Kevin Jennings, the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), has been nominated by President Obama to the Education Department. As Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Department of Education’s Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools, Jennings would hold sway over a host of federal programs directing anti-bullying programs – programs that [...]

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 (6-25-09) that Arizona school officials violated a 13-year-old eighth grade girl’s constitutional rights when she was strip searched by a school nurse. Savana Redding, now 19, was a student at Safford Middle School when the incident occurred. Vice Principal Kerry Wilson suspected that Redding was concealing  prescription-strength ibuprofen in her [...]

It is not with any pleasure that I address this issue. I know there are many fine teachers in the public schools, so I am not painting everyone with the same brush, but sexual abuse of students by teachers is something that families need to take seriously. After examining records in all 50 states and [...]

I don’t know how many times I have heard someone I’m encouraging to homeschool say something like, “I could never teach Algebra.” Substitute any subject, such as chemistry, history, physics, etc. in place of Algebra. The implication being that we need “trained professionals” to teach these subjects to our children. The assumption is that public [...]

They say that if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will quickly jump out, but if you put a frog in a pan of cool water and heat it ever so slowly until it starts boiling, the frog will cook to death before he even realizes what has happened to [...]