Americans are at last being told the tragic fact that the public schools are failing to teach children how to read.
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It’s many years overdue, but the scandal of widespread illiteracy has finally become a topic of general discussion and debate, from local newspapers to network TV news. Americans are at last being told the tragic fact that the public schools are failing to teach children how to read.
Continue reading →The National Association of Scholars (NAS), the nation’s leading higher-education reform organization, has just published a devastating 65-page report on its investigation of the courses offered and required at 50 top undergraduate colleges and universities.
Continue reading →The movement to legislate English as our official language has nothing to do with what language you speak in your home, church, or club, or what foreign languages you may care to learn. It has to do only with what language is promoted and paid for by the government.
Continue reading →October 1995 A state task force proclaimed this month that “there is a crisis in California that demands our immediate attention.” No, it’s not an earthquake or
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Abolishing the Department of Education was one of Ronald Reagan’s campaign promises when he ran for President in 1980. Fulfilling that promise is long overdue, and the time to do it is now.
Continue reading →The people who control America’s public schools gathered in Minneapolis over the Fourth of July weekend and set off their own brand of fireworks. Some 8,544 delegates to the National Education Association’s annual Convention approved the usual list of extremist resolutions presented by the professionals who run this very political union.
Continue reading →The most controversial words in the education world today are Outcome-Based Education (sometimes called Performance-Based Education, and formerly called Mastery Learning).
Continue reading →When people ask me, what is the most fulfilling thing I’ve done in my whole life, I answer — teaching my six children to read before they entered school.
Continue reading →Outcome-Based Education (OBE) is sweeping the country in the name of school “restructuring.” OBE calls for a complete change in the way children are taught, graded and graduated, kindergarten through 12th grade. Since the American people seem ready to accept drastic surgery on our failed public schools, state departments of education are seizing this opportunity to force acceptance of OBE as the cure.
Continue reading →The polls are now all reporting that “feminism” is a negative word. Women absolutely do not want to be called feminists.
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