During the flower-power years, the whole idea was to make tedious chores like math “fun.” Now, we’re paying the price.
Read the articleDespite the fact that Brad Johnson, a respected 30-year veteran teacher in San Diego’s Poway Unified School District, had displayed several education banners in his classroom referencing “God” for nearly 25 years, school officials nonetheless ordered him to take them down.
Read the articleDesre’e Watson, a kindergartener in Avon Park Florida, was recently arrested at her school and charged with a felony and two misdemeanors.
Read the articleWhile shrinking class size can be a good thing (after all, what parent wants their child in larger classes with fewer teachers?), research suggests it’s no quick fix for struggling schools.
Read the articleContrary to the old joke, a mugging does not automatically transform a liberal into a conservative.
Read the articleWhile public school students may start next year with more educational options, they may also be pushed to grow up a little too fast
Read the articleThe latest data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows that public schools in Oklahoma aren’t making any gains.
Read the articleWhile global warming alarmists, including some initial backers of a certain former U. S. Vice President’s Oscar-winning documentary, are jumping off the climate change express, high schools are increasingly hopping aboard this environmental bandwagon.
Read the articleAfter years of fighting funding for abstinence education, liberal groups are heralding a new research study on several abstinence programs.
Read the articleOn Friday the NSBA’s Council of Urban Boards of Education kicked off its meeting in San Francisco with an address by 1960’s civil rights activist and emeritus professor at UC-Berkeley’s Department of Ethnic Studies Carlos Munoz Jr. on racial harmony.
Read the articleAs battles rage across the country in school systems over sexual orientation policies, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) meeting put in their two cents worth with a late afternoon session on Saturday titled “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual , and Transgender Issues in Schools: The Changing Landscape in Legal and Practical Terms-Are You Ready?”
Read the articleGideon Bible Distribution in Public Schools
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