NEA Convention Delegates Gather to Gloat
While most Americans were enjoying nonpolitical fireworks and cookouts over the Fourth of July weekend, 8,923 delegates and 5,469 registered non-delegates to the annual National Education Association (NEA)…
Category: Education
Beware of Gifted and Talented Invitations
Any parent will puff up with pride when the school says that his child is “gifted and talented” and should be promoted into a special class with other…
Education Reporter — July 1997
Education Reporter — June 1997
What’s Going on in the Schoolhouse? — June 1997
What’s Going on in the Schoolhouse? President Clinton has been bragging that the current budget deal, agreed to by the Republican Congress headed by Newt Gingrich and…
The Ultimate Reading List – Classics That Endure
Phyllis Schlafly wrote of her successful phonics training system: “My book First Reader was published in 1994 and has been used to teach tens of thousands o f…
How K-III Communications Buys a Captive Audience
When people watch television, they certainly are at liberty to channel-surf during the commercials or to use that time to get refreshments or go to the bathroom. How…
Why the Push for Federal Control of the Classroom?
The same Hillary Rodham Clinton/Marc Tucker/Ira Magaziner/Robert Reich legislation to merge the functions of the Departments of Education and Labor, which Congress declined to pass last year, is…
Education Reporter — May 1997
The Fakery Of “America Reads”
Colin Powell says that America has 15 million at-risk youths, and he has launched a massive national campaign of volunteerism to help them. We sincerely hope that some…