You’ve got to hand it to the National Education Association. The NEA’s press people and spin artists know how to manipulate the news. The NEA got widespread national publicity by announcing on Independence Day that it was withdrawing its controversial proposed “New B” resolution regarding “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Education.”
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The NEA got widespread national publicity by announcing on Independence Day that it was withdrawing its controversial proposed “New B” resolution regarding “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Education.”
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A broad coalition of companies, organizations and activists, ranging from Focus on the Family to Ralph Nader, have kicked off a campaign to stop Primedia’s Channel One from exploiting school children for commercial gain. Channel One is the in-school television program with a daily captive audience of about eight million children in 12,000 schools, broadcasting 10 minutes of “news,” music and filler, plus two minutes of advertising for a variety of products and services aimed at youngsters.
Continue reading →Santa Rosa (CA) High School held a “Week of Diversity” on April 9-13 that included 82 presentations by outside speakers. The announcement letter sent to parents permitted them to opt out their children, but said the event was “essential to the exposure and understanding of important topics and teen issues not normally taught in our public school system.”
Continue reading →When President George W. Bush gets around to appointing federal judges, the issue of parental rights should be a major criterion.
Continue reading →Tests, standards and accountability are the watchwords for public school education reform. Such good words! Can they do the job?
Continue reading →Tests, standards and accountability are being advocated as the solution to the problems of public school education.
Continue reading →Two controversial California state laws, enacted last year by a one-vote margin and effective on New Year’s Day, mandate “diversity” teaching at all grade levels in order to promote tolerance of diverse sexual orientation.
Continue reading →Since Bill Clinton stuck his finger in the eye of all who care about American sovereignty and constitutional rights by signing the International Criminal Court (ICC) Treaty on New Year’s Eve, Congress should immediately pass Senator Jesse Helms’s American Servicemembers’ Protection Act.
Continue reading →“School-to-Work” (STW) is bureaucratic jargon for imposing a new paradigm on public schools that de-emphasizes traditional academic studies and replaces them with vocational-technical (Vo-Tech) courses for all students.
Continue reading →Is your schoolchild watching too much television? Eating too many junk foods and drinks instead of what’s healthy? Nagging you to buy expensive sneakers? Too easily swayed by advertising? If so, why are the schools encouraging all those things?
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When the average American family has to work more than four months out of every year to fund all levels of government, it’s time to change the tax system, to make it simpler, flatter, and fairer for everyone
Continue reading →It’s not likely that most people would let their children browse in an “adult” bookstore. But have you ever considered the danger of letting them browse in your local public library?
Continue reading →At its annual convention over the Fourth of July weekend, the National Education Association flung down the gauntlet in its war against school competition, a.k.a. school choice.
Continue reading →The federal antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft has illustrated the evil of monopolies and the tactics that monopolists use to maintain their power. But the biggest monopoly in our midst, the public school system guarded by the teachers unions, seems so far untouchable.
Continue reading →In a televised Public Service Announcement sponsored by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, sibling tennis champions Venus and Serena Williams shared the secrets of their success. According to the champs, their triumphs in tennis would not have been achieved had they used illegal drugs.
Continue reading →Now that three to four million U.S. schoolchildren are using the controversial stimulant Ritalin, its illicit use is providing a powerful kick to college students, too. Dr. Eric Heiligenstein puts it this way: “The study rooms are as good as some of the local pharmacies” at the University of Wisconsin.
Continue reading →Corporate advertisers know that their television audience is dwindling rapidly. It used to be so easy to market their products to tens of millions in neat 30-second segments efficiently placed on the three major TV networks.
Continue reading →Congress is about to pass legislation that will federalize every local school district and spell the end of local and state control of America’s public school classrooms. Mindful of Ronald Reagan’s words, “You can’t control the economy without controlling the people,” Bill and Hillary Clinton have found the way to control the economy by controlling America’s schoolchildren.
Continue reading →Concerns have faded about a Y2K breakdown of government computers, but Americans should be worried about how computer efficiency gives the federal government extraordinary powers to monitor the daily activities of law-abiding Americans.
Continue reading →When Hillary Rodham Clinton charged that Bill Clinton’s impeachment was caused by a “vast right-wing conspiracy,” she displayed the typical paranoia of liberals.
Continue reading →Whole Language means teaching children to guess at words from the pictures or the context, to skip over words the child doesn’t know, and to substitute words that seem to fit.
Continue reading →The nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA), met for its annual convention in Orlando, Florida, over the Fourth of July weekend.
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