Tag: Education & Family News

American Library Association Removes Webpage Promoting ‘Secret’ LGBT Messaging in Libraries

September 2, 2022
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The American Library Association (ALA) destroyed a webpage that taught librarians how to secretly promote pro-LGBT messaging. The original page, written by Maryland librarian Tess Goldwasser, told librarians how to sneak pro-LGBT books into towns that don’t want them. “Do you work for a library in a small, rural, conservative community? Are you a frontline…

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Texas Parents Win Another Round in Fight to Block Progressive Changes to Social Studies

September 2, 2022
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Despite amendments that could have derailed parents’ fight against gender, sexual and racial ideologies, the Texas education board voted Friday to postpone and reassess controversial changes to the state’s social studies curriculum. On Tuesday, a committee of the entire board voted to shelve controversial changes to social studies until 2025 after an outcry from conservative…

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Elite NYC School Teacher Admits ‘Sneaking’ in Left-Wing Agenda, Complains About ‘White Boys’: Project Veritas

September 2, 2022
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A Manhattan private school administrator was captured in an undercover video complaining about “horrible” white students who have been pushing back against the leftist ideology she has been using her position to promote. Jennifer “Ginn” Norris, the director of student activities at the Trinity School, was filmed by undercover news organization Project Veritas discussing how she and…

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72 Percent of Top US Medical Schools Using Identity, Racial Politics in Admissions Process: Report

September 2, 2022
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The majority of America’s top-ranked medical schools are injecting racial politics into the admissions process, according to a review conducted by the medical advocacy group Do No Harm. The review (pdf), published in August, found that 72 percent of the nation’s top 50 schools and 80 percent of the top 10 schools ask probing questions to determine applicants’…

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Learning the Lesson: Kindergarten Children In Maine To Be Taught Transgenderism

September 1, 2022
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Transgenderism will likely be as familiar to some Maine kindergartners as triangles, under a new curriculum designed by Pro-LGBT group OUT Maine. But while they are concerned, many parents fear opposing it publicly. OUT Maine designed the program for state use by the Maine Department of Education (DOE). “These lessons are designed for any classroom…

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Giving Kids a ‘Shield and Sword’ for the Current Intellectual Battle: Author Connor Boyack

September 1, 2022
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Connor Boyack is the founder of the Libertas Institute and author of the Tuttle Twins children’s books, which have sold 4 million copies. He recently released “America’s History,” a new Tuttle Twins story-based textbook to counter the “superficial history” taught by today’s social studies textbooks. Boyack’s goal is to empower parents to equip their children…

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‘Nation’s Report Card’: Pandemic Disruption Erodes 20 Years of Growth in Math, Reading Scores

September 1, 2022
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American 9-year-olds suffered a dismal drop in their math and reading scores during the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest federal assessment data shows. The report released Thursday by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), popularly known as the “Nation’s Report Card,” paints a bleak picture of how decades of academic progress were erased in the…

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Biden’s Student Loan Relief Will Lead to Severe Tax Hikes, More Inflation, Economists Say

September 1, 2022
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News Analysis President Joe Biden’s ambitious plan to eliminate $10,000 of federal student debt, and $20,000 for those borrowers who received federal Pell Grants, will worsen the government’s roughly $30 trillion deficit while giving the incumbent party a justification to raise taxes steeply in the near future, economists who study the issue have told The…

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California Moves Closer to Mandatory Kindergarten for Students

September 1, 2022
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The California Senate passed Senate Bill 70 on Monday, moving closer to making kindergarten mandatory for all students in the state. SB 70, passed by the Senate with a 33–5 vote, will require that a child complete one year at kindergarten before being admitted to first grade at a public elementary school. If signed into…

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Connecticut Elementary School Administrator Promotes ‘Subtle’ Left-Wing Indoctrination: Project Veritas

August 31, 2022
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An elementary school administrator in Greenwich, Connecticut was captured in an undercover video boasting about how he refuses to hire Catholic or conservative teachers, and how the teachers at his school subtly inject left-wing progressive ideology into their teaching. In a video released by news organization Project Veritas, Jeremy Boland, assistant principal at Cos Cob…

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