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Monroe, MI – A student at Monroe High School won first place in a school talent show last night by singing a Christian song that school officials had banned the day before the program. School officials reversed their position after Liberty Counsel became involved and allowed sixteen-year-old sophomore James Whipper to perform the Christian rap song, “He’s Calling.”

Claims that professors use their classroom positions to indoctrinate rather than educate their students crop up frequently in today’s polarized political climate. A geography course at Chapel Hill appears to be a perfect example.

The Khalil Gibran International Academy, a secondary public school with an Arabic-based curriculum, will open its doors this fall despite an outcry from local taxpayers.

In stark contrast to political science and economics lecturers in classrooms around the country, U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao spoke at the Heritage Foundation on June 26th, delivering a message of uncommon good cheer concerning the status and direction of “America’s Dynamic Workforce.”

A new academic study of the National Basketball Association which is in the middle of its playoff series concludes that there is a racial bias when it comes to fouls called by referees.

Yet another widely held perception in academia is the idea that somehow universities contribute to economic growth although the exact cause and effect is hard to pin down.

International Baccalaureate schools, and there are hundreds in the United States, can write their own curriculum so long as the beliefs and values of the curriculum agree with the beliefs and values of the UN.

Duke University’s undergraduate curriculum — like many others – went through a period of erosion beginning in the late 1960s but might be making a comeback.

If you thought the “Me” generation was self-indulgent, their offspring are even more so.

The not so shocking news…. not one U.S. state currently has anything resembling a free education marketplace.

Despite the touchy-feely pronouncements of their proponents, America’s Public Schools have become battlegrounds over divisive issues that divide an already divided nation even further.

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.