Marina Medvin, Last week we discussed the dangers of the new elementary school “Racial Literacy Curriculum” that is being instituted in Grades K-8 in various schools spanning eight states. This week, we will examine the activism requirements of this curriculum. Beginning in Grade 3, the Pollyanna “Racial Literacy Curriculum” asks students to become activists in
WHAT DOES CONSERVATIVE EDUCATION IMPLEMENTATION MEAN?
Helping Guide the Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act #1. Local Control: Reaffirm that educating students is predominately the responsibility of states and localities, especially in the areas of funding, personnel, and reviving poorly performing schools. The federal government has been too active in developing education policy. Local and state leaders have a responsibility
We Are Paying for Charter School Invasion
Peyton Wolcott, Twenty years ago, about the same time our Turkish friends suddenly came to the U.S. en masse for Public Schoolse school and then decided that even though Turkish schools were only in the 30s to 70s in world rankings, and ours in the top 20, they would help us anyway — the federal
12 weighty reasons to get a good education
In today’s world, the problem of providing people with food, medical care, and housing is incredibly acute. On the other hand, sociologists are sure that i
There’s An Educational Crisis in the US. Does Anybody Care?
Sheriff David Clarke, Ret. The downward spiral of learning in American K-12 public schools continues. Does anybody care? Where’s the outrage, headlines, or breaking news? Congress and Big Media are too preoccupied with the impeachment scam in Washington D.C., to notice a real crisis in America. Our fourth and eighth-grade kids can’t read, and they
Texas School District Implements Pornographic Sex Education Policy
Todd Starnes, The sex and gender revolutionaries have officially taken over the Austin Independent School District without firing a single shot. In spite of overwhelming opposition from parents and pastors, the district’s trustees voted early Tuesday morning to implement a pornographic sex education policy that includes instruction on anal sex and how to place a
Closing Schools to Indoctrinate Educators in ‘White Privilege’
Sara Dogan, “Racial justice work is the work of all of us.” By longstanding tradition, on the third weekend in October, Minnesota schoolchildren are granted a four-day holiday so that their teachers can attend an indoctrination bootcamp—otherwise known as the “Minnesota Educator Academy” or “MEA”—sponsored by Education Minnesota, the state’s teachers union. Billed by the
Senator Warren’s “Pretty Awful” Education Plan
Chester E. Finn, Jr., Senator Elizabeth Warren is famous for hurling at least one major plan against every policy issue and societal problem you ever heard of—or hadn’t. It’s true that a lot of them make my head ache, some of them turn my stomach, and practically none seem likely to get enacted during her
Academia and the Spirit of Fear
Jack Kerwick, Suffering from want of courage. As this new academic year kicks off, just the most casual perusal of any of the most recent editions of any of the campus watchdog publications readily confirms that which, sadly, needs no confirmation: Academia, perhaps second only to Hollywood, remains the largest bastion of mental conformity in
Big bucks not for books, but for ‘gender-neutral changing facility’
Michael F. Haverluck, A school district in Pennsylvania is choosing to pour a large chunk of money not into educational resources or teachers’ salaries, but into a new facility that will comply with the demands of the trans community. At taxpayers’ expense, Eastern Lancaster County School District is spending $2.4 million to demolish an existing
Free The Students
John C. Goodman, The May 3 assault on a Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, prompted much discussion about the assailants’ connections to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh. Did ISIS run them as agents? Are they part of a new network of terror in the West? There is no domestic
FBI Visiting High Schools Warning of ISIS Recruitment Threat
Leah Barkoukis, New York City police Commissioner Bill Bratton wants 400 police officers focused on fighting the terrorism threat from ISIS, and now, in Bergen County, New Jersey (right outside of New York), the FBI is going to high schools warning students about the threat posed by the Islamic State’s online recruitment strategy. The FBI has targeted