David Mislin, Temple University As the 2020 election approaches in the United States, President Donald Trump is adding school prayer to the list of contentious issues up for debate. At a rally in early January he announced plans to “safeguard students’ and teachers’ First Amendment rights to pray in our schools.” On the schedule of…
Mary Margaret Olohan – The Austin Independent School District plans to implement a progressive sex education curriculum in 2020. – Parents and activists expressed concerns over the curriculum’s sexually explicit nature to the Daily Caller News Foundation. – “A lot of people will say that abstinence isn’t a reality,” a candidate for the state’s House…
There is a popular saying that “the proof is in the pudding.” In the first part of this article set, my colleague Mike Margeson spelled out the historical roots of the American schooling system. He clearly laid out the blueprint that men like Horace Mann used to build a system that does anything but “educates.”…