Public Education

“Perhaps it is time to augment the drive towards preschool with a similar focus on expectant mothers and babies 0 to 3 years old.”

“In her essay, Sayers said the disrepute into which logic has fallen is ‘entirely unjustified.’ But she offers two explanations for why it happened.”

“The Texas State Board of Education has approved streamlined science standards for grades K-12 in a move that placated both conservative and progressive constituencies concerned with the teaching of evolution in Texas public schools.” BPNews

“Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin recently signed a bill into law that authorizes public school boards to allow schools to offer elective Bible literacy courses and provides state guidance to help establish such classes”

“The schools shall require regular courses of instruction by the completion of the 12th grade in the history of the United States, in civics, in the Constitution of the United States … and making available, as an elective course of instruction, the history of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible,” reads the amended text.

“In honor of the seventh annual National School Choice Week, here are some facts you should know about school choice in America.”

“ ‘Proposed Bill Would Expand Parents’ Rights, but Critics Say It Goes Too Far’ … In the case of this story from Fort Worth, Texas… ‘critics’ think parents shouldn’t have the right to know what their children are doing at school.” NRO

“Kary Moss, executive director of [ACLU] of Michigan, denounced school vouchers as ‘a misguided idea that diverts taxpayer dollars into private and parochial schools and perverts the bedrock American value of separation of church and state.’”

Denver: “The hearing on Wednesday (Nov. 16) was the result of a suit filed by the American Humanist Association, a national organization of humanists, atheists and freethinkers.” RNS

Against technocracy: Greg Forster on reviving the fight for educational freedom