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.
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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 →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?
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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 →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 NEA supports early childhood education programs in the public schools for “children from birth through age eight.” NEA members must be living on another planet if they think the American people are willing to put their babies in public schools starting at birth.
Continue reading →The good news is, we were saved from the threat of a mega-union running the public schools when delegates to the National Education Association (NEA) convention this summer repudiated their own leadership by voting down a merger with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
Continue reading →President Clinton is pressing ahead with his plan to nationalize public school curriculum through national reading tests for 4th graders and national math tests for 8th graders. Congressional opposition to national tests has been led by Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO) and Congressman Bill Goodling (R-PA), chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee.
Continue reading →If the education establishment wants to know why public schools don’t get much respect from our citizenry, they need look no further than an Op-Ed editorial in last week’s New York Times. This prestigious newspaper donated an expensive half page to complaints about the alleged problem of “censorship” in public schools.
Continue reading →Americans are at last being told the tragic fact that the public schools are failing to teach children how to read.
Continue reading →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.
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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 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.
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