Many simply shake their heads in confusion and disbelief at reports of peace rallies on college campuses from coast to coast. At such an unprecedented time of pro-American sentiments, and in light of the magnitude of horror of September 11, it seems almost impossible...
Education
Interview: The Well Trained Mind and Homeschooling
When her daughter Susan started kindergarten in Virginia in 1972, Jessie Wise quickly heard complaints from Susan's teacher that the child would become a social misfit because she wanted to read during free time instead of playing. This was not good news for Wise,...
Microsoft Goes to School: You’re An Evil Predator; Now Teach My Kids
The settlement of the Microsoft anti-trust case got interesting this week -- and developments revealed the laughably absurd nature of much of the suit against the company. Reports in the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere revealed that Mister...
Bill Clinton’s anti-American speech at Georgetown University
Nothing is an outrage when the reigning fad is being non-judgmental. So perhaps it is not surprising that there has been no nationwide chorus of condemnation of Bill Clinton's anti-American speech at Georgetown University. According to the former president, America is...
The Child Welfare Act Versus Children
In a world where the media are ready to magnify innocuous remarks or a minor problem into a trauma or a disaster, there is remarkably little attention being paid to cruelties routinely inflicted on children by our laws and our courts. That cruelty is ripping children...
On Sept 11: Open Letter to University Students
The events of September 11 have been the primary subject of discussion on college campuses across America. A patriotic fervor has been revived, with flags popping up in virtually every yard and on every car. However, after reading the editorials that appeared in last...
Teachers, Guns, and Zero-Tolerance Tyranny
When the new school year begins, Deena Esteban will not be among the legions of educators welcoming students back to class. That's because Mrs. Esteban, a 43-year-old art teacher in Prince William County, Va., lost the job she loved after being convicted of a felony...
Death Among Children: Tragedy at Tommy Lee’s
A 4-year-old boy died last weekend at the Malibu home of rock star Tommy Lee. How any right-thinking parents could entrust their child to a drug-addled celebrity who pled no contest to kicking his ex-wife (actress Pamela Anderson) while she held their newborn baby is...
Inept Teacher Training
American education will never be improved until we address a problem seen as too delicate to discuss. That problem is teacher philosophy and incompetency. If we were serious about efforts to improve public education, we'd shut down schools of education. Why? Schools...
The Child Manipulators
On Friday (June 29, 2001), ABC news correspondent John Stossel aired a hard-hitting report challenging the environmentalist movement and suggesting that "tampering with nature" makes human life better -- that such "unnatural" phenomena as clean water, heated homes and...
Self Confidence for Children
Q : My wife and I want to teach our four-year-old son to have self-confidence. How can we teach him? A: This is too vast a subject to appropriately answer in a short column. I can, however, give you some general principles. Here they are:Make sure you are confident...
Home-Schooling Under Siege
There's nothing like stiff competition to bring out the worst in government. Nowhere does this prove more true than in the battle between home-schooling parents and public school bureaucrats. In Maryland, local prosecutors are moving forward with a little-noticed case...
Virginia State University Tyranny
If we had to single out one American institution that stands at the forefront of modern-day racial discrimination, deception and contempt for fundamental principles of liberty, it would be America's universities. Under the euphemisms of affirmative action,...
Look Who’s Supporting School Choice Now!
No wonder the California Teachers Association was howling. Ray Haynes actually wanted them to practice what they preach. Haynes, a Republican state senator from California, recently introduced legislation in Sacramento that would have required public school teachers...
Grade Padding at Harvard University
Our colleges are losing touch with reality. The padded grades they're giving out don't help our students. Harvey C. Mansfield teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. And if there were a class in "how to get yourself into trouble with your bosses and your...
School Children as Political Cannon Fodder for “Social Causes”
Test scores are not the only things that tell us how bad our public schools have become. In San Francisco, the school board voted unanimously to have the city's students take Friday, March 9th, off to go to Berkeley, in order to stage a protest demonstration,...
The Wrong Question to Ask About The Tragic School Shootings
After every tragic school shooting -- and many other shocking murders -- the question gets asked: "How could he do such a thing?" This has become the centerpiece of a whole set of rituals. Another part of these rituals is the appearance of shrinks, like ambulance...
Columbia University Scraps Due Process For Political Correctness?
Say you're accused of a sexual offense and you're forbidden to confront your accuser, have an attorney present or cross-examine witnesses. Where are you? A) IraqB) IranC) CubaD) Columbia University If your final answer was "D," you're right, but don't expect $1...
What Non-Profit Colleges Hate More Than Academic Censorship: For-Profit Colleges
YOU MAY NEVER HAVE HEARD of the University of Phoenix, but it has more students than Harvard, Yale or Notre Dame ---- combined. There is a reason you probably have not heard of the University of Phoenix. It represents a new development in higher education and one that...
The U.S. Child and Family Services Gestapo Targets Parents
This Christmas season, take a moment to say a prayer for the many innocent people sent to prison by injustice. You can safely say, "There, but for the grace of God, go I," because the myriad causes of well-intentioned people have made it possible for anyone, no matter...
UNICEF Kills the Little Children…
"Breast is best." No, it's not the new slogan for Hooters restaurant. It's the mantra of breast-feeding advocates who promote their cause with a cult-like fervor around the world. Their extremism must be condemned. I have nothing against breast-feeding. After weighing...
Children of the Damned: How We Are ‘Saving’ Our Children by Raising Them to Become Serfs
For almost a century the Soviet Union preached the doctrine of service to "the people." Toil, sacrifice, and suffer, the Soviet propagandists told their subjects; it is all being done for the good of "the people." As time went on, of course, the people found that they...
Politically Funded Education Enshrines Mediocrity
A new poll claims that a large majority of American parents are very happy with their child's public school. This is certainly not my experience. I am a family therapist in Montgomery County, Maryland -- the location of one of the "best" public school systems in the...
School Choice Wars
All politicians come out 200 percent in favor of education, especially when an election is coming up. What that usually means is that they are prepared to dump more billions of taxpayer dollars down the bottomless pit of our failing public schools, whether or not that...
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