Posts Tagged ‘education’
Mississippi College Reverses Punishment of Student for Swearing
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org JACKSON, Miss., July 28, 2010—Isaac Rosenbloom is again able to pursue advanced training as a paramedic at Hinds Community College (HCC) now that the school has reversed its punishment against him for swearing a single time outside of class. Rosenbloom, who supports his wife and two young children as an [...]
Diversity and Tolerance — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, A leading headline this week had to do with Julea Ward, a student expelled from Eastern Michigan University’s graduate student counseling program because she held to her Christian belief that homosexuality was not moral. I guess this falls into the lefts all encompassing “diversity and tolerance” unless that diversity and [...]
Victory for Academic Freedom: ‘Human Heredity’ Professor Receives $100,000 Settlement
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org SAN JOSÉ, Calif., July 26, 2010—Nearly three years after terminating her over her protected classroom speech, the San José/Evergreen Community College District (SJCCD) has agreed to pay adjunct professor June Sheldon $100,000 in lost earnings in exchange for dismissal of her First Amendment lawsuit. In [...]
Washington State gets message on bias reporting protocols; will other universities?
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org The advent of bias reporting protocols on university campuses is viewed by FIRE as a pernicious threat to student speech, and with good reason. Universities that maintain and operate such policies typically encourage students and others on campus to report, often anonymously, occasions in which they experience [...]
Subsidizing More College Students Won’t Help the Economy
The Freeman, George Leef Governments in the United States subsidize college education heavily. State universities charge students very low tuition rates, and the federal government has a host of grant and loan programs designed to make college affordable to most families. (As politicians make those programs more generous, schools have spent [...]
China Taking U.S. High-Tech Research
By Phyllis Schlafly For years, many of Communist China's best and brightest engineers and students came to the United States to take high-tech jobs away from Americans. That's why, when I lecture on college campuses, a lot of guys tell me they are switching to accounting from engineering because there aren't many engineering jobs available to [...]
N.Y. Public Schools May Observe Muslim Holidays
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Muslim religious holidays will be officially observed by the largest public school district in the United States under a bill pending in the New York State Legislature. A similar proposal was overwhelmingly approved by the New York City Council last year but got nixed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. That [...]
Prosecutor Warns About Sex-Ed Law — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly A Wisconsin prosecutor recently sent a letter to five school districts warning that a new sex education law passed by the State Legislature could lead to criminal charges against teachers for contributing to the delinquency of minors. Wisconsin schools aren’t required to offer sex ed courses, but if they do, they must [...]
Texas’ New Social Studies Standards
By Phyllis Schlafly After months of heated discussion, the Texas State Board of Education gave final approval to new social studies and history guidelines. The liberal media accused the conservative majority of politicizing history, but the board chairman said the new guidelines merely bring balance into a curriculum that had been skewed to the [...]
Living Through History — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba We live our lives one day at a time and, at best, understand them only in hindsight. The chief advantage of old age is the ability to look back and, hopefully, to draw some lessons from the history through which we have lived. My chief regret is that so many among the generations coming up behind me have so little real [...]
Arizona Bill Targets Classes Promoting Hatred for Whites and The United States
Liberty Alerts, Education Reporter Shortly after making national headlines for a new law cracking down on illegal immigration, Arizona passed HB 2281, another bill that some critics are decrying as racist. But Tom Horne, superintendent of public instruction for Arizona and a primary proponent, insists the bill is intended to curb racism. The [...]
Training Teachers to Promote ‘Social Justice’
Liberty Alerts, Education Reporter, Mary Grabar Disparagement of knowledge was evident at the National Council for the Social Studies conference I attended last November in Atlanta. There, 3,200 teachers were continuing their studies in pedagogy, and gaining continuing and graduate credit to bump them into higher salaries. Most worked for [...]
Martinez Ruling: Ninth Circuit Affirmed, but with Remand — David French
Liberty Alerts, David French — Alliance Defense Fund, Senior Counsel Supreme Court renders a 5-4 decision against the Christian Legal Society. Justice Ginsburg is still reading from the bench, but here’s the Scotusblog summary: The Court rules that an “all comers” policy, at least as it exists at the Hastings College of Law, is [...]
Rescuing Our Kids and Country From Karl Marx — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell It bears repeating: If we hope to halt, reverse and permanently alter America's descent into the gutter of debauchery and that political tyranny that is forever its companion — "education is the key." (1) And if so, it must be, it can only be that that education is initiated, financed, and controlled by parents, not by [...]
Victory: University of Idaho Drops Charges of Harassment and Discrimination for ‘Offensive’ Speech
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org, Peter Bonilla After FIRE intervened, the University of Idaho (UI) abandoned disciplinary charges of "harass" and "discrimination" against student Alexander Rowson relating to political statements he made at two campus events. On or about March 30, during César Chávez Day at UI, there was a musical [...]
In Loco Parentis or Just Plain Loco — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There’s a story out of Provincetown , Massachusetts; a public school plans to hand out condoms to elementary school children regardless of parent's desires. My guess is the school board believes it has authority under “in loco parentis”. Don’t ask me why the phrase is prefaced with “in”; that’s just the way it is, [...]
Don’t Hang Labels On Kids — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly The American College of Pediatricians mailed a letter this spring to 14,800 U.S. public school superintendents urging them to avoid prematurely labeling children as “gay” or “transgender.” The letter announced a new website called FactsAboutYouth.com to provide factual information to educators, parents, and [...]
Training Teachers To Teach “Social Justice” — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly The monthly journal called Education Reporter recently published an informative expose by a teacher who attended a conference on training teachers how to teach students what is called "social justice." "Social justice" has become a code word for a specific type of teaching in U.S. public schools that is contrary to [...]
It’s Not About Kids; It’s About Money
By Phyllis Schlafly An enterprising reporter and television producer named Bob Bowdon has produced a documentary film that every parent ought to see. He asks the question: How has the richest and most innovative society on earth lost the ability to teach our children? He spent two years investigating public education in the United States, [...]
Minnesota Homeschoolers Lobby Legislators to Challenge Obamacare
Liberty Alerts, Education Reporter Each year, a group of Minnesota homeschool students gathers weekly at a church in Roseville, Minnesota to research, discuss, and draft mock legislative resolutions for four public policy issues. Since the students choose topics for the Student Senate class, the 14- to 18-year-olds always pick subjects that [...]
Florida Passes Law to Protect First Amendment Rights in Public Schools
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Tallahassee, FL – Responding to the gross violation of free speech brought about by the ACLU in the Santa Rosa County School District (District), the Florida legislature passed a law that requires school districts to obtain the consent of staff and students before entering into any agreement that infringes upon [...]
The Cartel: It’s Not About the Kids, It’s About the Money
Liberty Alerts, Education Reporter Are your local schools substandard despite ever-increasing funding? Have you ever wondered why? Give documentary filmmaker Bob Bowdon 90 minutes and he can connect the dots for you. The Cartel is a hard-hitting expos‚ that shows how the union stranglehold on public education is destroying the lives of [...]
To Adopt or Not? States Will Decide on Common Standards
Liberty Alerts, Education Reporter, Eagle Forum Strong Federal Push Behind "State-Led Initiative" The 48 states that signed on to the Common Core State Standards Initiative for English/language arts and mathematics last year will soon make decisions on whether to formally adopt those standards. (Alaska and Texas declined to participate.) [...]
Teacher of the Year Sounds Off
By Phyllis Schlafly John Taylor Gatto, who is a former New York State “Teacher of the Year,” has issued an urgent message for American parents in his blockbuster book called Weapons of Mass Instruction. Gatto says: “School is not a good place for your kids,” even if they get good grades. The author explains that, while we are [...]
Noah Webster: Why the Bible Belongs In the Schools — American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer He left Yale for four years to fight in the Revolutionary War. After graduation, he became a lawyer and taught school in New York. Dissatisfied with the children's spelling books, he wrote the famous Blue-Backed Speller, which sold over one hundred million copies. After twenty-six years of work, he published [...]
Get Your Kids a Real Headstart — Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly When it comes to getting small children ready for school, it's not enough to go shopping for clothes and school supplies. There is something else you can do that will be benefit your kids more than new clothes. Recently, I came across a book that puts new light on the task of getting small children ready for [...]
Let’s Stop Subsidizing Fornication — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer City officials in our nation's capital have meekly yielded to complaints from its randy high schoolers and agreed to hand out, at taxpayer expense, the s of the students' choice. Apparently the teens were insulted that the city was offering an inferior brand of protection - Durex - rather than the coveted Trojan [...]
Taxpayers Misled About Costs of Public Schools
by Phyllis Schlafly The amount Americans spend on education has risen dramatically and consistently over the past century, with a 25% increase in per-student costs between 1995 and 2005, even after adjusting for inflation. In fact, public education spending accounted for more than one-third of state budgets last year. Yet taxpayers are [...]
Would Jesus sign the Arizona immigration bill? In a heartbeat
By Bryan Fischer I was asked by a caller Thursday whether Jesus would, if he were governor, sign the Arizona immigration law. "In a heartbeat," I answered. Why, I asked rhetorically? "Because of his compassion." This compassion is for the citizens of Arizona who are subject to home invasions, out-of-control drug trafficking, human [...]
Parents Have an Awakening about Curriculum
By Phyllis Schlafly What could motivate hundreds of parents to attend a local school board meeting? Well, parents in the Alpine School District in Utah have been attending in large numbers to demand comprehensive changes in the curriculum. It all began when a 6th-grade history teacher told eleven-year-old Susan Schnell that the United [...]
