College Prep

California legislators may get an epidemic of boys wetting their pants if the lawmakers get their way and can introduce gender-neutral bathrooms in the Golden State’s public schools.

A recent article by Elan Journo of the
Ayn Rand
Institute described how
“transformational
education” is now deeply entrenched in America’s curriculum and
teaching practices.

The 2007 NEA Convention, held June 30 through July 5 in Philadelphia, PA, highlighted many social and political considerations ranging from gay rights to global warming to amnesty, but opposed school choice or tax credits for home-schooling parents.

Apparently, taking a vacation four times longer than that which most taxpayers enjoy is a teachers’ professional right.

Traditional North Carolina public schools will open their doors next week under mounting pressure to perform.

The new ACT 2007 College Readiness Report, released August 15, congratulates American educators once again for improving student scores “on all four subject-area tests: English, mathematics, reading and science” but a closer examination of the data reveals that of the approximately 1.3 million students took the curriculum-based, national ACT college placement exam this year, average scores have been increasing incrementally within each subject.

Federal grants accepted by the District yearly since 1980, to be used for the education of children of migrant farmers and fishermen, have been swallowed up by the bureaucracy.

Thanks to the actions of U.S. government officials, we will soon get a chance to discover whether ignorance really is bliss.

While the “separation of Church and State” crowd has been noticeably mum on the opening of charter schools such as the Kahil Gibran Academy in Brooklyn, the efforts of other religions can still provoke their ire.

If a Catholic priest, or, for that matter, any cleric, abuses his position in pursuit of carnal knowledge, expect the story to get front-page treatment. When a public school employee tries to improve his love life by hitting on students, no matter how young, you can find the story covered in…three paragraphs at the bottom of page 19.

On August 6, 2007, Associated Press writer Lindsey Tanner released an article, “Marketing Tricks Tot’s Taste Buds,” detailing how Dr. Tom Robinson’s August 2007 new study concluded that marketing campaigns can alter a child’s perception of taste and convince them that the name brand is more desirable.

Public schools may look like they were inspired by him but at least one teacher cannot recognize the visage of Karl Marx.