Category: Education
Education Reporter — September 1989
“First Aid Kit” in Florida Schools
School bells are ringing again for the opening of school, but parents and students in Okaloosa County, Florida are in an uproar over a new course in the…
Privacy Rights for Students
One of the largest school districts in the nation has just adopted a “Rights of Privacy Policy” which should be a model for all 15,500 school districts across…
Education Reporter — August 1989
Privacy-Invading Survey Stirs Up Storm in Chapel Hill
Here we go again with another impertinent, obnoxious, privacy-invading questionnaire, devised by so-called education “experts” in a state university and administered to a captive audience in the public…
How Illiteracy is Concealed
Secretary Lauro Cavazos’s figures are staggering: “13 percent of our citizens are illiterate, 27 million are functional illiterates, and another 40 to 60 million could be called marginally…
Education Reporter — July 1989
Is Physicians’ Advice Good for Your Health?
The old saying, confession is good for the soul, applies to an article in a recent American Medical News entitled “When More Doctors Smoked Camels.” It is illustrated…