Parents’ Rights
When public schools become intolerable because of crime, drugs, immorality, teenage pregnancies, VD, failure to teach moral values, lack of discipline, or failure to teach basic skills such…
Category: Education
Student Loan Program
The Higher Education Act of 1965 established the guaranteed student loan program in order to enable financially needy students to attend college or vocational school. Under this program,…
Religion in Politics
In 1960 the winning presidential candidate, John F. Kennedy, went to great pains to put distance between himself and his church and to reassure every questioner that his…
SCHOOL BOY GANGS
The spiraling increase of violent crime among teenagers is not only a major reason why urban living has become progressively more terrifying. It is likewise a principal reason…
The Teaching of Writing
In our current era of consumerism, it is a wonder that Ralph Nadar or some public interest law firm hasn’t investigated the shoddiest consumer product or service on…
Grime and Punishment — March 1976
Agatha Christie
It is fortunate that equal employment quotas have never been enforced on the writing business, because world opinion has cheerfully enjoyed a persistent discrimination by book publishers in…
The Cure for the Problem of the Schools — February 1976
Short Work Weeks
When federal, state or local governments are faced with the awful necessity of cutting down expenditures, their customary reaction is to cut off essential services first, so as…
Evanston School Idea
The American consumer has benefited greatly from our competitive economic system which constantly induces business rivals to produce better products at cheaper prices. The competition among calculator manufacturers…