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?
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. The current controversy about sex education makes … [Read more...] about Who is Imposing Values on Whom?
Education Reporter — June 1989
Education Reporter — May 1989
The Uncertain World of Psychiatric Treatment
Psychiatry, the practice of treating mental disease or disorders, is the only medical specialty in which there are no generally accepted professional guidelines. Pick you practitioner and he picks your treatment. The custom is, caveat emptor: let the … [Read more...] about The Uncertain World of Psychiatric Treatment
Four Bad Ideas About Public Schools — May 1989
