Abstinence education must be working. The educational establishment is trying to fight it.
College Prep
All-Day Kinder(care)garten
Calls for more intensive early childhood education programs often accompany studies revealing that American students lag behind their international peers.
Mental Health Meltdown
A California community college professor recently made headlines when a student alleged that the professor encouraged him to seek counseling due to a patriotic term paper. Legislators and health advocates fear a new presidential initiative may make similar scenarios commonplace in public schools across the country.
Abstinence Minus
Widely-used sex education courses advertised as “comprehensive” give fleeting tributes to the value of abstaining from sexual intercourse while providing elaborate descriptions of how to practice contraception, a recent study by the Heritage Foundation shows.
The Child Abuse of Teacher Union Politics
As Dr. Cheri Yecke shows in her study, “Kids, Schools, and Politics: Protecting the Integrity of Taxpayer Resources,” teacher-union politicking does not begin when the school day ends.
Education Reforms Left Behind
Rod Paige reflected on his tenure at the Department of Education and asserted the importance of continuing the reforms of the past four years
Education Reform in the Second Term
After the 2004 election the President remarked that he had earned political capital, and on Monday it became clear that he intended to spend some of it on advancing the education reforms of his first term.
1+1=?
Those of us who suffered through the old math nevertheless saw the nice, linear relationship between the first numbers that we learned to add and subtract and the checkbooks that we had to balance later in life. Today’s public school students are not always so fortunate.
California Cartwheel
Diedra performed her cartwheel on the Tuesday before the Veterans Day holiday. She was then told that she was suspended the following day.
Graduating In Real Time?
Look to your right, look to your left. One out of three high school students may not graduate, an education analyst at a Washington, D. C. think-tank found.