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When local officials accept federal funds for the higher purpose of more qualitative national standards in education, about all they get is the “national” part, a trend now evident as states are urged by the federal government to adopt national curriculum standards known as “Common Core.”

Unfortunately, our collective history is unfamiliar to many American high schoolers. Responses to Common Core’s questionnaire, put to 1,200 17-year-olds, paint a startling portrait of teenage historical and literary ignorance.

As the liberal media tried to move on from Critical Race Theory, the state of Florida announced that its Department of Education rejected 54 mathematics textbooks over political and partisan indoctrination concerns. The rejections amounted to 41% of submitted textbooks from publishers aiming to place these textbooks in Florida’s public schools, according to local media […]

A middle school teacher, understandably unnerved by student’s alternate admiration for, and previous unfamiliarity with the U. S. Constitution, posted an Education Post to vent.

Mission accomplished?

Christianity teaches us that we are all equal in the eyes of God. Apparently, college professors didn’t get the memo.

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.

From School Reform News: Results of 2016 state testing data indicate 44 percent of New York 3rd graders were proficient in math, yet only 24 percent of 8th graders reached proficiency. The contrast is especially stark in Central New York, where “only 15 percent of eighth graders scored proficient in math,” Syracuse.com reported in October, […]

From the Home School Legal Defense Association: Some commentators have expressed concerns about a few of the organizations she is associated with. She is currently a member of the board of Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP), which supports the Common Core in Michigan. She is also on the board of Jeb Bush’s organization, Foundation for […]

President-elect Donald Trump has selected billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos, a relatively unknown figure on the national scene, to head the U.S. Department of Education. Calling her a “brilliant and passionate education advocate,” Trump said in a press release that “under her leadership we will reform the U.S. education system and break the bureaucracy that is […]

A recent report alleged that the College Board, the architects of the college entrance exams known today as the SAT, is becoming a profit-driven (yet taxpayer-funded) machine, instead of a business focused on the greater good. The National Center for Policy Analysis’s latest report, “The Big Business Profitability of the Nonprofit College Board,” highlights how […]

It is sign of the times that when people are told that Harvard was founded by a Puritan minister and dedicated to Christ and His Church, most react by wondering if this can actually be true. The reaction is evidence that Cultural Marxism has almost succeeded in eradicating the facts about the Christian roots of American education.