Tag Archives: Noah Webster

Whom Should We Distrust: Parents or the Government?

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

This past week, I’ve been dealing with a lot of media being interviewed by publications like The Washington Post, The Detroit Free Press, a CBS TV affiliate, an ABC radio affiliate, etc.

Posted in Education, Faith, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty | Tagged Catherine J. Ross, children, education, Elizabeth Bartholet, Founding Fathers, government, James Madison, John Hancock, Kimberly A. Yuracko, Noah Webster, Parents, Patrick Henry, public schools, Robert Reich, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Risley, Whom Should We Distrust: Parents or the Government? | Comments Off

Socialists Used Public Schools to Destroy Literacy in America

Posted on March 24, 2021 by David E Smith

Widespread illiteracy and the ignorance it produces represent an existential threat to the United States today. But it wasn’t always this way.

And it can be fixed.

Fortunately, neither the cause of this crisis nor the solution to it is a mystery—at least to anyone who has studied the issue.

Posted in Education | Tagged Arthur Gates, Blue Back Speller, Boston Globe, Boston Review, Common Core, Cultural Marxism, Du Pont de Nemours, dyslexia, Federalist Papers, Horace Mann, Joel Perlmann, John Dewey, Kenneth Lockridge, literacy, National Assessment of Educational Progress, New England Primer, Noah Webster, Old Deluder Satan Act, phonics, Rudolf Flesch, Samuel Blumenfeld, socialist, Stanislas Dehaene, State Education Agency, The New Illiterates, Thomas Gallaudet, Why Johnny Can’t Read, William Gray | Comments Off

Post-Christian America Needs Radical Help STAT

Posted on February 5, 2018 by David E Smith

America’s founders believed in God and His word, and predicated our founding documents on those immutable, biblical principles.

Though Leftists love to spout revisionist nonsense about many of the Founders being deists or worse, those accusations don’t hold water when faced with the weight of those early patriots’ own words and actions.

Thomas Jefferson, often upheld as vying for the least religious spot amongst the Founders, wrote:

I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.¹

And Jefferson’s worship habits speak even louder:

Many people are surprised to learn that

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Posted in Faith | Tagged Atheism, Barna Group, Eric Metaxas, Generation Z, George Washington, John Stonestreet, Noah Webster, Thomas Jefferson, Worldview Conference | Comments Off

Are Trigger Warnings Needed for Invocations?

Posted on December 24, 2016 by David E Smith

In today’s “politically correct” America, it is evidently a possible offense to quote a former president and discuss the role of Christianity in the founding of the nation.

The State Journal-Register’s political reporter Bernard Schoenburg recently reported on an invocation given at a recent Sangamon County Board meeting in his column titled “Prayer at county board raises church-state question.” The prayer, delivered by board member Mike Sullivan is, according to Schoenburg “getting some attention and has come under some criticism.”

Sullivan’s prayer began:

“Lord in heaven, during this Christmas season as we celebrate the birth of your son,

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Posted in Faith, Illinois Politics, Media Watch | Tagged Andy Van Meter, Bernard Schoenburg, John Adams, Mike Sullivan, Noah Webster, religious elitism, Tony DelGiorno | Comments Off

Common Core: the Trojan Horse for Federalized Education Control

Posted on April 1, 2016 by David E Smith

Education in America was originally the province of parents and churches. "Homeschooling" was the norm from colonial times through the mid-1800's, and a classic education was the model.

Posted in Education, Federal | Tagged Abington Township School District v. Schempp, Common Core, ESEA, Jimmy Carter, John Dewey, National Education Association, Noah Webster | Comments Off