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
The Adoption Option: Twice Loved
Now that the Supreme Court has tossed the abortion issue back to the legislatures, it’s time to promote the adoption option. This will enable us to demonstrate that what is often called an “unwanted child” can be really twice loved. Texas Monthly, … [Read more...] about The Adoption Option: Twice Loved
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?
Let’s Stop Making Heroes out of Rapists
Twenty years ago, the feminists developed the theory that rape has nothing to do with sex, that it is instead an act of violence, plus evidence of male hatred and aggressiveness toward women. Maybe this strange motion is the reason why we haven’t … [Read more...] about Let’s Stop Making Heroes out of Rapists
What the Senate-Passed Daycare Bill Means
As Senate Democrats were emoting last week about how they plan to spend the taxpayers’ money to provide daycare, I had a vision of their next social program. It could sound like this. “We have a crisis in housing. American workers can’t find the … [Read more...] about What the Senate-Passed Daycare Bill Means
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
Will Congress Wipe Out Religious Daycare?
It is different to escape the conclusion that one major purpose of most of the daycare bills pending in Congress is to prevent all preschool children from being subject to any religious influence. Any federal legislation that would give grants for … [Read more...] about Will Congress Wipe Out Religious Daycare?
