I am not Catholic but I am an Indian. Having lived in India for more than a decade of my life, I know a thing or two about the poor who continuously struggle with abject poverty and hopelessness every day. Thus, an attack against the character and reputation of Mother Teresa is incomprehensible to me. [...]
This is the other side of the “teachers are so terrible” coin. When our fat, texting under the table, kids think Pandora is a real country, then we might have problems. Laughs provided by Jimmy Kimmel Live.
School choice receives strong support from likely voters in key 2012 battleground states WASHINGTON, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – Education ranks behind only the economy and jobs as the most important consideration among likely Latino voters in five battleground states, according to a survey released today by the American Federation for Children (AFC) and the Hispanic Council [...]
Benjamin Franklin once said “The good education of youth has been esteemed by wise men in all ages, as the surest foundation of the happiness both of private families and of common-wealths,” He and the rest of the Founders recognized that the continuation of liberty is in the hands of an educated electorate. When the [...]
It’s been a busy week on the education front in Virginia. The General Assembly, concerned about academics and discipline, defeated the “Tebow” bill that would have allowed homeschoolers to try out for high school athletic teams. And Assembly also defeated a tenure reform bill that would have made it easier to fire incompetent teachers mostly [...]
KYH, Article 1 in a series . Today, March 15th, is the Ides Of March. Many people are familiar with the phrase “Beware the Ides of March”, but don’t know the meaning behind it. And it is much more than a recent George Clooney movie! . The most famous reason for having knowledge of this day [...]
There is an underground society in today’s America. These invisible people pay taxes just like the rest of us, but are ostracized because of their background. The promise of America is denied them. Instead they lead a clannish, insular existance, suspicious of the authorities and on the fringes of mainstream life. Often driving by some [...]
President Barack Obama’s newly-released federal budget would not provide funding to the highly-successful D.C. voucher program, despite an agreement signed by the president last year that reauthorized the program.
President Barack Obama’s newly-released federal budget would not provide funding to the highly-successful D.C. voucher program, despite an agreement signed by the president last year that reauthorized the program.
Even though she was evicted from her position as Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) is still trying to tell us how to run our own houses. Her latest frightful commitment to the American people is that if the Democrats are re-elected in 2012 “we will do to childcare what we did to [...]
A Silver Spring, MD 7-11 was hit by coordinated shoplifting by a flash mob of as many as 50 teenagers and young adults last Saturday night. Behold what our dumbed-down school system and anything-goes pop culture hath wrought;, 50 kids whose idea of Saturday night fun is using technology they have no idea how to [...]
The day had been planned for more than a week. My husband was taking the day off so we could spend it together. It was our 9-year Anniversary. For some strange reason, the day we planned went nothing like we had hoped. It started off with me being sick. The day before I had awaken [...]
