Education
Maryland School Teaches Sixth Graders About Being ‘Transgender’ and ‘Nonbinary’
In celebration of “Transgender Awareness Week,” Westland Middle School, in Bethesda, Maryland, gave sixth grade students lessons on “transgenderism” and “being nonbinary.” As reported by Fox News, the 11- and 12-year-old students were inculcated…
Religious and Medical Freedoms Score Win in W.Va.
-slav-/iStock/Getty Images Plus Schools in West Virginia may no longer prevent unvaccinated children from attending, since a court ruled to allow religious and philosophical exemptions for vaccines.On November 26, circuit judge Michael…
Lessons from Albert Jay Nock – Religion & Liberty Online
Albert Jay Nock, the early-20th-century American social critic, offered a vision of education that challenged the prevailing assumptions of his time. He warned that mass schooling, designed primarily to transmit information and enforce…
University of Colorado Pays $10 Million to Students, Staff Denied Religious Exemptions From Jab Mandate
Jeffrey Beall/Wikimedia Commons The University of Colorado (CU) Anschutz School of Medicine recently agreed to pay over $10.3 million to employees and students it denied religious exemptions from its since-rescinded Covid-19 vaccine…
1,000 Professors (Supposedly) Flee the South. Reason? Their Universities Said “NO Wokeness.”
SDI Productions/iStock/Getty Images Plus In “a school to-day the baby has to submit to a system that is younger than himself,” observed philosopher G.K. Chesterton in 1910. “The flopping infant of four actually has more experience, and…
Chicago Schools Spent Millions on Travel While Students Floundered
Kseferovic/Wikimedia CommonsLincoln Park High School in Chicago Chicago Public Schools (CPS) spent millions of dollars on lavish trips for employees and students while failing to educate pupils, according to a report from CPS’ Office of…
Bill Maher: Trump Right on Ending Education Dept.
skynesher/iStock/Getty Images Plus Here’s a question: How much replication do we need in government?How many levels of government must we have doing the same thing — and sometimes conflicting with each other?How many captains should there…
Trump Administration Moves Step Closer to Dismantling Department of Education
It’s not every day when a department of the federal government is actively and vocally advocating for its own closure – but that’s what’s happening these days within the Department of Education. Linda McMahon, who heads up the department,…
Florida Becomes First State in the Nation to Adopt Education Freedom Declaration
Florida become the first state in the nation to adopt an important new education freedom declaration pledging parental choice, transparency and academic excellence in schools. On November 13, the Florida State Board of Education unanimously…
Troubling New Survey Shows 90 Percent Of Graduating High School Seniors Don’t Know The Airspeed Velocity Of An Unladen Swallow
PALO ALTO, CA — A startling new study out of Stanford University shows almost all graduating high school seniors in the U.S. are unable to recall the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow."The data are troubling, to say the least,"…