Category: Education & Schools

Faculty believe that it is their right and duty to set the campus agenda. Faculty expect to establish – either directly or indirectly – the main thrusts that their campuses will pursue. In particular, they see it as their prerogative …

When I’ve written about our listing mis-education system, my focus has mainly been on rampant political correctness, on how students learn few of the right things partially because of emphasis on teaching the wrong things. Yet there’s another problem: in …

If you want to know why we’re breeding some crazy youngsters nowadays, you only have to look at the adults surrounding them. A case in point is a Maryland elementary school that recently suspended a little child for using an …

If there’s anything the Newtown massacre has proven, it’s that school zones billed as “gun-free” cannot be guaranteed to thus be.

They’re only virtually certain to be good-guy-gun-free.

And it’s time for this symbolism-over-substance policy to end.

Radio frequency identification, or “RFID,” are microchips. They’re used to track inventory such as books, electronics, tools and pharmaceuticals.

They’ve been injected in livestock. And family pets. My dog has an RFID chip. These are acceptable uses.

Using RFID …

Mass higher education refers to the phenomenon, promoted aggressively by President Obama, whereby a tremendous proportion of the eligible population enrolls in the nation’s colleges. It presumes that any American high school graduate who desires a higher education should be …

Students at Capital High School (CHS) in Charleston, West Virginia have been regularly forced to stand during the playing of a song known as “The Black National Anthem.”

The song, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” was played in the morning right …

Everyone’s familiar with blatant forms of bigotry. But sometimes it’s the subtle forms in which the damage is far worse.

The Florida Board of Education has set goals for public schools students to reach achievement levels in reading and math. …

How many second-chances would your boss give you if came to work drunk? Or high on drugs? Thought so.

You’€™d be unemployed. Most businesses today have a zero tolerance policy.

California is now instituting laws prohibiting a therapist from counseling a child confused by same sex attractions. Parents are unable to legally find help. But a teacher can arrange for the child to be taken off campus to see a …

“What do you think of this?” So began a phone call from Todd Starnes of FoxNews radio. Starnes asked me for a comment on a shocking story: A band at a high school near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania performed a halftime show …

College has gotten ridiculously expensive as most parents already know. State universities can cost a lot.

The price of a single year at some private colleges can nearly equal the median income of a family of four. And there …

Have you ever asked yourself, “How can Progressives like President Obama hateAmerica? How can anyone who was raised in the most free and prosperous society in the History of the world believeAmericais an imperialistic power and the source of …

Next fall, the students of Hamilton Heights Elementary School in Harlem, New York are required to learn a second language.

Twenty-two percent of its students speak English as a second language. Learning another language is not new to them. Optional languages …

By: Alexa Lotito

Not everyone graduates from high school, gets accepted into college and graduates with a degree. It’s an honor to achieve all of those things and hopefully find a job in your field of study. Being the first …