I’ve probably been reading a tad too much German education news recently, so probably made a leap in logic that not everyone will take with me. But this story about Knut, a baby polar bear who was abandoned by his mother in the Berlin Zoo, struck something within me that seems highly ironic. [...]
Monday in Get Schooled, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Bridget Gutierrez asks, “But will public education ever not be political?” My instinctive answer was spawned more by my not-always-well-controlled sarcastic tongue, “Will water ever not be wet?” Anything publicly funded is inherently political. But when did we as a nation develop such [...]
February 26, 2007 – 5:12 am
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a nonprofit education organization “whose purpose is to convey to successive generations of college youth a better understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free and virtuous society,” recently published the study, The Coming Crisis in Citizenship. The highlights:
A study of 14,000 college freshmen and seniors at 50 [...]
January 31, 2007 – 7:33 pm
From PublishersWeekly:
A three-year old controversy over a book espousing a young-earth Creationist view being sold at the Grand Canyon visitors center has resurfaced, with renewed media attention and more they-said, they-said hullabaloo.
In spite of the ongoing squabble, a National Park Service spokesman said it’s unlikely to review the sale at the Grand Canyon National Park [...]
December 18, 2006 – 1:57 pm
My email box has been flooded recently with a variety of links regarding the inherently violent nature of religion with only one clear conclusion to be drawn: religion is a social ill which needs to be corrected. Or, to use their terminology, a cultural virus to be vaccinated against.
Richard Dawkins equates religious instruction [...]
December 17, 2006 – 1:42 am
Mississippi has some of the most liberal homeschool laws in the nation, something state Superintendent of Education Hank Bounds would like to change. After all, while homeschoolers may point to famous homeschooled Americans such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Booker T. Washington and others, not every household has a George Washington in their tutelage.
Unfortunately, [...]
December 8, 2006 – 9:00 am
This summer, I visited the Alamo for the second time, but the first time did not affect me quite so deeply. Perhaps the first time I did not know the history as well. Or perhaps the events of today more vividly reminded me of what these men fought and died for. What [...]
November 19, 2006 – 5:30 am
OK, I posted the link to the first part of the article I wrote for Homeschool Enrichment Magazine that posted on Crosswalk. Now, all three sections are up. I hope you enjoy it.
Part I:
http://www.crosswalk.com/family/home_school/1443897.html
Part II:
http://crosswalk.com/family/home_school/1445926.html
Part III:
http://crosswalk.com/family/home_school/1446683.html
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