LGBT and fourth-graders
By Phil Brizzolara: My poor niece is about to be brainwashed in the Chicago Public Schools — and, I fear, her liberal parents will be okay with it.
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Hate Hoaxes Have a Home Here
By Laurie Higgins: Here’s a list of hoaxes alleging anti-“gay” and/or racist incidents. I’m sure government schoolteachers will be covering these in their unit on political hoaxes.
Read MoreToday’s kids don’t know how good they have it
By Richard Jack Rail: Today’s education system virtually ensures that no kid will be exposed to anything that will provide perspective. With greater resources than ever before, our kids have no sense of history….
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651 NEW ILLINOIS PUBLIC PENSIONERS AVERAGE $1.3M IN ESTIMATED RETIREMENT BENEFITS
Too bad so few Illinoisans will learn about this — here is Adam Schuster: Newly retired government workers’ lifetime pension benefits will far exceed what they contributed toward their own retirements Since July 1,…
Read MoreIllinois K-12 School Districts Losing Students, Gaining Administrators
By Adam Schuster: Despite shrinking populations of students and teachers, Illinois school districts have continued to grow their administrative bodies.
Read MoreWe Must Say No to the 1619 Project in Schools
By Lloyd Marcus: As a proud and grateful American who happens to be black, I find the New York Times’ 1619 Project absurd, extremely divisive, cruel, and evil.
Read MoreThe 1619 Project: The great progressive diversion
By Marcus Ebenhack: The New York Times has announced the 1619 Project, and its leftist friends are already lapping it up. MSNBC hails it thusly: “How slavery has defined America today.” That’s right. Slavery…
Read MoreTransgender Fascism
By Arnold Ahlert: The appalling story of an Illinois family’s encounter with a school district’s Rainbow Mafia.
Read MoreShort-Circuiting the Natural Love of Learning in Young People
By David Solway: There can be little doubt that the majority of today’s students are largely incapable of literate performance. They are also collectively devoid of humility before the majesty of the Great Tradition…
Read MoreDecades of Intensifying Left-Wing Influence on High School Students
By E. Jeffrey Ludwig: Tens of thousands or more people are graduating high school having used this book, and thus are influenced to believe that American history is mainly about the exploitation of women,…
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Scholastic’s New School Catalog Hawks Books To Saturate Kids With Identity Politics
Joy Pullmann is one of the best writers on education — here she looks at Scholastic’s new school catalog: The world’s largest publisher and distributor of books to kids, which hosts the No. 1-visited…
Read MoreHow Government Programs Ruined Childhood
By Kerry McDonald: The inevitable result of expanded government powers is less control over education by parents. As parents lose this control, they cede more authority to government bureaucracies, which in turn grow more powerful…
Read MoreWhat Will They Learn at College?
By Walter E. Williams: It turns out that less than half of the schools studied require courses in traditional literature, foreign language, U.S. government, or history and economics.
Read MoreThe Chicago Teachers Union’s Venezuela solidarity trip: Salute to our tipster and certain teachers.
By Mark Glennon: It’s fascinating to see how a story can be overlooked, ignored, but then propagate quickly, even across the national media. So it was with a story we broke thanks to a reader…
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The demise of public education
David L. Rosenthal calls public education “an institutionalized form of child abuse”: One may believe that those in charge of public education are qualified to administer the task of educating America’s youth. One may…
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