Education

A Punishing Educational Curriculum

The result is that it now takes an M.A. to become a shift manager at a fast food restaurant.



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ACLU of PA Sues School District For Illegally Searching Student’s Cell Phone

School Turned Over Girl’s Private Nude Photos to Law Enforcement



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Texas Text: How Lone Star Evangelicals Are Determining What The Nation’s Children Learn, Why It Isn’t Education, And Why It Might Not Be So Bad After All

To study the regrettable parts of our past is not to excoriate America, and it is delusional to imply that the United States has never done wrong.

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To Be or Not to Be…. Better

Drama is the most effective form of the arts to develop confidence in youth and love of the learning process



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On Work and Gratitude: KU Commencement 2008

But then I realized he wasn’t in love with her, he was in AWE of her and what she had done. Here was a child who knew what her job was. She understood her place in the world, and she performed her work with distinction.



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Will American Students Be The Primary Focus

Will American students continue to be the primary focus, economically, socially and politically in our own country?



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Support The Troops Day

Our undercover teacher is back providing more glimpses into the miseducation of our students.

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Bringing Back Good Education

Jane Ferriera offers a glimpse into one alternative approach to education. Read about the inception of The Noble Project, a home school cooperative in Kutztown, PA.



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The Leaning Ivory Tower of Academia: Regulating the Marketplace of Ideas

Academia is a marketplace of ideas, and just as people can vote with their wallets students can vote with their feet.

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Nickel and Dimed in Academia

Employing qualified teachers with little to no chance of advancement at poverty-level wages to save a buck is in direct opposition to the social values taught to students by the academy.



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