Those of us old enough to remember when students cobbled together excuses for being absent from class never dreamed that one day teachers would too.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
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Chicago’s Cradle-to-Grade Graduation Requirement
Every now and then, public officials announce an ostensibly “get tough” education reform, ostensibly to make schools work better. Conversely, it usually involves more governmental control and less individual freedom.
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School District Apologizes for Conservative Speaker
How do you get public school administrators to apologize to parents who send their children there? Invite a conservative speaker and watch them recoil from the social media firestorm that follows her appearance.
Former Education Secretaries DREAM On
A quintet of former U. S. Secretaries of Education are weighing in on behalf of the so-called DREAM Act designed to benefit the children of illegal aliens.
School District Debates putting Founders in Memory Hole
It was only a matter of time.
The Big Remedial Apple
New Yorkers like to think they are more sophisticated than us common folk. Perhaps they define sophistication as a big expensive ineffective school system.
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Remembering the U. S. Constitution: The Law of the Land
Republican presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George H. W. Bush have referred to U. S. Supreme Court decisions as “the law of the land.” Actually, that distinction belongs to the document we celebrate today—the U. S. Constitution.
The Expense of Free College
Free College is becoming such an expensive proposal that even Democrats are starting to notice.
Berkeley Profs Take Stand—Against Free Speech
The university that has proudly proclaimed itself to be the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement may also become its graveyard.
Immigration for profit
For profit colleges, long the bete noire of the Left, may have found a way to get in the good graces of uberprogressives, research from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) indicates.