Last year’s column “Dishonest Educators” (1/9/2013) reported on the largest school cheating scandal in U.S. history. In more than three-quarters …
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Maine Gov. Paul LePage recently spoke out against the increasingly unpopular federal education standards set forth in the Common Core …
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Historically, Democrats have been politically vulnerable on military issues. The recent missteps President Barack Obama has made in dealing with …
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Students at several Jefferson County, Colorado, high schools walked out to protest the school board’s recently proposed curriculum review committee …
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We have heard much about the tragic events in Ferguson, Mo., during which a young man lost his life, a …
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My question may sound socialistic to some of my fellow conservatives; nonetheless it is a question that must be addressed. …
Read More »Howard Fuller Has the Answer for Ferguson
Eight days before 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, he received his high school diploma from …
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We could sit around for days, weeks, months…coming up with ideas on how to “ensure that poor and minority students …
Read More »Arne Duncan Pays Lip Service to Teacher Tenure Reform
It’s hard to find truer words than those of Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu. In his …
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