The state of Michigan last month gave a new-style reading test to all public school pupils in the 4th, 7th and 10th grades. A careful look at the Michigan test (called MEAP: Michigan Educational Assessment Program) shows that it is a cheat on the … [Read more...] about Look Who’s Cheating on Reading Tests

If you wonder why public schoolchildren are not learning essential facts (like where the United States is on a map of the world), or why they have not read the major classics written in the English language, perhaps you should look into whether they … [Read more...] about R-Rated Videos in the Classroom

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