Last week, Charles Murray, author of the controversial 1994 book, The Bell Curve, opined on the pages of the Wall Street Journal on the topic of IQ and education.
College Prep
Toward A Public School Meritocracy?
Though fraught with tension, a performance-based compensation system makes good sense and creates all kinds of incentives to achieve. Such logic is lost on the education establishment, however.
Good News for New Jersey school
The Carteret School District is now allowing a Good News
Club to meet at the Minue Elementary School.
Subtraction California Style
California employs people to expose waste and fraud but, unfortunately, agencies such as the California Department of Education (CDE) sometimes prefer to fire and demote these workers rather than heed their warnings.
NCLB Birthday Bashed
Five can be a difficult birthday. Just ask the architects of President Bush’s landmark federal law, No Child Left Behind, which turned five on January 8th.
Sunset for NCLB?
Bureaucratic red-tape has prevented many students from even receiving any possible benefits from NCLB.
Good News for Connecticut Schools
The Wolcott School District has now reversed its discriminatory
practice of denying equal access to Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF)
Good News Clubs in its elementary schools.
NYC Public School Pedophiles
The rate of substantiated sexual abuse of minors
committed by New York City public school workers is approximately
three times the rate found among Catholic priests nationwide.
Public Education Gifts
If you are a student in the Montgomery County school system the chances are you are the recipient of a talented and gifted (TAG) label that places you in the crème de la crème of the student population.
Late Christmas in Bakersfield
Those declaring war on Christmas in public schools just lost another battle