Look Who’s Cheating on Reading Tests
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…
Category: Phyllis Schlafly Report Column
Grading President Bush
A Newsweek columnist has just presumed to give a school grade to the President, deciding that George Bush deserves only the mediocre grade of “C” on his economic…
Facing the Future of Families
Anyone who reads the print media closely can find a few items now and then that run contrary to the prevailing liberal and feminist ideologies. For example, despite…
Are These Abortion Cures Really “Stringent”?
“Stringent curbs on abortion pass in Pennsylvania” screamed the front-page headline in the New York Times. Was that headline just factual reporting of all the news that’s fit…
R-Rated Videos in the Classroom
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…
Catastrophic Liberalism
Liberalism lately has been taking its lumps. But hope springs eternal for the liberals who lust for more of our money to spend and more control over our…
Look Who’s Teaching Our Children
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…
Bush’s Challenge on SDI
“The reports of my death,” said Mark Twain, “are greatly exaggerated.” We need President Bush to proclaim a similar Mark Twainism about the so-called “death” of SDI, which…
Spooks and Witches in the Classroom
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…
How the Left Uses “McCarthyism”
The term McCarthyism is not just an ordinary word weapon in the language of contemporary political combat. It has a very specific function: it is a scarlet “M”…