Syndicated radio host and bestselling author Mark Levin spoke to over 1,000 “fellow patriots” on Sunday night at his “favorite place,” the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Levin signed copies of, and discussed his youth-focused book Plunder and Deceit: Big Government’s Exploitation
As Greeks prepare for the beginning of the school year in September, there are serious concerns among Ministry of Education officials that as many as 27,000 teacher and university professor positions will remain unfilled. Officials are scrambling to recruit substitute teachers with fewer certifications to fill classrooms.
Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeb Bush slammed Hillary Clinton’s plan as being a poor fit for the modern economic and educational needs of today’s students and for its negative impact on taxpayers.
Going into 2016, conservatives need to highlight and defend the efforts of governors and legislators who are making positive efforts to get their states on the right track.
The Welsh Government is poised to oust religious education and ban Christianity from schools to “rise to the challenge of community cohesion” and “extremism.” Welsh Minister for Education and Skills Huw Lewis, told Senedd, The Welsh Parliament: “My contention would be
British schoolchildren are “rude, bone-idle and cossetted by the welfare state“. So say a group of Chinese teachers who, as part of a BBC TV experiment (Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School – first episode on tonight), spent four
A group of Chinese teachers has branded British kids ill disciplined and emotionally immature after being tasked with teaching at UK comprehensive schools. Traditional “chalk and talk” teaching methods favoured by the Chinese have been credited with sending their country
in his elegant and moving new book, Plunder and Deceit, Mark Levin takes his message to the next generation.
Mark Levin is hardly blind to all the other Big Government plunder going on, but in every chapter he returns to the ruling vs. rising generational conflict, urging young people to wake up and pull the political burglar alarms before they are wiped out. He knows this is an uphill battle, because so many liberal positions have been made fashionable to the very same young people whose future is being stolen by statism.
British exam boards have been criticised for making questions too easy after it emerged one paper asked 16-year-old school leavers to ‘spot the difference’ between two pictures. The AQA History GCSE paper presents students with two images of the House
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said that because of the failure of education, his city is not a viable destination for many companies, including the high tech industry. His remarks came during a conference of five North Texas mayors who participated in a workforce skills “gap” panel that focused on the role of local city and business leaders in public education.
At this year’s annual National Council of La Raza Conference, Kansas City Mayor Mark Holland—a Democrat—boasted that 62 languages are spoken in one school district.
Israeli police have arrested six Arab Bedouin residents of Hura, Israel on charges that they had formed a terror cell and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group.
“When it comes to race, America is a better and more tolerant and more welcoming place than it has ever been. So why is it that even today, so many black families feel left behind?” asked Perry, noting that African-Americans continued to economically lag behind other Americans. Democrats have long had the opportunity to govern in African-American communities. It is time to help black families hold them accountable for the results.
Members of the Chicago teachers union and some Chicago parents are protesting this week’s decision made by union officials to fire 1,400 union employees and make $200 million in budget cuts all in order to meet its pending pension obligation.
The UK’s Glastonbury music fest featured a slew of big names over the weekend, and although rapper Kanye West was describing himself as “the greatest living rock star on the planet” Saturday, the Dalai Lama spent Sunday calling for world peace.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Perry shared his perspective on how this campaign differs from his 2012 attempt, why he believes that his record stacks up favorably against any of his competitors, what he believes will be a major challenge for former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL), his thoughts on the abuses at the VA, and a special memory he shared about time he spent with Breitbart News founder, the late Andrew Breitbart.
The Failure to Attend School (FTAS), also known as “truancy,” will no longer be a criminal offense in the state of Texas. Governor Greg Abbott signed the historic House Bill 2398 into law on June 18, enacting comprehensive truancy reform. The landmark legislation will go into effect on September 1, according to the Governor’s office.
Parents from the north of Italy have organized a massive demonstration against gender ideology in schools called “Defend Our Children,” to be held this Saturday in the Saint John Lateran Square in Rome. The demonstrators will be protesting Italian educational programs that are meant to blur the sexual identity of children.
The former Labour education secretary Charles Clarke has called for the abolition of Christian assemblies in British schools as part of a radical reform of the relationship between schools and religion. He would also like to see religious education replaced
The largest school district in the Lone Star State was shaken up when thousands of annual State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) end-of-course completed exam answer sheets vanished. It was quite the find when all but 68 of them resurfaced this week.
Nearly 20 per cent of students currently studying at primary schools in England do not have English as a first language, new figures reveal. Statistics published by the Department for Education show that out of 3,572,108 students in state primary
A study being called the “most authoritative” review of the impact of the PBS series Sesame Street on children is scheduled to be released this month. In part, the report finds that the decades-old show is just as effective as preschool for educating little ones.
You wouldn’t know that the fawning New York Magazine piece on Jeb Bush was written by someone who “agrees with exactly nothing the governor says,” if they didn’t tell you. Clearly, Jeb is the choice of liberal Democrats. Perhaps they inherently sense that Hillary Clinton would make short work of him in a general election.
One of Britain’s most prestigious schools is considering banning homework to combat depression among its students. Cheltenham Ladies’ College is set to consider dropping homework – known at the school as “prep” – in response to an “anxiety epidemic” among
AUSTIN, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott said the end of this legislative session brings many of his efforts over the past two years to reality. From the time he announced his candidacy for governor, Abbott has been building and working to implement a “Bicentennial Blueprint for Texas” which he said will mold the Lone Star State to being an even better place to live and work.
When you visit the website of the Spanish-language TV network Univision, the issue that the network solely covers, and in some cases promotes, is that of immigration.
A survey given to nine-year-old children to ascertain whether they may be terrorists in the making has been slammed as “Orwellian” by shocked parents. One predicted a rise in home schooling following the invasion of privacy, as neither parents or school staff
British school children are getting an increasingly raw deal from the British education system thanks to larger class sizes and poorer attainment, a new report has found. Critics have pointed to the government’s failure to build enough new schools to keep up with
In his weekly audience Wednesday, Pope Francis continued his reflections on the family, urging separated parents not to make their children bear the brunt of their difficulties.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 149 (SB 149) into law on Monday, May 11. The goal of this legislation is to create another path to high-school graduation for students who do not pass two of the five annual End-of-Course (EOC) State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) tests.
It is said that those who would trade essential liberty for security deserve neither. That goes for the liberty of ideas as well. Ideas that cannot survive the slightest contact with contrary thought are not worth having.
During his commencement address at Liberty University on Saturday, presumptive 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush blistered the Obama administration for its “use of coercive federal power” to restrict religious freedom.
In an internal memo dated April 29, 2015, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced the California Department of Education (CDE) was dropping the “Common Core” name, but keeping the Common Core system.
The Internal Revenue Service erroneously provided billions of dollars in educations tax credits to ineligible students, according to a new government watchdog report.
Malala Yousafzai was just 15 years old when a gang of thugs boarded her school bus and shot her in the head in 2012. Her “crime” involved crusading for the education of young girls living under Taliban oppression. After a trial shrouded in secrecy, it appears that a Pakistani court has dealt life sentences against ten men involved in the attack.
Of the 23 million children under the age of six in the U.S., one in four have immigrant parents according to a new Migration Policy Institute report.
During oral arguments before the Supreme Court on whether same-sex marriage should be a “right,” the Obama administration admitted that religious schools teaching marriage as the union of one man and one woman could lose their tax-exempt status as a
A school in northeast France received criticism after the principal sent home a 15-year-old Muslim girl named Sarah for wearing a long black skirt, which the principal believed was a violation of the nation’s secular dress code for schools.
There are two new alleged cases of Texas teachers taken into custody for sexual misconduct in the classroom. One, a male elementary school teacher in the Houston area, was charged with indecency after upskirting an eight-year-old girl with his iPhone. The other, a female Dallas high school teacher, was arrested for an improper relationship with a male student.
