Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, please call your boss and urge him to read your May 9 speech to the National Summit on America's Silent Epidemic in Washington, DC. Your eloquence in describing the silent epidemic was exceeded only by … [Read more...] about Advice For Education Secretary Spellings
Education Reporter — June 2007
What Cho Learned In The English Department
What was the motive behind 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui's killing of 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech? Why was he consumed with hate, resentment and bitterness? Cho was an English Department major and senior. As a frequent lecturer on … [Read more...] about What Cho Learned In The English Department
Education Reporter — May 2007
What Colleges Don’t Teach
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says that the Federal Government needs some accountability for the billions of dollars the taxpayers pour into university education. That's right, we do; but her plan, to set up a national database to track … [Read more...] about What Colleges Don’t Teach
Education Reporter — April 2007
What Colleges Teach — and Don’t Teach — April 2007
What Colleges Teach — and Don't Teach Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says that the Federal Government needs some accountability for the billions of dollars the taxpayers pour into university education. That's right, … [Read more...] about What Colleges Teach — and Don’t Teach — April 2007
Congress’s Opportunity To Restore Parental Rights
The reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Education Act offers Congress a splendid opportunity to enforce parents' rights that have been outrageously trampled on by the public schools. When the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that … [Read more...] about Congress’s Opportunity To Restore Parental Rights
Education Reporter — March 2007
ERA Enforced by the United Nations? — March 2007
ERA Enforced by the United Nations? Having failed in their effort to persuade Americans to put the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) into the U.S. Constitution, despite spending tens of millions of dollars and enjoying the … [Read more...] about ERA Enforced by the United Nations? — March 2007