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 find out the answer to that question. The reason it is necessary to ask such a … [Read more...] about How Schools Alienate Children From Parents

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 nomination in San Francisco, she received massive, laudatory, uncritical coverage. … [Read more...] about Ferraro and the News Media

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 tool to motivate volunteers and to elect candidates to office. The Democratic … [Read more...] about Platform Comparisons

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 Veep selection; that is, she was chosen to satisfy an artificial gender quota … [Read more...] about An Affirmative Action Veep

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 burglarized. Congress has been working for years on criminal justice reform, and now the Reagan … [Read more...] about Reagan Crime Control Act

"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 task or subject before proceeding to another. However, the typed transcripts from the … [Read more...] about The Sad State of Spelling

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 unprecedented phenomenon. They ought to look directly at the classroom … [Read more...] about Classroom Curricula Promote Suicide and Murder

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 little sense as "Is America ready for a candidate from Minnesota?" The issue is not "a … [Read more...] about A Women on the National

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 the bottom of the class, many parents have been taking a look … [Read more...] about Dumbing of Textbooks–Or Numbing of Standards?