Posts Tagged ‘Education Reporter’
What Students Learn and Don’t Learn
By Phyllis Schlafly If you are attending college to get teacher certification, you will probably be required to attend classes on "multicultural education." This is supposed to bring diversity to the classroom and prepare teachers to teach pupils of various ethnic or national backgrounds. The textbooks in these courses typically include [...]
10 Truths About Socialism
School Days, Education Reporter 10 Truths About Socialism, Robert Knight et al., Coral Ridge Ministries 2010, 157 pages, $15.00. Socialism was supposed to be in its death throes when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved on Christmas Day in 1991. But, like Freddie Krueger, it refuses to die. Perhaps it is the infiltration of [...]
Arne Duncan’s First Report Card
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum, Education Reporter With an unprecedented $100 billion in federal education funding to dole out, and a strong ally in President Obama, it would have been difficult for Arne Duncan not to make a significant impact during his first year as Secretary of Education. His Race to the Top (RTT) grant competition spurred a [...]
Will the Real Bullies Please Rise?
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum, Education Reporter A California judge has denied that parents are entitled to keep their kids out of pro-gay school lessons. Numerous Alameda school district parents claimed their right to have their children excused from such curriculum under a California "opt out" provision. Education Code section 51240 allows [...]
University of Minnesota Plans to Re-Educate Teachers
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum, Education Reporter A civil liberties organization and other critics are denouncing the recommendations of the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the University of Minnesota flagship Twin Cities campus for its proposal that race, class and gender form the "overarching framework" of all teacher education [...]
