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July 2, 2018
Kelvey Vander Hart

Is This GOP Senator Right to Consider Roe v. Wade Settled Law?
As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement last week, one vivid possibility flashed across the minds of pro-lifers throughout the country: the overturning of Roe v. Wade. However, certain GOP members of Congress are not supportive of this possibility, most notably Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine).[...]
June 29, 2018
Karen R. Effrem, MD

Bill Gates Education Experiment Fails Again, Taxpayers Foot $300 Million Bill
A new report by the Rand Corporation evaluating yet another Bill Gates education debacle -- this time for teacher evaluation -- was discussed recently in both Forbes by Rick Hess and Bloomberg by Cathy O’Neil. Shane Vander Hart at Truth in American Education also analyzed the Bloomberg piece. This Gates boondoggle spent $575 million (of which only $212 million came from the Gates Foundation) on three public school districts and four charter management organizations:[...]
June 29, 2018
Catherine Davis

Let’s Be Honest Maxine, You Care Nothing for Children
As America appears to be descending into what some believe will be a second civil war over political differences, there is a real civil war being waged against Black women and babies that is rapidly moving America’s Black population into obscurity. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and others like her have signed onto and promoted this greatest crime against humanity since World War II. Her crime is not the brouhaha of children of illegal immigrants being separated from their parents at the border. Her betrayal goes much deeper because the very people who elected her, who believe she is protecting them from discrimination and harm, are the very people she has used her influence to place into the hands of eugenicists who are gradually wiping them out of existence.[...]
June 21, 2018
Bridget Starrs

Education Expert: Mass. Schools Replacing History with “Progressive Propaganda”
In a white paper released today by the Pioneer Institute in Boston, entitled “No Longer a City on a Hill: Massachusetts Degrades its K-12 History Standards”, education policy experts outline a strong case against the 2018 rewrite of the Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework. The paper examines the politicized, progressive bent of the proposed changes and argues that the curriculum rewrite “eviscerates” the standards for history education previously used by the state, which were widely acknowledged as among the best in the nation.[...]