Category Archives: standards

U.N. Protocol to Regulate Homeschoolers

The British Government is considering using the UN Protocol on the Rights of the Child to regulate homeschoolers in their nation.  If you are unfamiliar with this movement and/or this article, please follow this link to WorldNetDaily. So why is this dangerous?  Because it surrenders sovereignty of the British Government to an external government.  In ...

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Common Education Standards for 46 States

"Forty-six states and the District of Columbia today will announce an effort to craft a single vision for what children should learn each year from kindergarten through high school graduation, an unprecedented step toward a uniform definition of success in American schools," as reported in the Post. A tad bit more of the article... "The push ...

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Teacher Asks Student to Cheat

By Rucks Russell HOUSTON -- “He said he’d give me a hundred balloon bucks if I pretended to be somebody else,” said Vecino Rogers, a 9-year-old fourth grade student at Alexander Elementary School. “I knew it sounded funny, but I wanted the money.” Read more here

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14% of the US Population Struggle with Reading & Writing

From the Christian Science Monitor, an article worth reading by Stacy Teicher Khadaroo. "About 30 million people – 14 percent of the US population 16 and older – have trouble with basic reading and writing. Correlating factors that were explored in a new government report include poverty, ethnicity, native language background, and disabilities.... Of these ...

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