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- Thomas Jefferson -
Miscellaneous News Items(See related Commentary by Alan Caruba below)
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Featured Commentaries
Alan Caruba looks at the Bush Spending Plan
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Mrs. Schlafley discusses "Diversity Training"
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John Leo looks at society's rejection of boyhood behavior
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Jonah Goldberg argues for the standard of excellence
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Right Intentions, Wrong Results
by Jay Mathews
Teachers' Concern for Students Often an Impediment to Raising Standards
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By Alan Caruba
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Other Commentary(see our archives for opinion on a variety of issues)
Debra Saunders looks the Edison schools' success,
and why the liberals can't stand it
Dr. Ronald Nash examines the notion of "value neutral" education
Paul Craig Roberts looks at the societal consequences
of sex ed, and how the true is the maxim "you reap what you sow"
Mrs. Schlafley looks at the political nature of vaccine mandates,
and the evidence that mandates may not be best for children
Charley Reece looks at the various means of controlling the
masses and wonders: is this happening to us?
Book review and commentary by J.C. Bowman of the
Tennessee Public Policy Foundation
Mona Charen discusses John McWhorter's new book
about the culture of ignorance in the minority community
Paul Craig Roberts looks at the government and school
trends toward punishing parents for punishing their children
Anonymous - a teacher describes the current state of public school
Dr. Shapiro looks at recent developments in cases where
minorities claim test bias
Walter Williams evaluates some of the causes of minority
failures in school.
Dr. Shapiro examines the evolution of public schools, from
places of learning to distributors of social services
John Taylor Gatto's Speech to the Vermont Homeschooling Conference
Remarks by House Majority Leader Dick Armey At Odyssey Charter School, Pasadena, California February 22, 2000
Pay for Your Own Day Care - Michelle Malkin comments
on the growing trend of schools as social services providers
Debra Saunders (Visit Reports and Research to look at the Brookings Study)
Death by a Thousand Cuts: The ACLU's Attack on Public Education - by Thomas E. Wheeler, II
by The Family Research Council
Phyllis Schlafly says attacks on abstinance based programs
get more severe
Matthew Robinson comments on Hollywood's apoplectic fit
at the preview of The Patriot
Thomas Sowell accuses both parties of using schools as a political
football, to the detriment of students
Mrs. Schlafly looks at the problems with bilingual education.
By Misty Dawn Mealey - Rightgrrl Contributor August 23, 2000
public education - By Nick Gillespie
"Multicultural" Education - Thomas Sowell
Mrs. Schlafly looks at the growing trend of commercialism in schools.
Dr. Mark Shapiro offers a review of the book by Maureen Stout
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