics or media tantrums.
Continue reading →New York City schoolchildren start this fall’s classes at a cost to the taxpayers of $11,000 per pupil. They will eat more school lunches (800,000) than any institution except the armed forces and ride on more buses than the city’s public transportation system.
Continue reading →The National Education Association (NEA) adopted several new goals at its annual convention held in Dallas over the long Fourth of July weekend. No, they don’t have anything to do with improving schoolchildren’s reading, writing or calculating skills.
Continue reading →The National Education Association (NEA) adopted several new goals at its annual convention held in Dallas over the long Fourth of July weekend. No, they don’t have anything to do with improving schoolchildren’s reading, writing or calculating skills.
Continue reading →The atheists overplayed their hand. After their string of victories banning prayer and the Ten Commandments, they must have thought the time was ripe to get rid of God in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Continue reading →The Florida Parent-Educators Association has grown from a handful of parents 15 years ago to a three-day convention with 100 workshops, 131 booths selling curricula and software, high school graduation ceremonies, and a college scholarship to Harvard.
Continue reading →If there ever were a time when the American people need heroes, that time is now. Fortunately, we don’t have to invent a hero. The man who should be honored as our greatest American is the Father of Our Country, George Washington.
Continue reading →Diversity, multiculturalism, tolerance, and political correctness are the watchwords in colleges and universities today. The campus thought police have defined those words to enforce the liberal leftwing agenda.
Continue reading →The INS didn’t learn any lessons from its embarrassing approval of student visas for the two dead terrorists who flew the planes into the World Trade towers on September 11.
Continue reading →Many parents assume that the tests given to their children in public school are only for educational purposes. To the contrary, for many years schools have been demanding that students answer nosy questions about their personal behavior and attitudes, about what goes on inside the family, and even about the behavior of relatives.
Continue reading →Public schools seem to be obsessed with requiring students to fill out nosy questionnaires. The latest outrage, entitled “How Am I?”, asked 55 intrusive questions of New Jersey 7th and 8th graders.
Continue reading →Behind frequent protestations by public officials about local control of the schools, a federal curriculum has been quietly imposed by law.
Continue reading →How the subject of evolution is treated in the classroom has emerged again as a source of controversy, this time in the Ohio State Board of Education. Until now, Ohio public schools have not mandated any direct teaching about the subject.
Continue reading →One of the unintended consequences of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 was the dashing of feminist hopes to make America a gender-neutral or androgynous society. New York City’s fireMEN dared to charge up the stairs of the burning Twin Towers, and the firefighters’ death tally was: men 343, women 0.
Continue reading →As Congress returns to Washington this January, no business is more important than making our borders secure from potential terrorists. So much needs to be done, but a good start would be speedy passage of the Visa Entry Reform Act (H.R. 3229) sponsored by Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA).
Continue reading →The Bush Administration has adopted the approach proclaimed by Bill Clinton in a speech in Chicago on January 22, 1997: “We can no longer hide behind our love of local control of the schools.”
Continue reading →Many parents assume that the tests given to their children in public school are only for educational purposes.
Continue reading →The U.S. State Department grants over a half million student visas a year even though student visas are known to be a tremendous source of fraud.
Continue reading →A teacher re-certification system, under which public school teachers take special “development” courses to boost their knowledge and teaching skills, was started a year ago in Illinois.
Continue reading →Students starting college this fall need survival instructions to enable them to understand the jargon and prepare for the challenge of strange encounters.
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