University Asks Students to Pick from Six Genders
08.03.15
By John Fund It’s hard to keep up with the Gods of Political Correctness. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and have been familiar with sexual-diversity issues from an early age. But just when I had mastered...
NEA Stands Against Religious Freedom
07.24.15
At their annual meeting this month in Florida, the nation's largest teachers' union voted on a policy to oppose religious freedom restoration acts - or RFRAs.
Christian Universities: Will They Obey God or Man?
By   |   07.20.15
It’s by design. As I, and others, have repeatedly warned, the establishment of so-called “gay marriage” as a newfangled federal “right,” and the free exercise of religion as guaranteed by the First Amendment simply cannot coexist in harmony. Things diametrically...
38 Ways College Students Enjoy ‘Left-wing Privilege’ On Campus
07.10.15
Written by Tal Fortgang Among the great ironies surrounding the state of academia is the continued insistence on hearing more and more “marginalized voices” and increasing “diversity” on campus, as if there is some kind of archaic conservative establishment making...
What the Gay-Marriage Ruling Means for Education
07.03.15
Like fascists, Communists, and boy-band producers, the American Left has always believed it could fine-tune human nature if it could only “get ’em while they’re young.” That’s why the Left works so hard to impose its will on schools and universities. As John Dewey, America’s high priest of educational progressivism, explained in 1897, the student must “emerge from his original narrowness” in order “to conceive of himself” as a cog in the larger social order.
Things That Make You Say, “Huh?”
By Micah Clark   |   06.17.15
According to a recent study in the American Public Health Journal, kids who identify as “LGBTQ” are not only getting pregnant, even though they claim to identify with sexual behaviors which are non-procreative same-sex interactions, they are getting pregnant at...
10 Reasons for Christians to Boycott the “Day of Silence”
04.14.15
On a day when the truth is suppressed and sin exalted, why let our children participate?
Comprehensive Sex-Ed: You’re Teaching My Child, What?!!
03.16.15
I suspect that many of you have listened in horror and dismay, as your child shared with you what they were being taught or exposed to in their public school. With the ever increasing depravity that is constantly being hurled at Christians, and our ever increasing marginalization, two things are clear. First, We as God's people have become paralysed, and second...
Library Internet Filter Bill
By David E. Smith   |   03.05.15
State Representative Peter Breen (R-Lombard) recently introduced HB 2689, also known as the Internet Screening in Public Libraries Act. This common sense legislation would help protect children and families from obscene and illegal material on the Internet and prevent public...
H.R. 1153 Offers Asylum for Homeschoolers
03.04.15
Amid the immigration debate in Washington, D.C., legislation is pending that will make it possible for families who are treated harshly over homeschooling to find refuge in the United States. The legislation was developed by HSLDA along with supportive members of Congress in the wake of the Romeike family’s asylum case.
Welcome to TotCare: Obama’s preschool takeover
12.11.14
The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round, just like the endless cycles of big, bad government programs to federalize preschool and daycare.
A Failing Grade for Explicit Sex Education [VIDEO]
By Monte Larrick   |   12.09.14
Its time to raise the standards for sex education in Illinois. Recently, parents of 5th grade students at a West Side Chicago Public School (CPS) magnet school, were stunned and repelled by the binder of sex ed material that they...
Analysis: Top 5 Reasons Common Core Has Been a Disaster
12.05.14
Implementation of the Common Core State Standards Initiative has not gone well, supporters and critics alike now agree. Understanding why the education reform has been so rocky could aid future policy initiatives.
High School Rule-makers Endanger Female Athletes
By   |   12.01.14
The inmates are running the asylum in Indy. Until recently I had not heard of the National Federation of State High School Associations, or NFHS. This Indianapolis-based organization has, since 1920, developed and published playing rules for high-school sports in...
Common Core: Beyond Rote
10.01.14
As we’ve noted before, when proponents of the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms try to make the case for the program, they often end up giving material to its opponents.
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