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Closing the Department of Education, Promoting a ‘Curriculum of Family’
- Education, Family, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- March 20, 2025
Rumor has it that President Trump plans to sign an executive order on March 20, 2025, dismantling the U.S. Department of Education (ED). “Formally closing the department requires an act of Congress,” NBC News reports. “But even without formally shutting it down, the Trump administration could effectively make it nearly impossible for employees to carry
READ MORENot long ago, President Donald Trump signed The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Surrounded by a bunch of sweet and excited young girls, the action was heralded with fanfare, proclaiming that common sense had returned to America and that the young females among us would no longer be threatened by predators in
READ MOREIn Charles Dickens’ “Bleak House,” we encounter Mrs. Jellyby, a fanatical, crusading philanthropist who by correspondence and personal contacts hopes to bring education and trade to a remote part of Africa. Mrs. Jellyby spends much of her time dictating letters and memorandum to a “jaded and unhealthy-looking” girl who “seemed to have no article of
READ MOREOccasionally, two diametrically opposed realities spring to our attention, surprising us by means of their stark contrast and then summoning up unexpected revelations. That happened recently as I was working on my laptop in my favorite coffee shop, Dynamic Life. Behind me 10 women, all of grandmotherly age with Bibles at hand, scooted a couple
READ MOREForty 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 MOREThe Philadelphia Eagles trounced the Kansas City Chiefs last weekend at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, and as always with the annual event, the national conversation was as much about the advertisements as the game. I was pleasantly surprised, amid our current political rancor, to note some messaging promoting patriotism, unity and civility, appeals
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