How Schools Alienate Children From Parents
Are the schools in your area pro-parent or anti-parent? Anyone with a child attending school should take time to evaluate the school and its curriculum in order to…
Author: Phyllis Schlafly
Ferraro and the News Media
The credibility of the media in covering Geraldine Ferraro is one of the most interesting issues in the 1984 presidential campaign. For a couple of weeks after her…
Platform Comparisons
Sometimes a party platform is mere rhetoric, swept under the rug and forgotten after the convention is over. Other times, the party platform can be a powerful political…
An Affirmative Action Veep
The principal problem with Walter Mondale’s choice of Geraldine Ferraro to be his running mate is that she had never run for President. She was an Affirmative Action…
Reagan Crime Control Act
In a typical half hour in the United States, one person is murdered, nine women are raped, 76 people are robbed, 284 are assaulted, and 380 homes are…
Child Abuse in the Classroom — September 1984
The Sad State of Spelling
“Mastery learning” is a term which has become dear to the hearts of educators in the last couple of years. With this system, pupils must thoroughly “master” one…
Classroom Curricula Promote Suicide and Murder
Suicide is the second highest cause of death among teenagers. Whenever there is a rash of suicides, schools and psychiatrists initiate studies to search for explanations of this…
A Women on the National
A major eastern university recently tried to schedule me for a debate on “Is America Ready for a Woman Vice President?” I declined because that question makes as…
Dumbing of Textbooks–Or Numbing of Standards?
Since Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell got front-page publicity with his slashing attack on textbook publishers, accusing them of “dumbing down” their books to accommodate pupils at…