Many view America’s education as a failure, but in at least one important way, it’s been a success — a success in dumbing down the nation so that we fall easy prey to charlatans, hustlers and quacks. You say, “Williams, that’s insulting! Explain yourself.” OK, let’s start with a question or two. Are you for […] Continue reading → 
A final lecture for the 2013-2014 school year was delivered yesterday by a California state judge, and it was a tough one: Teacher tenure, and other state laws that provide job protections to “grossly ineffective” instructors, deprive students of their right to a decent education. It’s a lesson that should have been clear to California’s […] Continue reading → 
A middle school history teacher in small-town southeastern Michigan has been placed on paid administrative leave because he informed students that white entertainers used to paint their faces black to imitate black people and showed kids a video about it. The teacher is Alan Barron, reports the Monroe News. The 59-year-old teacher has taught in the […] Continue reading → 
A Washington state mom vowed to take legal action after she said her child was forced to “pay” to use the bathroom in her third-grade class. Merchon Ortega told Fox News’ Andrea Tantaros that her daughter had an accident after a teacher denied her a bathroom break. “She chose not to pay to use the […] Continue reading → 
TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) — An Ohio teacher is caught on camera grabbing a student in an apparent fit of anger. The student’s parents are enraged and as Tim Miller reports, now they want the teacher fired. Anthony and Autumn Nelson are still stunned by what happened to their 6-year old son Ian last Wednesday. In a […] Continue reading → 
Jeff Crouere Liberals are always preaching the values of diversity and inclusion. Regrettably, such platitudes are just rhetoric, because upon closer examination liberals hate diversity. As evidence, just examine some recent and disturbing activities on the campus of Rutgers University. After former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice was invited to give […] Continue reading → 
It is not easy to demonize people who have spent hundreds of millions of dollars of their own money to help educate poor children. But some members of the education establishment are taking a shot at it. The Walton Family Foundation — created by the people who created Walmart — has given more than $300 […] Continue reading → 
Of all the cynical frauds of the Obama administration, few are so despicable as sacrificing the education of poor and minority children to the interests of the teachers’ unions. Attorney General Eric Holder’s attempt to suppress the spread of charter schools in Louisiana was just one of the signs of that cynicism. His nationwide threats […] Continue reading → 
Maybe this is part of the Common Core curriculum?? Aldine ISD police: Middle school teacher gives student lap dance, says ‘I love you baby’ Prosecutors in Houston, Texas charged a middle school teacher because she gave a full-on lap dance to a boy for his birthday in front of an entire class of no-doubt impressed […] Continue reading → 
Agency that lists military veterans as number one terror threat setting up school curriculum The Department of Homeland Security is partnering with a Washington state school district to recruit future employees through a new high school curriculum. An employment application posted by Evergreen Public Schools this weekend requests a certified “Homeland Security Instructor” to steer […] Continue reading → 
Dave Jolly, From the time our daughters were born, we taught them to pray before eating every meal. It didn’t matter if we were in public or anywhere, we prayed and thanked God for the food. Many Christian families I know do the same thing. Now what would you do as a parent if your […] Continue reading → 
B. Christopher Agee One teacher in Australia recently exhibited behavior so crass that his comments have sparked internationally condemnation. Shortly after a 16-year-old student took his own life, the educator took to Facebook to posthumously attack the deceased based on his alleged behavior in school. “You were a moody, disrespectful little brat in and away […] Continue reading → 
A second grader’s answers to a Common Core-aligned math worksheet were marked as incorrect because they weren’t “friendly” enough… even though they were the right answers. A screenshot of the worksheet was posted to Twitter. The teacher wrote that even though the questions — addition and subtraction problems — were solved correctly, the student used the wrong […] Continue reading → 
Have you had enough of the testing tyranny? Join the club. To be clear: I’m not against all standardized academic tests. My kids excel on tests. The problem is that there are too damned many of these top-down assessments, measuring who knows what, using our children as guinea pigs and cash cows. College-bound students in […] Continue reading →