A new analysis of charter schools in the U. S. is out from CREDO, the Stanford-based outfit that found in 2009, when there were 4,700 charters across 40 states, that 17 percent of the nation’s charter schools were scoring better on standardized tests
Why would a federal government which continuously refers to pro-lifers as terrorists be invited into private parochial schools by Catholic administrators?
The Louisiana Association of Educators is sending demand letters to private schools participating in the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence program, the state voucher plan, insisting that those schools pull out of the program.
I firmly believe that the purpose of education is to teach a person how to think independently and to question. Its purpose is to teach a person to think outside the box, be a self-starter and come up with new ideas. To learn how to question authorit
Gatto argues that educational strategies promoted by government and industry leaders for over a century included the creation of a system that keeps real power in the hands of very few people.
And what did we learn today, class? At Sacred Heart Catholic School in Shawano, Wisconsin, a recent lesson plan revealed to students that saying “I love you” in one’s native tongue is something worthy of disciplinary action.
Today M.I.T. university unveiled MITx, a new program that will enable students across the world to take a portfolio of its courses online and free of charge and choose to earn a certificate for demonstrating mastery of their subjects
One of the sad and dangerous signs of our times is how many people are enthralled by words, without bothering to look at the realities behind those words.
45 percent of students show no significant improvement in the key measures of critical thinking or complex reasoning by their sophmore year, explaining much about the American electorate.
Gary Franchi - Producer of "Enemy of the State: Camp FEMA Part 2" Now available / Kyle Olson - vice president of Education Action Group Foundation, a non-partisan non-profit organization
Former St. John’s University dean, Cecilia Chang, who was charged earlier this month with embezzling over $1 million in donations from the college, was nabbed again today by the FBI and accused using scholarship students as domestic servants.
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At the time, I was so frustrated that those public school bureaucrats were meddling with my son and our family, but now I’m more than a little pleased.
The success of Kumon Learning Centers is a testament to this thesis. Toru Kumon opened his first learning center in Japan in 1956. Today there are more than 26,000 Kumon Centers in 46 countries and over 4 million students. I doubt there is one nati
Is
anyone asking why it seems like many of the recent cases of H1N1 cases
are in the public schools? This phenomena is not isolated to the United
States. A pattern seems to be developing as reflected in the recent
outbreaks at public schools and Universities.
New Hampshire announced plans for "new rigorous state board of exams to be given to 10th graders. Students who pass will be prepared to move on to the state's community or technical colleges, skipping the last two years of high school,"
Dale Williams interviews the Educational Revolutionary John Taylor Gatto. The profound author of valued books telling of the awful educational betrayals that have occurred in America.
Money that helps to send about 25,000 kids to private and religious schools will be on the line Thursday as a federal appeals court hears oral arguments in an eight-year-old challenge to Arizona's scholarship-tax-credit law.
A DePaul University professor who has accused some Jews of improperly using the legacy of the Holocaust to get compensation payments has been denied tenure after a drawn-out public fight.
Norman Finkelstein, whose work led to a long-running public
Back in February, Melissa was seized from her family home in a dramatic police raid for the crime of home schooling - illegal since 1937 by edict of Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hitler - and placed with a foster home in a location unknown to her family.
The Independent School District of Burleson, Texas, just south of Ft. Worth is the first in the country to adopt a policy of training students to immediately fight back and use their advantage in numbers to take tactical control if a gunman enters th
A student newspaper at a Catholic university drew a rebuke from school officials for its April Fool's edition, which called Philadelphia's cardinal gay and included a mock ad in which the college president, a priest, endorsed a condom.
Instead of sending your money to the state government, you could use that money to help a student obtain a quality private- school education. Arizona's scholarship tax credit law allows Arizona residents to get tax credits for contributions.