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The plan that U. S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling’s commission on higher education has concocted to transform the Ivory Tower looks a lot like No Child Left Behind—three parts funding, one part accountability. Nonetheless, as with NCLB and primary grades, the portion of the scheme that has the faculty lounge most apprehensive is the transparency section.

Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a civil rights lawsuit in defense of the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of a seventh grader who was allegedly ordered by a Maryland middle school employee to stop reading her Bible during free time at school or face disciplinary action.

Wednesday, September 27th, is the 17th annual official See You at the Pole prayer rally that will be held on the grounds of public schools around the United States.

Heritage Foundation analyst, Shanea Watkins cautions those who wish to tout public school performance as reflected by recent NCES stats.

College administrators are scratching their heads trying to figure our how the straight-A students they accepted tanked on the SATs.

The Catholic League has examined a number of history textbooks used in Californa to see how Catholicism is treated and taught.

No wonder so many kids can’t read, teachers are wasting all their pushing the gay agenda.

It’s official. We are a nation of illiterates, with college degrees, the U. S. Commission on the fuutre of higher education found at their recent meeting, but looked everywhere but at colleges and universities themselves to find the reason, much like most boards of trustees.

In brief: Unions’ blocking school reform, high school dropouts and Indian boarding school issues.

In an effort to stop childhood bullying, Britain’s National Union of Teachers (NUT) wants to begin classes for three years olds about same-sex relationship.

A report released yesterday by the Education Sector revealed that over $8 million had been given by the National Education Association to opponents of the No Child Left Behind Act. The organization has stated before that it would help “directly or indirectly, jointly or independently” other organizations that share their same agenda.

A school deemed the first gay high school, settled in court and cannot discriminate against heterosexual students because of federal funding.