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Closing the Department of Education, Promoting a ‘Curriculum of Family’
- Education, Family, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- March 20, 2025
Forty years ago, I read an account of some Americans helping several Germans escape East Berlin by passing them off as U.S. citizens. They provided passports and other papers to the Germans, and outfitted them with Western-style clothing. As the date for their escape loomed, one of the Germans said to their handlers, “Now, you
READ MORELet’s begin, as so many good things begin, with the dream. For years, conservative political activist, wife, and mother Connie Marshner of Front Royal, Va., dreamed of opening a private library, one aimed particularly at children. “I had collected books forever, especially children’s books, because I believe so strongly in beauty and beautiful books,” Marshner
READ MOREIs there an epidemic of loneliness in the United States? Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy thought so. In 2023, he declared a national epidemic of loneliness and isolation, stating in June 2024, “The overall mortality impact of loneliness and isolation are on par with smoking daily, and they’re even greater than the mortality impact we
READ MOREThe 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as the Nation’s Report Card, came out in January, and student reading scores slipped once again. About 40% of fourth-graders and 33% of eighth-graders scored below the test’s basic level. Although states like Alabama provided bright spots in this grim picture with improvement in reading and
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