Citizens’ Revolt Against Sex Ed Textbooks
The publishers of public school textbooks for sex education, a course that is usually called “family living” or “health” in order to minimize controversy, were taught a costly…
Category: Education
Education Reporter — January 1989
Carnegie’s Plan for Controlling U.S. Education
Americans spend about $300 billion per year on education, a truly impressive sum. If any group could control that spending Goliath, it would have incredible power because it…
Schools Starting to Recognize Pupils’ Privacy Rights
Three swallows do not a summer make, but straws in the wind at the local level of public education indicate that some schools are starting to show respect…
Education Reporter — December 1988
The Growing Use and Misuse of Ritalin
Recent journals of the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association have brought out into the open forum of public discussion a practice that has hitherto evaded…
Witches Ride in the Classroom
For most of us, Halloween is a mildly amusing night that means jack-o-lanterns, trick-or-treaters, and children garbed in ridiculous costumes. Fortunately, it comes only once a year, as…
Education Reporter — November 1988
Education Reporter — October 1988
Sex Education in California
Since 24 states have mandated AIDS education in the public schools, and since AIDS education starts as early as kindergarten in nine states, in behooves parents to find…