Despite what Americans have been hearing about the nation’s poor civics literacy, renowned education reformer Diane Ravitch suggests that, on historical subjects at least, civics education may have made “some headway.”
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Migration: Who Cares?
Coming to the conclusion that migration should not be thought of as a distinctly national issue, two authors presented data on their research of metropolitan cities experiencing and influx of foreign-born immigrants.
Modified Media Mea Culpa
Studies on the astounding degree of neglect for essential reportorial practices remains valid. I could see this trend with a vengeance as an intern in the Senate press gallery a quarter century ago.
Promiscuity Leads the Pact
Rumors of a high school pregnancy pact are stealing headlines in America’s largest newspapers and prompting more parents to question what public education is teaching their children about sex.
On Evil
Professor Philip Zimbardo, known for his infamous Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971, discusses what circumstances make people do bad things.
Planned Parenthood Mysteries & Scandals
Black pro-lifers, many of them ministers, are taking on the abortion provider, ubiquitous on many college campuses, although the dissenters’ efforts receive little media attention.
Constitutional Literacy at Risk
Americans’ awareness of their freedoms and where they came from are at a low point and the institutions that once passed on that knowledge are largely to blame.
An Embarassment of Riches
Universities and colleges which routinely direct students to Planned Parenthood clinics help to swell the already swollen coffers of the group but then so does the Bush Administration.
Bolsheviks For Barack
Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid shows why some academics are jumping on the Obama bandwagon.
Armed & Famished
“STUDENT ARRESTED FOR CUTTING FOOD WITH KNIFE”
was the headline of a recent story on Orlando Florida’s News Channel 6.