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The 2012 Brown Center Report on American Education
The 2012 Brown Center Report on American Education distills the results of studies to examine the state of education in the United States. In particular, the report focuses on education… Read more
Meet the ObamaCare Mandate Committee
Scott Gottlieb – Think the contraception decision was bad? Wait until bureaucrats start telling your insurer which cancer screenings to cover. Offended by President Obama’s decision to force health insurers… Read more
How not to respond to a testing scandal
By Jay Mathews – Hosanna Mahaley, state superintendent for education in the District of Columbia, said last week city officials are “committed to restoring and improving confidence” in standardized test… Read more
Study suggests U.S. schools are not falling behind rest of the world
By Greg Toppo – The idea that U.S. public schools are falling behind the rest of the world is widely accepted, but a new analysis of international data suggests that… Read more
Gore’s global-warming agenda rising again?
Republican senator seeks knock-out punch before it’s too late After the “Climategate” scandal – revealing data manipulation and fraud by top global warming proponents – many climate change skeptics trumpeted… Read more
Are public schools unfairly blamed for America’s economic woes?
By Mark Naison – After the publication of my first book, in 1983, I went on a lecture tour that took me to Buffalo, Youngstown, Bridgeport, Newark, Detroit, Trenton, Philadelphia,… Read more
Education Department deploys ‘mystery shoppers’ to check for fraud
$40,000 laid out in student-aid operation The Department of Education has dispatched “mystery shoppers” posing as prospective students to various colleges and universities across the country — an anti-fraud initiative… Read more
School OK with zombies, but not pro-life posters
Students say their free speech is censored A district in Missouri has decided to allow images of zombies on its school walls but not posters promoting the Pro-Life Day of… Read more
Surveilling homeschoolers, the 2nd try …
The latest on bill collecting information on students For the second time in just months, an attempt to assemble information such as names and addresses on all homeschool students in… Read more
Syrian opposition seeks to wipe the Assad name off the map — via Google
Among the first acts of victorious revolutionaries is to tear down signs bearing the names of the regimes they toppled. In Syria, the opposition is not waiting for President Bashar… Read more
