Education and Schools on Townhall

• Is Thinking Obsolete? Wed May 1
  Thomas Sowell
  While it is not possible to answer all the e-mails and letters from readers, many are thought-provoking, whether those thoughts are positive or negative. ... more
• A Homophobic Nightmare Tue Apr 30
  Michael Brown
  I had a disturbing dream last night. I guess you could call it a homophobic nightmare. The fact is, wherever I turned in the dream, from McDonald’s to ESPN, charges of “homophobia” and “transphobia” were flying. ... more
• Disorderly Conduct Fri Apr 26
  Mike Adams
  Students and their parents need to be warned about the latest serious threat to liberty on America's college campuses. They have probably already heard of campus speech codes, anti-discrimination clauses, and sexual harassment tribunals. The latest threat takes the form of "disorderly conduct" hearings. Many readers are wondering what exactly constitutes disorderly conduct. The more appropriate question might be "what does not?" ... more
• Parents Call Textbook Anti-Semitic Wed Apr 24
  Todd Starnes
  The Jewish Federation of Nashville and a group of outraged parents are calling for a school district to pull a high school textbook they believe promotes bias against Israel. ... more
• The Education Blob's Revenge Wed Apr 24
  John Stossel
  I wrote recently how teachers unions, parent-teacher associations and school bureaucrats form an education "Blob" that makes it hard to improve schools. They also take revenge on those who work around the Blob. ... more
• Homework Promotes Anti-American View of World War Two Tue Apr 23
  Todd Starnes
  Bob and Sarah Fisher were checking their daughter’s homework last week when a social studies assignment caught their attention – it criticized the United States for dropping the atomic bomb during World War Two. ... more
• De Pasquale Dozen’s with Author and Columnist Mike Adams Mon Apr 22
  Lisa De Pasquale
  If you’re a regular Townhall reader, you’re familiar with Mike Adams’ columns. If you’re any other Townhall columnist (and competitive like me), always seeing him scattered among the “Top 10” most-read most-commented columns makes you want to finally give in and do a column on Mike Adams with the hopes of cracking the top 10. ... more
• More Radicals for Common Core: The Pro-Amnesty Contingent Thu Apr 18
  Mary Grabar
  My antennae go up whenever any education initiative is associated with radicals, like Bill Ayers. We still don’t know why Bill Ayers was at an education conference with Arne Duncan and a representative from Achieve, the well-connected, Washington-based non-profit organizing this effort to nationalize education. ... more
• The Campus Crusade for Crust Mon Apr 15
  Mike Adams
  Welcome back students! My name is Biff Latane and I am the campus director of Jesus Crew (or J. Cru for short) here at Denton State University (or DSU for short). Before I tell you more about J. Cru at DSU, I want to take a few minutes to apologize for an episode that occurred during our last meeting at the end of the last quarter. ... more
• Thinking Outside the Education Box Mon Apr 15
  Jedediah Bila
  I recently stumbled upon a Facebook post Sarah Palin had written while reflecting upon her daughter Willow's graduation from an academy that specializes in hair and skin. In it, she said the following. ... more
• Appalling: High School Teacher Assigns Students Essay on Why "Jews Are Evil” Sat Apr 13
  Daniel Doherty
• Of Lunatics and Asylums Fri Apr 12
  Mona Charen
  We tell ourselves, we parents of college-bound kids (not to mention ordinary citizens), that American campuses really aren't as bad as all that, that students can avoid the most tendentious indoctrinators and that the press tends to exaggerate. And then we read headlines like "Kathy Boudin Teaching at Columbia" and sharp reality once again punctures the comfortable cushion of denial. ... more
• Professor Calls Republicans Stupid & Racist Thu Apr 11
  Todd Starnes
  For two years the University of Southern California student had listened to the classroom ranting of liberal professors. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when Darry Sragow, his political science professor, launched into an anti-Republican tirade on the first day of class. ... more
• Superintendent’s Shocking Comment Reminds Us That School Choice is an Uphill Battle Wed Apr 10
  Kyle Olson
  As Wisconsin legislators debate expanding the state’s parental choice private school voucher program, Racine Unified Superintendent Dr. Ann Laing’s shocking comments from the last budget cycle remind us school choice is an uphill battle. ... more
• The Revolution Continues: Ron Paul Trademarks His Own Home School Curriculum Tue Apr 9
  Daniel Doherty
• State Grown Kids Always Fail Mon Apr 8
  Harry R. Jackson, Jr.
  Famed neurosurgeon surgeon, Dr. Ben Carson, looked like just another black academic failure in his pre and elementary school years. His writings show that he was so angry he would have stabbed a classmate, and so learning-disabled that even the greatest Special Ed teacher would not have been able to mainstream him. ... more
• What Has Happened to Liberal Education? Fri Apr 5
  Linda Chavez
  Liberal education once stood for something grand and good: the study of the arts, humanities and sciences with the aim of improving the mind through the acquisition of knowledge and the pursuit of truth. But some of America's most elite colleges and universities have all but abandoned this goal. ... more
• Student: Teachers Bully Me Because I’m Conservative Thu Apr 4
  Todd Starnes
  A Wisconsin school district has launched an investigation into accusations that teachers have bullied and harassed a politically active student. ... more
• School for Scandal Thu Apr 4
  Cal Thomas
  My first question after reading about seven teachers in an Atlanta, Ga., public school accused of altering standardized test scores to make it appear students performed better than they actually did was: How could they!? ... more
• Minority Student Needs Wed Apr 3
  Walter E. Williams
  The fundamental problem crippling low-income minority students is school behavioral disorder. Its visible manifestations are graffiti, broken and vandalized furniture, fights, sexual activity, drug use in the bathrooms and rowdy behavior. ... more
• Broken Schools Pose Transcendent Threat to America's Future Wed Apr 3
  Javier Ortiz
  During the 2012 Republican National Convention, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice addressed an issue that has been widely absent from any recent and serious conversation in American politics, ominously warning that the education crisis is “a threat to the very fabric of who we are.” ... more
• The Corrupting Influence of Federal Dollars Wed Apr 3
  Bob Barr
  A few years ago, Dr. Beverly L. Hall was the well-respected Superintendent of the Atlanta Public School system. In fact, in 2009 she was recognized as “Superintendent of the Year” by the American Association of School Administrators, and was subsequently invited to the White House by the U.S. Secretary of Education. Hall’s job was not an easy one, as she was responsible for overseeing the educational development of more than 50,000 school children in a largely underprivileged school district. ... more
• Public School Bans Cub Scout Pack Tue Apr 2
  Todd Starnes
  A federal civil rights complaint has been filed against the Salt Lake City School Board after a principal booted a Cub Scout pack from an elementary school. ... more
• Dissident Prof Dispatch: Common Core Teaching, Demonstrating a Crucifixion Mon Apr 1
  Mary Grabar
  First we have a college student ordered to stomp on a piece of paper with the word Jesus written on it. But on Holy Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education sent out this video from the Teaching Channel with a seventh-grader face-down on a table in the front of the class waving his arms and legs to illustrate a crucifixion. This video, like the other ones this non-profit produces, is intended to show teachers exciting ways to incorporate Common Core, the federal education program of the Obama administration. ... more
• University Compares Pro-Life Students to White Supremacists Mon Apr 1
  Todd Starnes
  The Student Government Association at Johns Hopkins University compared pro-life students to white supremacists and denied them official club status at the school. ... more

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