‘Education Reporter’ Archives
Illinois Homeschoolers Thwart State Registration?
School Days, Education Reporter Chicago public schools are generally not known for their academic excellence. That well-known fact left many Illinois homeschooling parents wondering why state senator Edward Maloney (D-Chicago) recently decided to focus his efforts on "more accountability" for children not attending Illinois' often failing and [...]
Liberty Starts in School
School Days, Education News.org Bill Costello - American public schools are not producing students who can think. How can we expect to maintain our liberty when our citizens lack the ability to reach independent conclusions on issues of the day? Students learn to think by hearing both sides of an issue, weighing the evidence, applying [...]
College Profs Irked by New Texas ‘Transparency’ Law
Liberty Alerts, Education Reporter When University of Texas at Austin junior Taurie Randermann complained to her boss that her course titled "Communication and Religion" was actually about fringe cults like Wiccans and Heaven's Gate, she kicked off a major change in how much information Texas colleges and universities provide students about [...]
50 Successful Harvard Application Essays
Liberty Alerts, Education Reporter Book Review: 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays: What Worked For Them Can Help You Get Into the College of Your Choice, Third Edition, Staff of the Harvard Crimson, St. Martin's Griffin, 2010, 208 pages, $14.99. The college application essay is the most nerve-wracking writing assignment most 17-year-olds [...]
NEA Plans Public Image Makeover
Liberty Alerts, Education Reporter Public support for teachers unions is dropping as their self-serving antics become more widely known. But the 9,000 teachers and education staffers who gathered in New Orleans for the annual NEA convention have plans for a public image makeover. Charter schools are a particular target. Delegates passed New [...]
Who is the Biggest Campaign Spender of All?
Liberty Alerts, Education Reporter Political ads constantly warn Americans to beware of the legislative clout big business can buy. But the biggest political campaign spender isn't ExxonMobil, Wal-Mart or Microsoft, or even an industry association like the American Bankers Association. It's not even an entire labor federation, like the [...]
Grading on NY State Math Exams Doesn’t Add Up
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum, Education Reporter Student scores on the New York state math test are up in every grade tested this year, with some grades showing astonishing double-digit gains. Some experts and critics charged the tests were easier than prior years, despite education officials' promises to "strengthen" and "increase the rigor" of [...]
Educators Tamper With Tests
Liberty Alerts, Education Reporter Standardized test scores are up in several states, but so are suspicions of teacher and administrator test tampering. At least six states have announced investigations into cheating this year, and more may be on the way. Three teachers, the principal and assistant principal all resigned from Normandy [...]
Study Finds Freshman Summer Reading Lightweight and Leftist
Eagle Forum, Education Reporter A growing number of American universities, including 79 of U.S. News & World Report's top 100 list, ask incoming freshman to read one book over the summer. The purpose, as expressed by Florida Southern College, is to promote "a shared intellectual experience" and "campus-wide dialogue." Kalamazoo College [...]
Obama’s Title IX Ruling a ‘Step Backwards’ for Athletic Programs
Education Reporter, Eagle Forum With its reversal of a Bush-era Title IX regulation that allowed colleges to survey student interest in athletics and then spend accordingly, the Obama administration strongly signaled that gender quotas are the only certain measure of compliance. In April, the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.) The [...]
