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In UK schools, 90 children are sent home every day for attacks in class
Dina sent me this article from the UK Daily Mail. Excerpt: Official figures revealed that 90 children are sent home every day for attacking teachers or classmates. And the worst deterioration in...
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Chicago teacher strike: average pay $71K, 80% of 8th graders not proficient...
CBS News reports: Thousands of teachers, parents and supporters marched through downtown Chicago on the first day of a school strike. The crowd Monday afternoon stretched for several blocks and was...
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A parent’s guide to intelligent design and science education
An excellent PDF report prepared by the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Here are the contents: Introduction Part 1: What Is Intelligent Design? Part 2: What Is Evolution? Part 3:...
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Study explains why college women abandon courtship for hook-ups
This study is from the Institute for American Values. It was done by Elizabeth Marquardt. The PDF of study is here. If you download the 88 page PDF, the first few pages are an executive summary. I’d...
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American job creators struggling to find qualified applicants for basic jobs
From the Wall Street Journal. Excerpt: More than 600,000 jobs in manufacturing went unfilled in 2011 due to a skills shortage, according to a survey conducted by the consultancy Deloitte. The problem...
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Connecticut shooting shows why we need to ban gun-free zones
Do criminals about to do a mass shooting care about signs? (Thanks to TM for the image) USA Today has an editorial about the recent shooting in Connecticut and gun-free zones. Excerpt: “After a...
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John Fund: the facts about mass shootings
From National Review. This article was being shared a lot on Facebook. Excerpt: Mass shootings are no more common than they have been in past decades, despite the impression given by the media. In...
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Woman uses gun to defend herself and her children from home intruder
From WSB-TV in Georgia. (H/T Pro-Existence) Excerpt: A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety Friday. The incident happened at a home on...
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Study of elementary school children finds entrenched discrimination against boys
The study is here (PDF), and Susan Walsh writes about the study on her blog. (H/T Stuart Schneiderman) Excerpt: A new study of nearly 6,000 elementary school children has found that boys are...
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Economist Walter Williams blames school violence on secularism and moral...
Economist Walter Williams My two favorite economists are Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell. Both are conservative or libertarian. Both of them happen to be black. But neither is especially outspoken...
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Public school suspends 5-year-old girl for making threat with soap bubble gun
Fox News reports. Excerpt: A 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who told another girl she was going to shoot her with a pink Hello Kitty toy gun that blows soapy bubbles has been suspended from kindergarten....
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New study: feminism in education causes boys to underperform academically
From the Belfast Telegraph. Excerpt: A five-year study of hundreds of post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland has found flaws in our education system that could be hindering boys’ ability to learn. The...
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Armed guard stops school shooting in Atlanta
A report from The Blaze. Excerpt: A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun...
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New study: divorcing after kids turn seven causes them to underform at school
Dina sent me news of this interesting study from Medical Daily. Excerpt: Kids whose parents divorce after they turn seven are significantly more likely to suffer a drop in performance at school, a UK...
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Boy suspended for trying to save the world from evil with imaginary weapon
From the Denver Post. Excerpt: A 7-year-old Mary Blair Elementary School student says he’s confused about getting in trouble for trying to save the world from evil, though Thompson School District...
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U.S. Department of Justice arguing that homeschooling is not a right
Here’s a post on the Washington Times Communities page. Excerpt: In 1938, the practice of homeschooling was outlawed in Germany by Adolf Hitler and the infamous Third Reich. It was a rough period in...
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New study by HHS: Head Start early childhood education programs don’t work
This story is from last month, but I wanted to post about a government study that evaluated the government’s own Head Start early childhood education programs. Fox News reports on the study. Excerpt:...
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Florida high school student suspended after disarming gunman
Fox News reports. Excerpt: A 16-year-old Florida high school student says he was suspended for three days for wrestling a loaded gun away from a teen threatening to shoot. Fox4Now.com reports that the...
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What do children learn in “anti-bullying” school programs?
The answer might surprise you. Take a look at this article that Lydia found. Excerpt: Young girls at a New York middle school were instructed to ask one another for a lesbian kiss and boys were given...
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Alabama homeschooling family sends 6 kids to college – by age 12!
From NBC News. Excerpt: At 7, when many kids figure they might be firemen, Seth announced he would be a military archeologist. His mom, Mona Lisa, encouraged that curiosity. “Wow! That kid was into...
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Study explains why college women abandon courtship for hook-ups
This study is from the Institute for American Values. It was done by Elizabeth Marquardt. The PDF of study is here. If you download the 88 page PDF, the first few pages are an executive summary. I’d...
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One-third of recent college graduates say they should have skipped college...
From Forbes magazine, a word of caution to young people, especially to young men who intend to marry and have children. Excerpt: Here’s an indication of how burdensome student loans have become: About...
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Calgary boy disciplined by school for protecting classmate from knife attack
The UK Daily Mail reports. Excerpt: A schoolboy who bravely tackled a knife-wielding pupil who was threatening a classmate was punished because such heroic actions are strictly banned. Briar MacLean,...
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Was Hitler a Christian? Is Nazism similar to Christianity?
One of the strangest things I have heard from atheists is the assertion that Christianity is somehow connected to the fascism, such as the fascism that existed under Adolf Hitler. Two posts by Jewish...
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Report: growth in homeschooling is outpacing new public school enrollments
From Breitbart.com. (H/T ECM) Excerpt: A recent report in Education News states that, since 1999, the number of children who are homeschooled has increased by 75%. Though homeschooled children...
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If we redefine marriage, then what will the schools teach our children about it?
Here’s a good article in the Public Discourse. Excerpt: We need to be careful not to project our adult understandings onto children. They will develop identities based on the culture around them, not...
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New study: college women binge drinking more often than college men
Here’s an article about a recent Harvard study in U.S. News and World Report. Excerpt: Female college students exceed government-suggested limits on weekly alcohol consumption more often than male...
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Christina Hoff Sommers: school has become hostile to boys
Christina Hoff Sommers In the leftist Time magazine, of all places. Excerpt: As school begins in the coming weeks, parents of boys should ask themselves a question: Is my son really welcome? A flurry...
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Obama administration blocks Louisiana school voucher program
Fox News reports. Excerpt: The Justice Department is trying to stop a school vouchers program in Louisiana that attempts to help families send their children to independent schools instead of...
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Police invade home of homeschooling family and seize four children
The UK Daily Mail reports. Excerpt: Armed police in Germany launched a terrifying raid on a family’s home to seize their four children after they defied the country’s ban on home schooling. A team of...
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Women earned more doctoral and Master’s degrees than men in 2012
Women now earning majority of graduate degrees From the American Enterprise Institute Ideas blog. Excerpt: The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) released its annual report recently on U.S. graduate...
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Two girls charged with aggravated stalking after 12-year old victim commits...
From the NY Daily News. Excerpt: Guadalupe Shaw, 14, and another girl were charged with felony aggravated stalking in the suicide death of 12-year-old Rebecca Sedwick, who jumped off a tower last...
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Christina Hoff Sommers: helping boys succeed in school
An article from the leftist Time magazine by feminist Christina Hoff Sommers. (H/T Independent Women’s Forum) Excerpt: Being a boy can be a serious liability in today’s classroom. As a group, boys are...
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Questions for proponents of government-controlled redistribution of wealth
George Mason University economist Donald Boudreaux wrote a couple of articles asking people who complain about income inequality whether their solution of letting government redistribute wealth from...
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Heather McDonald: Campus sexual assault crisis is based on a fiction
This article by Heather McDonald from City Journal, the journal of the moderate, centrist Manhattan Institute. (H/T Dennis Prager) Excerpt: In the last few weeks… the White House has… created a new...
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Apprenticeship programs help boys develop maturity and job skills
If you have boys, or if you know any, then this article in the left-leaning Atlantic is a must-read for you. Excerpt: Young men are more likely to drop out of high school and are less likely to aspire...
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Thomas Sowell: is the political left really concerned about helping minorities?
Economist Thomas Sowell Do people who talk about race the most actually favor policies to help minorities? Thomas Sowell writes about it in Investors Business Daily. Excerpt: If anyone wanted to pick a...
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A closer look at the Islamization of schools in the UK
Here is a story from the UK Telegraph that should concern us all. (H/T Dennis Prager) The news story: The Birmingham school at the centre of an alleged campaign of “Islamisation” by Muslim radicals is...
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Melissa Cain Travis: public schools and the Christian worldview
This is a must-read post for all Christian parents about public schools, by homeschooling mom and Christian apologist Melissa Cain Travis. Excerpt: A secularized education communicates the falsehood...
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Study explains why college women embrace binge-drinking and hooking up
College students throwing up after binge drinking This study is from the Institute for American Values. Despite their name, they are not conservatives. It was done by Norval Glenn and Elizabeth...
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Study of elementary school children finds entrenched discrimination against boys
The study is here (PDF), and Susan Walsh writes about the study on her blog. (H/T Stuart Schneiderman) Excerpt: A new study of nearly 6,000 elementary school children has found that boys are...
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Christina Hoff Sommers: helping boys succeed in school
An article from the leftist Time magazine by feminist Christina Hoff Sommers. Excerpt: Being a boy can be a serious liability in today’s classroom. As a group, boys are noisy, rowdy and hard to...
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Planned Parenthood, an abortion business, is in California schools teaching...
This is from Life Site News. Excerpt: A group of high school parents in the East Bay area of San Francisco were surprised and upset when they learned Planned Parenthood was teaching sex education to...
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Was Hitler a Christian? Is Nazism similar to Christianity?
A conflict of worldviews One of the strangest things I have heard from atheists is the assertion that Christianity is somehow connected to the fascism, such as the fascism that existed under Adolf...
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Public schools received more money, but produced lower student test scores
Now, we’ve already seen the dangers of Democrats like Hillary Clinton refusing to do her job at the State Deparment. During her term, she focused on promoting abortion abroad and on promoting LGBT...
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Christina Hoff Sommers: helping boys succeed in school
Christina Hoff Sommers An article from the leftist Time magazine by feminist Christina Hoff Sommers. Excerpt: Being a boy can be a serious liability in today’s classroom. As a group, boys are noisy,...
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Study of elementary school children finds entrenched discrimination against boys
The study is here (PDF), and Susan Walsh writes about the study on her blog. Excerpt: A new study of nearly 6,000 elementary school children has found that boys are discriminated against beginning in...
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New study: discipline in schools is more effective than increased government...
Education spending has tripled since 1970 – but where are the results? New study reported by Phys.org. (H/T Mark) Excerpt: Discipline in schools has a greater impact and is more important to...
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Was Hitler a Christian? Is Nazism similar to Christianity?
A conflict of worldviews One of the strangest things I have heard from atheists is the assertion that Christianity is somehow connected to the fascism, such as the fascism that existed under Adolf...
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Study explains why university women embrace binge-drinking and hook ups
College students throwing up after binge drinking This study is from the Institute for American Values. Despite their name, they are not conservatives. It was done by Norval Glenn and Elizabeth...
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