Parents and taxpayers are winning nearly half their local curriculum battles to restore responsibility to our nation's public schools. That’s the good news from the annual survey of parent-school confrontations published recently by People for the … [Read more...] about Spooks and Witches in the Classroom
The Teaching of Values in the Public Schools — October 1989
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 middle schools. Called “Bridges,” it is given for the first 20 minutes every morning, using New … [Read more...] about “First Aid Kit” in Florida Schools
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 the country. It was unanimously passed by the Montgomery County Board of Education, which … [Read more...] about Privacy Rights for Students
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 school classroom by personnel who apparently … [Read more...] about Privacy-Invading Survey Stirs Up Storm in Chapel Hill
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 illiterate.” Instead of responding with a plan to start using … [Read more...] about How Illiteracy is Concealed
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 with color reproductions of magazine ads from the 1930s and ‘40s which would be … [Read more...] about Is Physicians’ Advice Good for Your Health?
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