Education on Townhall

• Madonna sells abstract painting to fund girls' education Wed Apr 3
  Reuters News
• A New Birth of Education Freedom Mon Apr 1
  Star Parker
  As the nation has focused on the Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, news from the state of Indiana could prove far more important regarding the nation’s future. ... more
• Eagle Scouts: We’re Being Bullied by Gay Rights Activists Wed Mar 27
  Todd Starnes
  A coalition of Eagle Scouts, Scoutmasters, and parents have launched a new organization vowing to keep sex and politics out of the Boy Scouts of America. ... more
• Are Classes Too Sexy for Fourth Grade Students? Wed Mar 27
  Marybeth Hicks
  In this week’s email, a question comes from parents who don’t want their fourth grader to take the school district’s sex ed class. ... more
• School Bans the Word ‘Easter’ Tue Mar 26
  Todd Starnes
  Boys and girls at an Alabama elementary school will still get to hunt for eggs – but they can’t call them ‘Easter Eggs’ have the principal banished the word for the sake of religious diversity. ... more
• War on Easter? Schools, Cities Planning Another Round of ‘Spring Egg Hunts’ Thu Mar 21
  Kyle Olson
  In our increasingly politically-correct society, Christmas isn’t the only holiday too hot to handle for school districts. Easter, another holiday rooted in Christian faith, is now being marginalized by governmental entities. ... more
• Gifted Hands Tue Mar 19
  Thomas Sowell
  At one time young Ben Carson had the lowest grades in his middle school class, and was the butt of teasing by his white classmates. Worse yet, he himself believed that he was just not smart enough to do the work. ... more
• Budget deadlock squeezes military members seeking education Sat Mar 16
  Reuters News
• Union Activist Jumps the Shark by Suggesting ‘Jaywalk for Education Justice’ Campaign Fri Mar 15
  Kyle Olson
  American Federation of Teachers President Rhonda “Randi” Weingarten’s arrest last week for blocking an entrance to a public meeting was seen as a bold move by those seeking to protect the status quo in education. ... more
• From Affirmative Action to Diversity Thu Mar 14
  Victor Davis Hanson
  Sometime in the new millennium, "global warming" evolved into "climate change." Amid growing controversies over the planet's past temperatures, Al Gore and other activists understood that human-induced "climate change" could better explain almost any weather extremity -- droughts or floods, too much heat or cold, hurricanes and tornadoes. ... more
• Parents Let Teens do Stupid Things Wed Mar 13
  Marybeth Hicks
  Mom-blogger Ursula Hennessey, writing last week at OnTheCulture.com, questioned the lax supervision provided by too many parents of teens. ... more
• Making the Dream Come True: More Equality Opportunity Programs? Part 2 Tue Mar 12
  Harry R. Jackson, Jr.
  The question for our generation is: have we reached the limits of what changing the law can actually do to correct such inequalities? ... more
• Wisconsin Education Officials Want Students to Wear ‘White Privilege’ Wristbands Tue Mar 12
  Kyle Olson
  The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction runs several programs that heavily emphasize racial issues in public schools, EAGnews.org has been finding. ... more
• Semi-Automatic Pastry Warrants Two-Day Suspension for 7 Year Old Sun Mar 10
  Daniel J. Mitchell
  Here’s the real kicker: The supposed adults who run the school - and are in charge of educating children- decided that an artfully chewed pastry was “an inappropriate gesture.” ... more
• A Lesson in Education Hyperbole Sat Mar 9
  Ed Feulner
  Dire predictions about the fate of certain government programs were hardly in short supply recently, as sequester-related budget cuts loomed. So it was hardly a surprise when Education Secretary Arne Duncan got in on the act. ... more
• U.S. film highlights link between girls' education and poverty Fri Mar 8
  Reuters News
• Words Are Power Fri Mar 8
  Suzanne Fields
  Everyone's looking for a quick fix in education -- President Obama most of all. "Let's make sure none of our children start out the race of life already a step behind," he says ... more
• Rotten to the Core: The Feds' Invasive Student Tracking Database Fri Mar 8
  Michelle Malkin
  While many Americans worry about government drones in the sky spying on our private lives, Washington meddlers are already on the ground and in our schools gathering intimate data on children and families. ... more
• News Corp bids for education market with new classroom tablet Wed Mar 6
  Reuters News
• Obama Admin Wants to Deport Christian Homeschoolers Tue Mar 5
  Todd Starnes
  The Romeike family fled their German homeland in 2008 seeking political asylum in the United States – where they hoped to home school their children. Instead, the Obama administration wants the evangelical Christian family deported. ... more
• Response to the Schlicter Piece Tue Mar 5
  Jack Kerwick
  Schlicter offers an essentially two prong attack against academia. The first we can call “the tick argument.” Academia, he says, is like “a liberal tick” in that it divests society of its “blood” while producing nothing in return. ... more
• It’s a Boy…Err...Girl…Err…to Hell With It, Who Knows Sat Mar 2
  Steve Deace
  Journey back with me, if you will, to a simpler time. To a dark and ominous period known as American history up until now. ... more
• Teacher Tells Students to Call 9-11 Hijackers “Freedom Fighters” Wed Feb 27
  Todd Starnes
  An Advanced Placement World Geography teacher at a Texas high school who encouraged students to dress in Islamic clothing also instructed them to refer to the 9-11 hijackers not as terrorists – but as “freedom fighters,” according to students who were in the class. ... more
• Analysis: Mexico's much-needed education reform faces hurdles Tue Feb 26
  Reuters News
• The Islamification of Texas Tue Feb 26
  Todd Starnes
  Imagine browsing Facebook one day and discovered a photograph of your 14-year-old daughter wearing a burqa – at school. ... more
• Pre-K Won't Help Kids Tue Feb 26
  Phyllis Schlafly
  President Obama ended his State of the Union speech on a warm and fuzzy note by calling for pre-K programs for almost all children. The best thing he could do for pre-kindergarten children is to make sure he doesn't hang trillions of dollars of debt around their necks, but that isn't the route he is taking. ... more

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