Opinion, Public Education
Kansas Department of Education takes ‘another lap on the grade inflation tour’(The Sentinel) – The Kansas Department of Education conducted a fifty-city “Kansans Can Success Tour” in 2021 that felt like high school pep rallies, with the announcement of… Read More
Opinion, Public Education
New law requires New Jersey schools to teach critical thinking, but could it be politicized?A recently signed New Jersey law will ensure public schools teach critical thinking and other research skills, but some worry it could be politicized in the classroom.New Jersey… Read More
Culture, Opinion
Woke ‘implicit bias’ training for educators is a priority for national teachers’ unionThe nation’s largest teachers’ union wants educators to know they are inevitably biased, even racially biased, despite their best intentions.“Understandably, most people aren’t too eager to be that… Read More
Opinion
Stanford University claims ‘freshman’ and ‘American’ are offensive termsDespite stiff competition, Stanford University recently became a major contender in the race to become the most politically correct academic institution ever.Stanford released the Elimination of Harmful… Read More
Culture, Opinion
CDC announces new disease: conservatismThe Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is promoting its latest resource: an LGBT inclusivity self-assessment for educators. But what disease does it target?Released through CDC’s… Read More
Opinion
Teaching proper grammar and math is racist, say these teachersA California teacher refuses to teach proper grammar because she claims it upholds white supremacy.“Public education is an institution that upholds lots of problematic systems in our society… Read More
Media, Opinion, Uncategorized
Press freedom declines: ‘Most U.S. journalists will never appreciate freedom of the press until they lose it’“The important thing is there are plenty of newspapers, with plenty of different people controlling them, so there are a variety of viewpoints, so there is a… Read More
Culture, Opinion
Children as young as 6 attend erotic ‘Christmas’ drag queen show in Kansas City, guarded by police and AntifaImagine if exotic dancers left their strip clubs to stage a vulgar, sexually suggestive public performance at a local theater – for “all ages,” no less. Now imagine some… Read More
Culture, Opinion
Fathers are important, and other lessons I learned when my parents divorcedHaving a father in the home may be the single-most determining factor in the successful development of a child. I know the importance of having a father in the… Read More
Culture, Opinion
American ‘Girl’ sacrifices our daughters on the altar of gender ideologyFirst Disney, now American Girl dolls.Thanks, gender ideology, for ruining my childhood.American Girl’s new book “Body Image” is being rightly denounced for advocating puberty… Read More
Opinion, Public Education
Fifth-grade public school teacher identifying as ‘trans demi-boy non-binary’ offers a shorthand lesson in all that ails educationA self-identified “trans demi-boy non-binary” elementary teacher posted a video to social media on teaching children about imaginary “gender identities” and pronouns.Skye Tooley is employed at the… Read More
Christian Schools, Opinion
5 ways Christian education just might be the salvation for a hopelessly divided and confused AmericaA character in the historical movie Braveheart says of 13th-century Scotland, “from top to bottom this country has no sense of itself.”The same could be said of 21st-century… Read More
Big Tech, Opinion
COLUMN: Missouri senator, attorney general nearly alone in standing against government censorship on Facebook, Instagram, other social mediaJosh Hawley gives his U.S. Senate colleagues far too much credit when he excuses them for supposedly not knowing the extent of the Biden administration’s conspiracy to silence domestic… Read More
Opinion, Public Education
Opinion: Three of four upstart candidates for Nebraska State Board of Education notch big wins in midterm electionSpurred on by outrageous radicalism coming from members of the State Board of Education in Nebraska, four ordinary citizens made the decision to challenge the long-entrenched board establishment for… Read More
Opinion, Public Education
Lurching from fad to fad: The problematic history of education reform in AmericaEducation in the United States has lurched from fad to fad for the better part of a century, finding ever-ingenious ways to underperform preceding generations. The causes are myriad,… Read More
Opinion
Op-Ed: Defunding the Police will make Missouri less safeAs Missouri’s Attorney General, I have worked to get violent criminals off our streets and justice for victims. In my first weeks as your Attorney General, I… Read More
Christian Schools, Opinion
Catholic schools outperformed public schools across the nation. Here’s whyAccording to a data analysis performed by Kathleen Porter-Magee, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, “If Catholic schools were a state, they would be the highest performing in… Read More
Culture, Opinion, Public Education
Op-ed: School dress codes the latest target of a government agency seeking “equity”In a stunning example of bureaucratic uselessness, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) takes many pages, and presumably many dollars, to note that while most public schools have dress… Read More
Opinion
OPINION: Even formerly conservative Kansas towns’ churches and children dutifully spout woke newspeakThirty years ago, I was at a political conference in Washington. In my conversations with other conservative activists we all expressed concern about the climate of opinion in the… Read More
Opinion
Op-Ed: Illinois government unions seek more strike power to get more politicalThe Cook County College Teachers Union is planning a strike for the end of October unless the college’s students get housing and day care services (the teachers also… Read More