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.
Un-Common, Not Core
10.01.14
I became a math teacher by a circuitous route. My degree is in engineering. I spent five and a half years refurbishing nuclear submarines, and then I quit work to bear, rear, and eventually homeschool our three children.
Do Librarians Really Care About Book-Banning?
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.04.14
Self-righteous, dissembling librarians are seeking once again to foment “book-banning” hysteria through their annual dishonest Banned Books Week campaign (Sept. 21-27) sponsored by the self-righteous, dissembling, and politically partisan American Library Association (ALA). The ALA pursues its hysteria-fomenting goal chiefly...
Common Core’s Growing Unpopularity
08.15.14
The highly acclaimed school standards called Common Core are becoming so unpopular that they may soon be politically untouchable...
Pro-Life Political Scientist Claims $16 Trillion in Federal Revenue Has Been Lost Due to Abortions
08.05.14
A pro-life political scientist published research finding that as much as $16 trillion in federal revenue has been lost due to on-demand abortions in America.
IFI Special Event In Bensenville on August 25th
07.06.14
On Monday evening, August 25th, the Illinois Family Institute will be hosting a special event at Grace Gospel Fellowship in Bensenville. Our speaker is historian and Pastor Dan Fisher. Please join us as Pastor Dan brings to life our Christian...
Illinois Senate Passes Another Bullying Bill
By David E. Smith   |   05.23.14
How did they vote? This morning, the Illinois Senate voted 37 to 18 to pass HB 5707, a completely unnecessary proposal sponsored by State Representative Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) and State Senator Heather Steans (D-Chicago).  This legislation constitutes nothing more than...
When Boys Must Be Girls, and Vice Versa
By Robert Knight   |   05.22.14
If you ever start hoping that the Left will leave the rest of us alone, move on, because that’s not going to happen. At the heart of the Founders’ vision for America was the idea of decentralized power, whereby people...
Racist Lecturer Delivers Anti-Republican Rant at Public University
04.24.14
A guest lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater, a public school, began class Tuesday with a racist, anti-Republican rant that went on for more than ten minutes.
Day of Silence: The Rest of the Story
04.05.14
Q. Why should parents be concerned about the so-called Day of Silence? A. This event was started first by college students, then picked up as a national activist effort by an adult homosexual advocacy group, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). The goal is to promote homosexuality to all students in a given school, under the aegis of fighting discrimination. It has grown enormously, unfortunately, as the support for the 'gay' agenda has been embraced by schools and impressionable students nationwide.
Legislation to Delay Common Core — Hearing This Wednesday
By David E. Smith   |   03.24.14
This Wednesday, State Representative Dwight Kay (R-Glen Carbon) will be presenting HR 543 before the House Elementary & Secondary Education Committee.  This resolution will urge the Illinois State Board of Education to delay the implementation of Common Core Standards until...
Legislator Accuses SPLC of Bribing Teachers to Teach Anti-Christian Curriculum
03.19.14
A state legislator in Hawaii has filed an ethics complaint with the State Department of Education alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center is bribing elementary teachers to take an SPLC course called Teaching Tolerance. State Representative Bob McDermott also charges that the SPLC course is biased against Christians and teaches leftist ideas.
Dumbed-Down Common Core
03.12.14
Big name Republicans and putative conservatives signing onto the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms in the belief that they will raise standards in public schools may want to entertain the possibility that they will actually lower them.
National Takeover of School Curriculum
02.27.14
Many people said Ho-Hum when Barack Obama threatened to change any law with his pen or phone, and even used that power to personally alter Obamacare and the welfare law, and to “legislate” the Dream Act that Congress refused to pass. But Americans are rising up by the tens of thousands to stop Common Core...
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