During the flower-power years, the whole idea was to make tedious chores like math “fun.” Now, we’re paying the price.
College Prep
San Diego Secularism
Despite 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.
LAW AND ORDER?
Desre’e Watson, a kindergartener in Avon Park Florida, was recently arrested at her school and charged with a felony and two misdemeanors.
Class Size Wars
While 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.
A Liberal Gets Mugged
Contrary to the old joke, a mugging does not automatically transform a liberal into a conservative.
Education Reform & Abstinence
While public school students may start next year with more educational options, they may also be pushed to grow up a little too fast
Sooner State Education Swamp
The latest data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows that public schools in Oklahoma aren’t making any gains.
Carbon Footprints
While 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.
End of Abstinence Education?
After years of fighting funding for abstinence education, liberal groups are heralding a new research study on several abstinence programs.
Harmonious Education
On 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.