What started out as a simple child welfare case in California has resulted in the most sweeping rejection of homeschooling in state history.
College Prep
School-Sponsored Smut
If high schools are sensitive about assigning Mark Twain’s great classic, Huckleberry Finn, due to its pejorative language, then why is Deerfield High promoting Angels in America?
Historical Fiction
Unfortunately, our collective history is unfamiliar to many American high schoolers. Responses to Common Core’s questionnaire, put to 1,200 17-year-olds, paint a startling portrait of teenage historical and literary ignorance.
School Board Union Label
If you think that you can go to your school board with complaints about teacher union efforts to block education reforms, think again.
California Cold War Education
Just when we thought the indoctrination in California’s public schools couldn’t get any worse, state lawmakers introduce bills that will further brainwash innocent children.
Your Cheating Kid
News stories this week show cheating on tests reaching epidemic proportions.
Just The Facts?
A joint project by the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Psychological Association (APA) is giving parents 16,000 new reasons to question the agenda of national teachers’ union leaders.
Wealth of Washington Principals
The average annual compensation package for each D.C. area school superintendent will run well over $350,000 per year
Teacher Pay Revisited
Traditional compensation systems, long advocated by teachers’ unions, emphasize degrees earned and time on the job but a budding merit-pay movement is attempting to change that, interjecting marketplace sensibilities into a profession that has historically provided few monetary incentives or rewards for high-fliers.
Global Warming Education Edict
SB 908, introduced by state Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), would require that “climate change” be taught in California public school science curriculum.