Education Garbage Dump

By Joel Turtel.

Suppose a contractor was building a house for you, and for some strange reason he convinced you to build your house on a garbage dump. The house was supposed to cost $150,000 to build, but the contractor is having problems. Every time he tries to lay his foundations, the foundations sink in the earth that [...]

Educational Malpractice

By Concerned Women for America.

An Illinois School District is defending its decision to assign summer reading to 12- and 13-year-olds that is replete with harsh profanity and references to teen sex (even teen sex with adults). Prairie Junior High School’s required summer reading list for rising 8th graders gave children six books from which to choose. Parents complained that [...]

Fixing Our Schools — A No-Brainer

By Beverly Eakman.

How many education majors are specializing in any of the following: visual and auditory memory, visual identification, spatial and abstract reasoning, mental stamina (i.e., concentration), perceptual speed, hand-eye coordination, and thought-expression synchronization? Don’t bother looking. You probably won’t find any. High-priced learning centers, on the other hand, make increasing use of cutting-edge scientific research to [...]

Who’s Tending Your Garden?

By Coach Dave Daubenmire.

Do you remember the old TV game show from the 60s “You Don’t Say”? It had a tag-line that went like this: It’s not what you say that counts; it’s what you don’t say. Well, pardon me if I steal that line and edit it a bit. I would say that [...]

I’ll Have to Pray On It

By Coach Dave Daubenmire.

Last week I saw a story in the local paper that made me squirm. It seems that a public library was putting up a fight over the placement of sexually-suggestive books in the children’s section of the library. When a politically incorrect parent complained about the placement of such materials in an area that was [...]

Christian Abandonment of Their Children

By Jim Fell.

Many well-intentioned Christian parents today send their children off to the government schools each day with the misguided, albeit well-intentioned, belief that their children are “strong” in the faith and need to serve Christ as His witnesses in a darkened world (i.e. the public schools). Tragically, what once used to truly be public schools, of, [...]

Burma Refugees See Relief

By Christian Freedom International.

Bertha Say Dah and Mercy Htoo, two teenage girls from war-ravaged Burma , have a lot to be thankful for. From the midst of a harsh, impoverished life in a refugee camp, both were selected to attend a vocational school run by Christian Freedom International in Mae Sot, Thailand , where they learned English, computer [...]

The Trojan Bus

By Jim Fell.

New national data shows school bus-related accidents send 17,000 U.S. children to emergency rooms each year, more than double the number in previous estimates that only included crashes. … The researchers said the results provide a strong argument for requiring safety belts on school buses, something industry groups say is unnecessary and is more than [...]