Tag: Education & Family News

Coalition Urges Biden Administration to Lift Pause on Student Loan Payments

A coalition of groups on March 8 urged President Joe Biden’s administration to end the pause on student loan payments, arguing the policy is costing taxpayers billions of dollars each month. “The moratorium is fundamentally unfair and is a special favor for affluent elites at the expense of low- and middle-income Americans,” the Americans for…


Grim Future for Our Less Educated Sons

Commentary In his latest book, “The Boy Crisis,” Warren Farrell makes this chilling point. “For the first time in American history, our sons will have less education than their dads.” Farrell explained that when girls were doing badly in maths and science, it was decided that “the trouble was with the schools.” His country tackled…


American Children Losing Motivation and Creativity, Teachers Say

Creativity and enthusiasm define childhood, but American children seem to be losing these gifts, teachers say. American children are less creative and less motivated than past generations. When teachers compare today’s children with their peers from only a few years ago, there’s a clear difference, according to Page Park, an Indiana teacher with 24 years…


PART 2: Wokal Distance: How Woke Ideologues Rig the Rules of Debate

In our previous episode with Wokal Distance, released on February 10th, Wokal Distance explained the underpinnings of woke ideology, including its assertions that there is no absolute truth, and that all claims to truth are warped by power. Now in part two, he breaks down the concept of intersectionality and how woke ideologues rig the…


Rep. Virginia Foxx on America’s Education Crisis

The United States is facing an education crisis as a result of the Biden administration pleasing teachers’ unions by keeping schools closed, said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), the top Republican on the House Education Committee. “We got an education crisis, it’s gonna take us a long time to catch up with what’s happened,” said Foxx…


New York Education Department Promotes Sexually Explicit Book for National Reading Event

The New York State Education Department (NYSED) promoted on social media a graphic novel that contains illustrations of teenage boys performing oral sex, only to remove the post and claim to be unaware of the book’s explicit sexual contents. In a series of posts on Tuesday, the NYSED celebrated this year’s “Read Across America,” a…


Virginia Set to Become First State to Adopt Law Allowing Parents to Review Sexually Explicit School Material

A Virginia bill (pdf) that requires schools to notify parents of sexually explicit content instructional materials and allows parents to review such content is heading to the desk of Gov. Glenn Youngkin, fulfilling one of his key campaign promises. If signed into law, the bill, which passed the state House on Feb. 28 and the…


Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of Non-Indian Couple Denied Adoption of Indian Child

The Supreme Court has agreed to review the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), enacted by Congress in 1978 to prevent non-Indian families from adopting Native American children. On Feb. 28, the court granted the petition for review in the case, Haaland v. Brackeen, court file 21-376, which it consolidated with Cherokee Nation…


MIT Cuts Ties With Research University It Helped Develop in Russia

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has severed its long-standing ties with a research institute it helped found outside Moscow, citing the ongoing military offensive by Russia in Ukraine. In a statement released on Feb. 25, MIT said it has notified the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) that the decade-long relationship between the…


Critical Race Theory is Race Marxism: Author James Lindsay

James Lindsay, author of “Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis,” says that the critical race theory currently moving through American society is a modern iteration of Marxism that uses identity and race, rather than class, to pit people against each other and advocate for revolution. After studying volumes of classic Marxist and…