Notable: Teaching to the Test

But what if the test expects you to spout things that simply aren’t true in order to pass?

The new Florida exit exam standards are [...]

May 19th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: POLITICS, WORLDVIEW | Comments are closed

Mosque Trip in Boston

Still sending your kids to public schools?

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September 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: NEWS | Comments are closed

The Cost of Public Education

Next month’s opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as [...]

August 23rd, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: NEWS | Comments are closed

The Value of a College Degree

As the warm glow of college commencement ceremonies gives way to the cold reality of today’s job market, this year’s graduates and their anxious parents [...]

June 21st, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: OTHER | Comments are closed

What Do They Teach?

Take a look at these documents from a Texas classroom, if you want to really know.

Read them carefully… Do you notice anything wrong [...]

May 8th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: HOMESCHOOL, WORLDVIEW | Comments are closed

Teacher’s Teachers Fail

It sounded like a great idea: Stanford education professors would create a model school to show how to educate low-income Hispanic and black students.

Or, [...]

April 30th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: HOMESCHOOL, NEWS, WORLDVIEW | Comments are closed

Send in the Clones

The Wall Street Journal (subscription required for the full article) captured this bit of testimony before the Supreme Court:

The dean is Leo Martinez of [...]

April 30th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: CHRISTIAN LIVING, WORLDVIEW | Comments are closed

Would More Money Really Help?

The chart to the left, found over at Heritage, shows the number of students per teacher in the public school system since 1950. The remarkable [...]

April 26th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: HOMESCHOOL | Comments are closed

It's for the Kids

A Seattle mother is irate after she said her 15-year-old daughter’s school arranged an abortion for her daughter without her knowledge.

The mother, whose name [...]

April 1st, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: NEWS | Comments are closed

Centered on Government

The Kansas City Missouri School Board voted Wednesday night to shutter nearly half of its schools in an effort to avoid going broke. The action [...]

March 25th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: NEWS, WORLDVIEW | Comments are closed
 
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