Category: Education
“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…
Insolvable Problems of Federal Daycare — July 1989
Who is Imposing Values on Whom?
For years the liberals have been busy creating a boogeyman out of so-called “right-wing extremists” and “fundamentalists” who allegedly are trying to “impose their values” on public schoolchildren.…