Education
Why Students MUST Learn the Good, Bad & Ugly of America’s History
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:29 — 6.9MB)Subscribe: Android | | More America’s history should be taught as a living story of flawed people used by God for His purposes—not as…
NY Times Declares War on Homeschooling
AleksandarNakic/iStock/Getty Images Plus Allowing parents to educate their own children at home puts them at risk of all sorts of problems and abuses without massive state “oversight,” declared an anti-homeschooling activist this week in…
Education Department Launches ‘Presidential 1776 Award’ to Promote Civics Education
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) on Monday announced the creation of the Presidential 1776 Award, a national competition meant to promote civic knowledge ahead of America’s Semiquincentennial – the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of…
FAFSA Mandates: Federal Overreach Masquerading as Help for Students
Andrii Dodonov/iStock/Getty Images Plus Across the country, lawmakers are quietly advancing a new front in federal control over education by mandating that high-school seniors complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)…
Somali Flag Raised Over Vermont School District
Derek Brumby/iStock/Getty Images Plus A school district in Vermont faces backlash after raising a Somali flag on its property on December 5.“We are raising the Somali flag this week in honor of our Somali youth and families in Winooski…
Letitia James Sued for Threatening School Boards That Permit Free Speech on LGBT Issues
AP ImagesLetitia James A coalition of school-board members and parents is suing New York Attorney General Letitia James and other state officials over their threats to remove school-board members who express or allow parents to express…
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…