First, we were told what to say and what we could not say – unless we “wanted to get in trouble.” Anything against the regime and system, or the government’s policies would have been punishable:...

Since October 17, the Chicago Teachers Union has banished 361,000 students from their classrooms by going on strike to demand a $100,000 average salary for its members. The union insisted that...

Dr. Sarah Condors explores the disturbing ways Bernie Sanders has managed to make socialism acceptable in America today.

The saga of the 1619 Project continues to amaze with its convoluted attempts to equate everything about America with slavery… Essay #7 – Municipal Bonds – by Tiya Miles (page 40) As the...

A recent article posted in EdWeek.org brings to light some glaring problems with the definition of “civics” in today’s education system. The article, entitled, What Students...

(From Editor: What follows is a continuation of contributor Tom Stark’s research into The 1619 Project, aka revisionist American history being strongly pushed by the New York Times. Here...

Being a writer means never knowing what you might be remembered for. Or how badly. That poem that Emma Lazarus became famous for was forgotten, remembered again, and has been misused, quoted out...

Essay #3 – “Capitalism” by Matthew Desmond (pages 30–40) “In the United States, the richest 1 percent of Americans own 40 percent of the country’s wealth, while a larger share of working-age...

Four of the 2020 Democrats fighting to claim the White House have endorsed banning private health insurance and forcing everyone into a national socialist medical system overseen by the...

Madeline Will is writing a new Teaching Now blog for Edweek Teacher, described with much enthusiasm as the “1619 Project”. It is a creation of the New York Times Magazine – which proffers that...

A mural of Washington depicted as a slave owner and murderer by a communist in a San Fransisco high school is being fought over by two lefty sides. One says take it down, one says keep it up....

There is a story I have always enjoyed and there have been variations of it. It is one that comes to mind whenever I hear pundits from various fields share their wisdom with us. There was a very...

On the 5th of May, the American Freedom Alliance convened a conference on leftist radicalism. Before David Horowitz stepped up to the podium to discuss the threat of leftist extremism, Dr. Karen...

(From author: In Part 1, I examined the teaching of U.S. history and the pitfalls in an objective viewpoint in which to see the events of our past clearly. In Part 2, I will address the teaching...

Edweek.org began a special project,  Citizen Z, last fall with an analysis of how History and Civics are taught in public schools. They questioned whether the discord between political views in...

The Declaration of Independence was written to address the grievances of the Colonies against the King of England.  Hopefully we have all read the “official” document in our American history...

Standardized testing is the engine of meritocracy. When the College Board standardized testing through the SAT, it introduced merit to an educational system where status was determined by family...

As a kid in school back in the forties I would have laughed at anyone suggesting I would ever be a teacher, let alone love school. The loving part was due to a fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Martha...