“Yes,” according to psychology professor Jean Twenge, who says that the smartphone and social media are the cause… Continue reading →

Walter E. Williams, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Economics, George Mason University.

Much of today’s incivility and contempt for personal liberty has its roots on college campuses, and most of the uncivil and contemptuous are people with college backgrounds. Let’s look at a few highly publicized recent examples of incivility and attacks on free speech.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, were accosted and harassed by a deranged left-wing mob as they were leaving a dinner at Georgetown University. Sen. McConnell was harassed by protesters at Reagan National Airport, as well as at several venues in Kentucky. Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife were harassed at a Washington, D.C., restaurant. Continue reading →

John Taylor Gatto

“Our form of compulsory schooling is an invention of the State of Massachusetts around 1850. It was resisted — sometimes with guns — by an estimated eighty percent of the Massachusetts population, the last outpost in Barnstable on Cape Cod not surrendering its children until the 1880s, when the area was seized by militia and children marched to school under guard.” – John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. Continue reading →

“In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children that the leaders are good and their policies are wise.” ~ Marshall Fritz

The band Bowling for Soup has a song called “High School Never Ends.”

In it, the singer complains that he thought all the terrible things about high school would end once he graduated.

Unfortunately, he discovers…

The whole damned world is just as obsessed
With who’s the best dressed and who’s having sex
Who’s got the money, who gets the honeys
Who’s kinda cute and who’s just a mess
And you still don’t have the right look
And you don’t have the right friends
Nothing changes but the faces, the names and the trends
High school never ends…

I couldn’t help thinking of this song as I watched four videos this week of “tattle-tales” calling the police for the dumbest reasons. Continue reading →

A third-grade teacher from the city of Los Angeles — a liberal “educator” from the land of fruits and nuts? Now the rest of the story makes sense — had come up with a chart to help her students understand the concept of “consent.”

If this sounds far too young to be learning something like this, don’t worry. The same school probably also teaches kids it’s okay to practice homosexuality and gender confusion. Why not round out the package deal with an extra dose of insanity? Continue reading →

“It is the duty of the citizen to judge all political acts on the great principles of the government.”

February 3, 2017 ~ Following Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court, my morning commute was wall-to-wall with it, including plenty of weasel words (e.g., Senator Schumer’s fixation on tarring him as “outside the mainstream”) and heat (e.g., Congresswoman Pelosi’s assertion it was “a very hostile appointment”). One talking head quipped that the acute divide was because Americans weren’t taught civics anymore. Continue reading →

Despite pressure from progressives who would like to change Texas history, that state’s board of education has held firm.

An unelected work group has again made radical recommendations for the Texas school curriculum. Among those recommendations: remove the word “heroic” from the description of the Alamo defenders, remove all references to America’s Judeo-Christian heritage and legal tradition – and fully remove references to the Old Testament prophet Moses as a historical figure related to law and government. Continue reading →

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (WCMH) – Should students get credit for work not handed in?

One Florida teacher said no, and took a stand, and now she’s been fired for that move. Continue reading →

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A few years ago, I took a summer job working at a local school’s childcare program. I was placed with a group of students grades four through eight. I had a great experience, but I will admit it was not easy. Some of the children had me positively pulling out my hair. I’m not alone in this – teachers, parents, and childcare providers across the board are increasingly concerned about children misbehaving. Continue reading →

Since No Child Left Behind first rumbled onto the scene, the use of a Big Standardized Test to drive accountability and measure success has been a fundamental piece of education reform. But recently, some education reform stalwarts are beginning to express doubts.

This may not be the key to a better tomorrow. (Getty Royalty Free)

There are plenty of reasons to doubt the validity of the Big Standardized Test, be it PARCC or SBA or whatever your state is using these days. After almost two decades of its use, we’ve raised an entire generation of students around the notion of test-based accountability, and yet the fruits of that seem…. well, elusive. Where are the waves of students now arriving on college campuses super-prepared? Where are the businesses proclaiming that today’s grads are the most awesome in history? Where is the increase in citizens with great-paying jobs? Where are any visible signs that the test-based accountability system has worked? Continue reading →

Stress levels are sky-rocketing among every age group, and students adjusting to their first year of college may be particularly vulnerable.

All around the world, young adults making their first foray into college and the real world are struggling with depression, anxiety and other mental health disorders

Schools have taken steps to meet the psychological needs of their student body, but a far smaller fraction of the students utilize on-campus counseling services, but that hasn’t curbed rising rates of mental health disorders among students around the world, according to the new Columbia University study. Continue reading →

The earth’s about to be destroyed, and you’ve got a spaceship that can carry people to another planet. The problem is, you can only take eight passengers and you’ve got a list of twelve. Four will have to be left behind to die. Which eight do you take?

This inane scenario was recently a classroom “lesson” at a middle school in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Somehow it’s supposed to “educate” children and prepare them for adult life.

Meanwhile, down in Atlanta, the principal of a charter school decided the Pledge of Allegiance ought to be dropped, and replaced by some kind of “oath” to the “global society”, whatever the devil that is.

Your school tax dollars at work! Continue reading →