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  • America’s Public Schools Are No Longer Serving the Public

    America’s Public Schools Are No Longer Serving the Public0

    Betsy DeVos, the new U.S. Education Secretary, is an advocate of school choice. As such, her confirmation hearings have generated warnings that Trump wants to “destroy” public education. The very adjective “public” is a marketing advantage for those who support the current government-run school system. For many Americans, it still connotes a non-elitist form of

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  • Happy 150th Birthday, Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Happy 150th Birthday, Laura Ingalls Wilder0

    Laura Ingalls was born on February 7, 1867, in a log cabin in Pepin, Wisconsin. The family’s trip from Pepin to their ultimate destination in DeSmet, South Dakota would take less than seven hours today; for Laura Ingalls and her family – Pa, Ma, Mary, Carrie, Baby Grace, and the faithful bulldog Jack – the

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  • What’s Really Wrong with American Schools

    What’s Really Wrong with American Schools0

    With the confirmation of Betsy DeVos to head the U.S. Department of Education, it’s a good time to think about what’s wrong with our schools and what will have to be done to fix them. DeVos is most notable for her efforts in support of school choice. School choice is important, but it is only

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  • The NEA’s 14 Principles–From 1908

    The NEA’s 14 Principles–From 19080

    Have you ever wondered what the Nation’s largest teacher union (the National Education Association or the NEA) thinks about religion, the Bible, and character education? I honestly don’t think I’d ever given it much thought until the other day when I unearthed a set of the organization’s 14 principles from 1908. They were so surprising

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  • Our So-Called ‘Tolerant’ Society Is Actually Very Dogmatic

    Our So-Called ‘Tolerant’ Society Is Actually Very Dogmatic0

    The Book of Daniel tells us that the three Jewish youths in Babylon were cast into a “white-hot furnace” for not falling down and worshipping the king’s golden statue. Thousands of early Christians were reportedly martyred for refusing to deny Christ and affirm the divinity of the Roman emperor. Of course, this kind of thing

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  • Immigration Lessons for President Trump from Thomas Aquinas

    Immigration Lessons for President Trump from Thomas Aquinas0

    I am grateful to The Imaginative Conservative for publishing Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s reasoned defence of President Trump’s executive order placing a ninety day moratorium on immigration from countries deemed to pose a terrorist threat to the United States. I am grateful also for a recent essay by John Horvat II in which Mr. Horvat discusses what

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