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American K-12 Science Education Gone Bad

American K-12 Science Education Gone Bad

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ I don’t often write an article about someone else’s article but Shepard Barbash’s deeply researched piece “Science betrayed” deserves a wide readership. His subtitle says it all: “The propaganda infecting K–12 science curricula, especially on the environment, won’t go away.” Barbash first looks at the history, then where we are today. The entrenchment of the great green…

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Cartoons Are The Left’s New Weapon To Target Your Kids

Cartoons Are The Left’s New Weapon To Target Your Kids

By Douglas Blair ~ Parents need to be aware of what their children are watching. Because cartoons aren’t just harmless fun anymore, they’re weapons. (Photo: Mayte Torres/Getty Images) It’s an open secret that the left dominates the media landscape. It’s impossible to go a day without some actor in the Hollywood Hills tweeting how conservatives are ruining the country, or a journalist penning a…

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I’m A Former Teacher. Here’s How Your Children Are Getting Indoctrinated By Leftist Ideology.

I’m A Former Teacher. Here’s How Your Children Are Getting Indoctrinated By Leftist Ideology.

By Douglas Blair ~

The left uses a combination of propaganda and suppression to push kids into the ensnaring grip of socialism and anti-patriotism. (Photo: skynesher/Getty Images)

Your children are being indoctrinated. The education system designed to teach them how to think critically has been weaponized by the radical left to push an anti-American agenda.

As someone who has worked in education…

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Teachers Union Wants Climate Based Social Revolution Taught In English Classes

Teachers Union Wants Climate Based Social Revolution Taught In English Classes

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~

I am not making this up. The National Federation of Teachers is promoting the teaching of Action Now! climate radicalism in America’s English classes. They basically claim that climate change hysteria should be part of our culture and it requires a social revolution. Apparently English classes are the proper place to train social revolutionaries.

No wonder the children…

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Higher Education Is Failing America

Higher Education Is Failing America

By Dr. Jay Lehr ~

Richard Vedder is such a giant in education and economics that he was able to persuade 28 colleagues to write detailed pre-published comments about his new book RESTORING THE PROMISE which catalogues the failure of higher education in America. The Carnegie Commission on Education (year) and the books written by former Princeton President William Bowen and former Yale President…

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New Jersey Parents To Rally Against LGBT Education Law

New Jersey Parents To Rally Against LGBT Education Law

By Rachel del Guidice ~

A rally this weekend will give New Jersey parents an opportunity to oppose a new state law requiring public schools to teach children about the “political, economic, and social contributions” of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals.

The new law also requires schools to stress such contributions made by disabled persons, but it’s the LGBT education component…

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Mid-Day Digest

Sep. 17, 2018

THE FOUNDATION

“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” —George Washington (1795)

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IN TODAY’S EDITION

Democrats launch a despicable and cynical attack on Kavanaugh.

Ten years later, reviewing the financial crisis and its roots in Democrat policy.

It’s time to hold America’s “educators” to account.

If Dems prevail in…

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Bad Math: NYT Blames Stereotypes, Tradition For Girls Trailing Boys In Rich Districts

Bad Math: NYT Blames Stereotypes, Tradition For Girls Trailing Boys In Rich Districts

By Clay Waters ~

The New York Times dubiously blamed girlish stereotypes and traditionalism in affluent districts for girls’ (relative) lack of representation among high-achievers in math in “Where Boys Outperform Girls in Math: Rich, White and Suburban Districts,” featured prominently in the news section of Sunday’s paper. As scholar and author Christine Sommersnoted, “This New York Times…

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