Articles by Deborah Lambert

Features

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL RESEGREGATES

What would you think of a high school meeting to discuss recent test scores that began by teachers saying: “What’s up, white people?”

Features

As England Goes?

British schools are no longer taking responsibility to teach children right from wrong, since they reworded the national curriculum to rid it of moral absolutes.

Features

Speaking of “Fit to Print…”

The publisher of New York Times recently gave a commencement address to SUNY New Paltz grads and lauded the efforts of his generation not to “repeat the mistakes of our predecessors.”

Features

Column Correction

A Squeaky Chalk article titled “Coulter 1 – U. Conn. 0” dated December 16, 2005 mistakenly did not provide proper attribution of all the material quoted from Human Events. The corrected article appears below. We regret the error.

College Prep

Bard Blues

A veteran teacher explains why she thinks that Shakespeare is “the world’s ultimate rapper.”

Book Reviews

Blue Book Breakdown

If you’re wondering what American students are learning about history these days, it’s worth spending a few minutes reading some entries from Non Campus Mentis.

Book Reviews

Bernard Goldberg Rates Bottom 100

These America bashers, many of them now middle-aged, are part of the mainstream culture – “in the top ranks of the nation’s intelligentsia and cultural elite – professors at leading universities,” where they have the power, 24/7, to mold our country’s most precious assets – the next generation of leaders.

News

Squeaky Chalk

Commas, periods and question marks are the latest targets of the PC police, the New York City junior high school National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) has chosen sides in the cultural debate over homosexuality in the schools, Kentucky’s educational leaders are more concerned with overweight students than academic performance

Perspectives

Campus PC Rebellion

Parents aren’t the only ones bristling over campus political correctness battles, and the prospect of paying over $200,000 per child for four years of college. Contributions from alumni have declined steadily over the past several years and now hover around 13 percent.