It was recently revealed that the “Common Core” curriculum crams partisan political ideas into children’s minds. For example, a grade school grammar exercise has students write, “[The president] makes sure the country’s laws are fair,” “Government...
It’s all over the news. Between 57% and 61% of high school graduates have little chance of succeeding in college. That’s according to the organizations that produce the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the American College Test (ACT). High school...
Carson Huey graduated from high school with a perfect 4.0 grade point average and a 1770 Scholastic Aptitude Test score. He is now a freshman at Texas Christian University, studying calculus, physics, history, and religion for a total of 14 credit...
Picture this: It wasn’t easy, but you and your husband were able to set aside enough money so that you could remove your ten-year-old daughter from the public school and enroll her at a Catholic school where you expected her to get a good education...
I have been an admirer of Michelle Rhee ever since she was appointed the chancellor of the Washington D.C. School System in 2007. Her Herculean task at the time was to turn the most dysfunctional school system in America into a functional one. ...
If you think American students’ language deficiency is a new problem, think again. It was first identified before World War I when Americans who traveled in Europe noticed how well Europeans, particularly the French, spoke and wrote their native...
As I write, The Hunger Games continues as the top box office hit. The film depicts a future North America divided into districts, each of which must send a boy and a girl to compete in an annual, nationally televised kill-or-be-killed competition. ...
Utah blogger Deseret Dawg (Yes, I hope itʼs pseudonym, too.) reports that the board of education in the Canyons School District in Salt Lake Valley, Utah, has decided that the nickname for the new Corner Canyon High School will be the Chargers. “So...
