The annual resolutions passed by the National Education Association (NEA) have just been published and they are very revealing.  They were approved in July in Washington, D.C. by the nearly 9,000 delegates who attended the annual convention of … [Read more...] about Look Who’s Teaching Our Children

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

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

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

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