Education

Public schools already have too much power and a lack of accountability. Bush's decision to increase the federal government's role has made matters worse: > Since 2001, when the No Child Left Behind Act tied federal school funding to performance on annual tests for students in

This article is especially poignant for Eric Scheske, who attended his sixth-grade son's "graduation" last night from Catholic parochial school. For over fifty years, the school offered K-8 education, but it had to drop grades 7 and 8 due to lack of students and funding. Link

Some different fare: Britain's whole-word reading programs that were imposed by the government have been a disaster. Bring back phonics, says this editorial. Link to Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/06/04/dl0401.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/06/04/ixopinion.

That's like twenty minutes worth of work at a casino! > Weary of poor grades and low graduation rates, Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation families are being fined if their kids skip school or arrive long after the bell rings. > The tribal council is fining parents $100 a

Great rant against higher education at Lew Rockwell this morning. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/doyle3.html]. Excerpt: > Here's the most diabolical part of the deal: Taxpayers lavishly subsidize higher education even while students go into debt slavery for their own reprogramming! Maybe those eggheads aren&

Professor Anthony Esolen writes in the most recent issue of Touchstone about the public universities (no link available): > We encourage you to put your homes in hock, for the privilege of a "loan" from ourselves; we ally with one another in a price-fixing cartel, and call it