What's Wrong with the U.S. Education System? - Parental Neglect!

03-15-2010 • GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com

If the parent is not participating, the kids stand little chance. Even 10:1 student to teacher ratios, kids will fail without parental concern.

TEXAS BOARD OF EDUCATION VOTED TO REVISE AMERICAN HISTORY TO BE TAUGHT TO STUDENTS

03/12/2010 • godlikeproductions.com

AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas State Board of Education agreed to new social studies standards on Friday after the far-right faction wielded its power to shape the lessons that will be taught to millions of students on American history, the U.S. free ente

Congress, Ariz. School District Sues Taxpayers To Stop Questions (HUH!?!)

03-12-2010 • goldwater institute

A handful of taxpayers...are being targeted... in a lawsuit that asks a judge to declare they have no right to request public records, sue the district, or complain to outside agencies.

Lesbian teen in prom flap sues, returns to school

03-11-2010 • AP

Constance McMillen didn't believe her Mississippi school district would really call off her senior prom rather than allow her to show up with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo. A day after the Itawamba County school board did just that, the 18-year-o

U.S. Dept. of Education buying shotguns. Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

03-10-2010 • www.fbo.gov

Can anyone explain why, if guns are baaaaaaaad,...why the federal teacher thugs would need them?

Kindergärtner suspended for making gun with hand

03-08-2010 • Grand Rapids Press (h/t Free Talk Live)

To the little boy's mother, it was just a 6-year-old boy playing around. But when the kindergarten student curled his fist into the shape of a gun and pointed it at another student, school officials said it was no laughing matter. They suspended Maso

Public-School Excuse No. 1 – Give Us More Money!

02-28-2010 • Joel Turtel, author

Giving billions of dollars to public schools is like throwing money down a sewer. Money is not the problem. Government control of the schools is the problem.

Detroit High Schools Teach How To Work at Walmart

2/12/10 • GOOD Is

Four Detroit public high schools have decided classroom time should be used to train 60 students to work at Walmart. A new partnership gives participants 11 weeks of job-readiness training during the day and a Walmart job after school. Students earn

The Shocking Truth About Public Schools

02/28/2010 • godlikeproductions.com

Please Research the following evil men.. John D Rockefeller John Dewey JP Morgan Andrew Carnegie You must understand that school is simply a social-engineering center that wants to dictate the beliefs of young children. Creativity must be halt

School used webcams to spy on students

02-19-2010 • AP

A school district used the webcams in school-issued laptops to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations. School District officials said the laptops "contain a security feature intended to track

Public Schools, Public Prisons

07-23-2009 • Joel Turtel

Why public schools are education prisons for our children

Obama to Seek Sweeping Change in ‘No Child’ Law

01-31-2010 • NY Times

Obama is proposing a sweeping overhaul of President Bush’s signature education law, No Child Left Behind, and will call for broad changes in how schools are judged to be succeeding or failing, as well as for the elimination of the law’s 2014 deadline

Turning children into Orwellian eco-spies

12-15-2009 • Spiked

There is a long and sordid tradition of trying to socialise children by scaring them. The aim of such socialisation-through-fear is twofold: firstly, to get children to conform to the scaremongers’ values; secondly, to use children to influence, or a

Holocaust Denier Multiculturalism Teacher in Progressive Las Vegas High School: Parents Outraged

12-18-2009 • Ginn

According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, Jewish students at a progressive High School Academy have been taunted and sent a threatening text message after a teacher, in class, denied the Holocaust.

Teacher who took students to Hooters is put on leave

12-17-2009 • Arizona Republic

A Paradise Valley High School music teacher whose students performed at one of President's Barack Obama inauguration events has been put on administrative leave after taking 40 students to eat at a Hooters in downtown Phoenix.

School goes ballistic when 2nd-grader draws Jesus

12-17-2009 • World Net Daily

Boy, 8, said to gets psych evaluation after sketch of Christ on cross called 'violent'

Texas parents, school tangle over boy's long locks

12-17-2009 • AP

Taylor's locks , long on the front and sides, covering his earlobes and shirt collar , violate the school district's dress code. He has been punished with in-school suspension since late last month. His parents say the boy plans to eventually cut

Arizona School Superintendent Has SETI Space Alien Reseach Experts Up in Arms

12-07-2009 • Ginn

A story out of Arizona has SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) experts “up in arms” over a school district superintendent’s comments. The story: a former worker fired after the school discovered he’d been running SETI’s Home program on th

Twelve-Yr-old Texas Girl Arrested for Making Bomb Threat at School

12-05-2009 • Ginn

Police haul in a 12-year-old girl questioning her for 4 hours--before calling her mom. It all started when 3 other girls said they saw the girl write a bomb threat on the restroom wall.

Groups sue to reverse changes in state policy

11-24-2009 • Mary Jo Pitzl

Groups representing Arizona teachers, cities and towns went to the state Supreme Court on Monday, arguing that the Legislature stretched a budget-cutting session to also ax unrelated policies. In separate lawsuits, the Arizona Education Associatio

New law on how teachers contract with districts

11-24-2009 • Alex Bloom

The Arizona Legislature made sweeping changes to state teacher contracts earlier this year, removing seniority, salary and contract guarantees. Changes under House Bill 2011 mean that school districts will be prohibited from using tenure or senior

Ten-year-old refuses to recite pledge until gays allowed to marry

11-17-2009 • Rawstory

"I eventually, very solemnly -- with a little bit of malice in my voice -- said, 'Mam, with all due respect, you can go jump off a bridge," Will explained. Seated next to the boy, his father covered his face, smiling.

Texas Law: Corporal Punishment For Elementary Kids Okay as Long as it Doesn’t Cause Death

11-14-2009 • Ginn

As a former teacher--and rowdy kid--capital punishment works. We never got close to worrying about whether it "caused death" or not, though.

Universities preferentially taking out of state students for the money

11-13-2009 • Washington Post

Many of the nation's top public universities accepted nonresident students in greater numbers this year, hoping to increase -- or at least sustain -- a pool of incoming freshmen who pay two or three times the tuition charged to locals. At some school

1954 8th Grade Civics Test: Would You Pass?

11-08-2009 • Mondo Frazier

Who's smarter than a 1954 8th-grader? This sample civics test from 1954 illustrates how far and low our education system has fallen. How well would you do?

Budget Loses at Polls Worry Valley Schools

11-06-2009 • The Arizona Republic

Support for bond measures dipped this year in which valley voters supported 20 out of 36 school district bond and budget override ballot measures. As a result, valley school districts are worried.