Letting children stay up just a little longer ‘could damage school performance‘
Most parents have faced a grumpy child who refuses to go to bed.
But letting them stay up just a bit longer could damage their performance at school, says an expert on child development.
Parents should stick to one fixed time, because their child’s reading and maths could suffer, warns Dr Yvonne Kelly from University College London.
She told the World Sleep Society that seven-year-old girls and three-year-olds of both sexes perform less well in tests if they do not have a regular bedtime. Continue reading
By now it’s old news that many Americans can no longer think for themselves. True, they have strong opinions, but often those opinions are influenced by prominent leaders and can turn around as quickly as the winds of political favor.
NPR and WAMU looked into the seniors who graduated from Ballou High School in 2017, a school located in a poverty stricken area of the nation’s capital, to see how much school the graduating students missed. Ballou High School was previously heavily praised for all students in its senior class getting into college. 
In considering modern liberal plagues, are there any worse than America’s debased ‘free’ education system? John Dewey, patron saint of American education, ruined our school curriculum while adamantly rejecting religion yet touting of secular humanism. In fact, not only did the atheistic Dewey sign the Humanist Manifesto I, but the prolific writer probably authored much of it, as well.
Prior to passage of America’s first compulsory schooling statute, in Massachusetts in 1852, it was generally accepted that education was a broad societal good and that there could be many ways to be educated: at home, through one’s church, with a tutor, in a class, on your own as an autodidact, as an apprentice in the community–and often all of the above.
Yale University has caved to the demands of student Social Justice Warriors, and will no longer require English majors to study or read Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth, or T.S. Eliot to obtain their degrees. 
On May 31st ()2013), president Barack Obama strolled into the bright sunlight of the Rose Garden, covered from head to toe in the slime and ooze of the Benghazi and IRS scandals. In a Karl Rove-ian masterstroke, he simply pretended they weren’t there and changed the subject.
On a wind-swept, frigid night in February 2009, a 37-year-old schoolteacher named Scott Nailor parked his rusted ’92 Toyota Tercel in the parking lot of a Fireside Inn in Auburn, Maine. He picked this spot to have a final reckoning with himself. He was going to end his life.
On April 13, 1743 a young child was born into the world that would change the course of American history. This child was the third of ten eventual siblings. His father was born in the Colonies and his mother was born in England and migrated to the Colonies where she met her future husband.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Teachers in Pennsylvania’s capital city are asking for support after a series of violent altercations with students has led to multiple resignations.
In 1913, Woodrow Wilson was the newly elected president. Wilson and his fellow progressives scorned the Constitution and the Declaration. They moved swiftly to replace the Founders’ republic with a new regime.
Emotional video resignation by veteran teacher slams ‘depressing gradual downfall of public education’
It would be a mistake or, at any rate, an exaggeration to say that modern education has turned its back on morality.