Expose of Safe & Drug-Free Schools “Czar” Kevin Jennings
by Jared Bridges
December 15, 2009
New video expose of U.S. Department of Education Safe & Drug-Free Schools “Czar” Kevin Jennings:
Read more at stopjennings.org.
Tag archives: Education
Praise for Tufts Universitys New Policy on Dorm Room Sex
by
Cathy Ruse
October 2, 2009
The state of morality on the American college campus seems to be in perpetual decline, and I have shuddered to think about what it will be like in a dozen years when my own daughters will be getting ready for college. But from a liberal college in a liberal state comes a small ray of hope. Tufts University has revised its guest policy for dorm visitors for the new school year to include the following new rule: You may not engage in sexual activity while your roommate is present in the room.
Shouldnt this be obvious? Word from my friends with kids in college is that, shockingly, its not. Nor is it a problem unique to Tufts.
So a tip of the hat to the Tufts administration for having the courage to draw a line. And if Tufts can do it, any school can.
In the Know…
by
Krystle Gabele
September 24, 2009
Here’s something for your news cravings today.
- “Commentary: States should decide on gay marriage,” Jared Polis, CNN (September 24, 2009)
- “Tight schedule on move to block Ariz. abortion law,” Paul Davenport, Associated Press (September 23, 2009)
- “Study confirms most Americans want health care change but not abortion funding,” Catholic News Agency (September 23, 2009)
- “Britain To Clarify Policy on Euthanasia,” Karla Adam, The Washington Post (September 23, 2009)
- “Christian Leaders Urge Sanctions Against Iran,” Angela Abbamonte, Religion News Service (September 23, 2009)
- “‘Our Time has Come’ Or Has It?,” Ken Blackwell, American Thinker (September 24, 2009)
- “Group aims to reverse S.D. ban on embryonic stem cell research,” Katy Urban, KOTA News (September 23, 2009)
- “High-schoolers get stem cell lesson,” Carolyn Johnson, KGO-San Francisco (September 23, 2009)
- Fox News (September 24, 2009)
- “Both Sides On Defensive In Maine Marriage Debate,” WMTW (September 24, 2009)
- “No excuses,” Alisa Harris, WORLD Magazine (September 26, 2009)
God + Two Parents = Fewer Worries about Children’s Achievement
by
Michael Leaser
September 15, 2009
In the latest Mapping America, the National Survey of Children’s Health shows that children who live with both biological parents or with two adoptive parents and worship at least monthly have parents who score lowest on the parental concerns scale.
Two Parents = Fewer Worries about Children’s Achievement
by
Michael Leaser
September 8, 2009
In the latest Mapping America, the National Survey of Children’s Health shows that children who live with both biological parents or with two adoptive parents are less likely to have parents who have concerns about their children’s achievement.
Back to School with President Obama
by
Tony Perkins
September 6, 2009
In his inaugural speech in 1961 President John F. Kennedy delivered this memorable line
[“Ask not…” clip]
Fast forward nearly 50 years and President Barack Obama was poised to ask the nations elementary school students not what they could do for their country but what they could do for their President.
The White House announced that the President would be speaking live to the nations K-6th graders. The Department of Education had prepared a work sheet to accompany the speech in which the children were instructed to engage in several exercises including writing a letter about how they could help the president.
After a fire storm of opposition erupted the White House changed lesson plans and now the youngsters will be asked to consider how they can help themselves achieve their educational goals. Certainly a more appropriate question, but one that is probably more suited for middle and high school students.
However, parents remain concerned. Some are keeping their kids home from school on the day of the speech. Over 95% of parents who responded to an FRC survey said the President should not be speaking to children during classroom hours.
Some in the media have decried the parental opposition as partisan. But it is really?
Consider that this speech is being made during one of the most controversial public policy debates in years in which the president has been steadily losing public support for his health care plan.
But even if the speech does not interject policy into the class room of 6 & 7 year old children, when parents consider the agenda of this administration as represented by the presidents appointments to the education department parents have a right to be concerned.
The Secretary of the department, Arne Duncan, has promoted some pretty controversial ideas, like special schools for homosexual students when he was head of the Chicago school system. Even more concerning is Kevin Jennings who is supposedly in charge of the Safe and Drug Free School Program for the Department of Education.
Jennings is the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Educational Network, an organization that promotes homosexuality in the public schools, he also wrote the forward to a book entitled Queering Elementary Education.
This Administration has given parents plenty of reason to be concern over what is piped into the classroom. For more visit FRC.org
In the Know…
by
Krystle Gabele
September 2, 2009
Gone are the days of the Daily Buzz and Blogosphere Buzz. Instead, I decided to incorporate the two to create “In the Know.” Don’t worry, you will still receive your daily dose of news.
Here’s some articles of interest for your morning:
- “New Method For Safer Bone Marrow Transplants For Sick Children,” Medical News Today
- “Wuerl Ups Opposition To Gay Marriage,” Tim Craig, The Washington Post
- “I Told Me So: Self Deception and the Christian Life,” Matthew Lee Anderson, The Evangelical Outpost
- “Abortion laws ‘still won’t protect doctors’,” Brigid Andersen, ABC News (Australia)
- “End-of-life fears,” Emily Bregel, Chattanooga Times Free Press
- “Adult Stem Cells May Help Avoid Hip Replacements,” Wesley J. Smith, Secondhand Smoke
- “Normalizing transgenderism in schools,” Pete Chagnon, OneNewsNow
- “The issue of social justice is far bigger than the abortion debate,” Kathryn Jean Lopez, New York Daily News
- “Group Asks Court to Reconsider Removing Girl from Home School,” Joshua Rhett Miller, Fox News
- “Individual Catholic Bishops Speak Out Against Pro-Abortion Health Care Bills,” Christine, A Catholic View
- “How then shall we educate?,” Amy Henry, WORLD Magazine
- “A Stem-Cell Discovery Could Help Diabetics,” Alice Park, Time
- “Idaho school sues state over Bible plan,” Associated Press
Daily Buzz
by
Krystle Gabele
July 31, 2009
Here’s a compilation of articles for your reading pleasure.
- “Maine gay marriage opponents submit challenges,” Associated Press (July 31, 2009)
“Leaders of the Stand for Marriage campaign said Friday they collected more than 100,000 signatures of registered Maine voters. Cartons containing the petitions have been turned into the secretary of state’s office to be certified.”
- “The Case for Early Marriage,” Mark Regnerus, Christianity Today (July 31, 2009)
“If you think it’s difficult to be pro-life in a pro-choice world, or to be a disciple of Jesus in a sea of skeptics, try advocating for young marriage. Almost no one empathizes, even among the faithful. The nearly universal hostile reaction to my April 23, 2009, op-ed on early marriage in The Washington Post suggests that to esteem marriage in the public sphere today is to speak a foreign language: you invoke annoyance, confusion, or both.”
- “Stimulus Bill Funds Go to Art Houses Showing ‘Pervert’ Revues, Underground Pornography,” Joseph Abrams, Fox News (July 30, 2009)
“The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night “pervert” revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco.”
- “Liberal and Conservative Senators Unite on Bill to Reinstate D.C. School Vouchers,” Adam Brickley, CNSNews.com (July 31, 2009)
“A bipartisan group of senators announced Thursday that they plan to introduce legislation to revive the District of Columbias recently terminated D.C. Opportunity Scholarship school-voucher program.”
- “Portugal’s high court keeps gay marriage ban,” Barry Hatton, Associated Press (July 31, 2009)
- “Researchers May Have Found Equivalent of Embryonic Stem Cells,” Rob Stein, The Washington Post (July 24, 2009)
- “UF scientists program blood stem cells to become vision cells,” University of Florida News (July 30, 2009)
“University of Florida researchers were able to program bone marrow stem cells to repair damaged retinas in mice, suggesting a potential treatment for one of the most common causes of vision loss in older people.”
God + Two Parents = Fewer Calls Home from School about Children’s Behavior Problems
by
Michael Leaser
June 2, 2009
In the latest Mapping America, the National Survey of Children’s Health shows that children from intact families who worship at least monthly are less likely to have their school report behavior problems to their parents than are children who live in non-intact households and worship less than monthly.
Daily Buzz
by
Krystle Gabele
June 1, 2009
Here’s what we are reading today.
- “Pro-Life Leaders Denounce Murder of Abortion Doctor George Tiller,” FOXNews.com (June 1, 2009)
- “NY exhibit on gay rights hits amid marriage debate,” Daniel Trotta, Reuters (June 1, 2009)
- “Maryland AG Considers Recognizing Gay Marriages,” WBAL-TV (June 1, 2009)
- “Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells Injected Into Skeletal Muscle Can Repair Heart Tissue,” Science Daily (May 28, 2009)
- “Spaniards against free abortion for 16-yr-olds - poll,” Raquel Castillo, Reuters (June 1, 2009)
- “The Debate Over Sex Ed.: Fight is on in legislature over what class includes,” James Romoser, Winston-Salem Journal (May 31, 2009)
- “Local pastor prepares to take teen abstinence class to masses,” Harriet Vaughan, The Tennessean (May 29, 2009)
- “Ticket to learn,” Alisa Harris, WORLD Magazine (June 6, 2009)
- “Adult stem cell research moving forward, but still slow,” Brandi Powell, News 24 Austin (May 31, 2009)
Praise for Tufts Universitys New Policy on Dorm Room Sex
by Cathy Ruse
October 2, 2009
The state of morality on the American college campus seems to be in perpetual decline, and I have shuddered to think about what it will be like in a dozen years when my own daughters will be getting ready for college. But from a liberal college in a liberal state comes a small ray of hope. Tufts University has revised its guest policy for dorm visitors for the new school year to include the following new rule: You may not engage in sexual activity while your roommate is present in the room.
Shouldnt this be obvious? Word from my friends with kids in college is that, shockingly, its not. Nor is it a problem unique to Tufts.
So a tip of the hat to the Tufts administration for having the courage to draw a line. And if Tufts can do it, any school can.
In the Know…
by Krystle Gabele
September 24, 2009
Here’s something for your news cravings today.
- “Commentary: States should decide on gay marriage,” Jared Polis, CNN (September 24, 2009)
- “Tight schedule on move to block Ariz. abortion law,” Paul Davenport, Associated Press (September 23, 2009)
- “Study confirms most Americans want health care change but not abortion funding,” Catholic News Agency (September 23, 2009)
- “Britain To Clarify Policy on Euthanasia,” Karla Adam, The Washington Post (September 23, 2009)
- “Christian Leaders Urge Sanctions Against Iran,” Angela Abbamonte, Religion News Service (September 23, 2009)
- “‘Our Time has Come’ Or Has It?,” Ken Blackwell, American Thinker (September 24, 2009)
- “Group aims to reverse S.D. ban on embryonic stem cell research,” Katy Urban, KOTA News (September 23, 2009)
- “High-schoolers get stem cell lesson,” Carolyn Johnson, KGO-San Francisco (September 23, 2009)
- Fox News (September 24, 2009)
- “Both Sides On Defensive In Maine Marriage Debate,” WMTW (September 24, 2009)
- “No excuses,” Alisa Harris, WORLD Magazine (September 26, 2009)
God + Two Parents = Fewer Worries about Children’s Achievement
by Michael Leaser
September 15, 2009
In the latest Mapping America, the National Survey of Children’s Health shows that children who live with both biological parents or with two adoptive parents and worship at least monthly have parents who score lowest on the parental concerns scale.
Two Parents = Fewer Worries about Children’s Achievement
by Michael Leaser
September 8, 2009
In the latest Mapping America, the National Survey of Children’s Health shows that children who live with both biological parents or with two adoptive parents are less likely to have parents who have concerns about their children’s achievement.
Back to School with President Obama
by Tony Perkins
September 6, 2009
In his inaugural speech in 1961 President John F. Kennedy delivered this memorable line
[“Ask not…” clip]
Fast forward nearly 50 years and President Barack Obama was poised to ask the nations elementary school students not what they could do for their country but what they could do for their President.
The White House announced that the President would be speaking live to the nations K-6th graders. The Department of Education had prepared a work sheet to accompany the speech in which the children were instructed to engage in several exercises including writing a letter about how they could help the president.
After a fire storm of opposition erupted the White House changed lesson plans and now the youngsters will be asked to consider how they can help themselves achieve their educational goals. Certainly a more appropriate question, but one that is probably more suited for middle and high school students.
However, parents remain concerned. Some are keeping their kids home from school on the day of the speech. Over 95% of parents who responded to an FRC survey said the President should not be speaking to children during classroom hours.
Some in the media have decried the parental opposition as partisan. But it is really?
Consider that this speech is being made during one of the most controversial public policy debates in years in which the president has been steadily losing public support for his health care plan.
But even if the speech does not interject policy into the class room of 6 & 7 year old children, when parents consider the agenda of this administration as represented by the presidents appointments to the education department parents have a right to be concerned.
The Secretary of the department, Arne Duncan, has promoted some pretty controversial ideas, like special schools for homosexual students when he was head of the Chicago school system. Even more concerning is Kevin Jennings who is supposedly in charge of the Safe and Drug Free School Program for the Department of Education.
Jennings is the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Educational Network, an organization that promotes homosexuality in the public schools, he also wrote the forward to a book entitled Queering Elementary Education.
This Administration has given parents plenty of reason to be concern over what is piped into the classroom. For more visit FRC.org
In the Know…
by Krystle Gabele
September 2, 2009
Gone are the days of the Daily Buzz and Blogosphere Buzz. Instead, I decided to incorporate the two to create “In the Know.” Don’t worry, you will still receive your daily dose of news.
Here’s some articles of interest for your morning:
- “New Method For Safer Bone Marrow Transplants For Sick Children,” Medical News Today
- “Wuerl Ups Opposition To Gay Marriage,” Tim Craig, The Washington Post
- “I Told Me So: Self Deception and the Christian Life,” Matthew Lee Anderson, The Evangelical Outpost
- “Abortion laws ‘still won’t protect doctors’,” Brigid Andersen, ABC News (Australia)
- “End-of-life fears,” Emily Bregel, Chattanooga Times Free Press
- “Adult Stem Cells May Help Avoid Hip Replacements,” Wesley J. Smith, Secondhand Smoke
- “Normalizing transgenderism in schools,” Pete Chagnon, OneNewsNow
- “The issue of social justice is far bigger than the abortion debate,” Kathryn Jean Lopez, New York Daily News
- “Group Asks Court to Reconsider Removing Girl from Home School,” Joshua Rhett Miller, Fox News
- “Individual Catholic Bishops Speak Out Against Pro-Abortion Health Care Bills,” Christine, A Catholic View
- “How then shall we educate?,” Amy Henry, WORLD Magazine
- “A Stem-Cell Discovery Could Help Diabetics,” Alice Park, Time
- “Idaho school sues state over Bible plan,” Associated Press
Daily Buzz
by Krystle Gabele
July 31, 2009
Here’s a compilation of articles for your reading pleasure.
- “Maine gay marriage opponents submit challenges,” Associated Press (July 31, 2009)
- “The Case for Early Marriage,” Mark Regnerus, Christianity Today (July 31, 2009)
- “Stimulus Bill Funds Go to Art Houses Showing ‘Pervert’ Revues, Underground Pornography,” Joseph Abrams, Fox News (July 30, 2009)
- “Liberal and Conservative Senators Unite on Bill to Reinstate D.C. School Vouchers,” Adam Brickley, CNSNews.com (July 31, 2009)
- “Portugal’s high court keeps gay marriage ban,” Barry Hatton, Associated Press (July 31, 2009)
- “Researchers May Have Found Equivalent of Embryonic Stem Cells,” Rob Stein, The Washington Post (July 24, 2009)
- “UF scientists program blood stem cells to become vision cells,” University of Florida News (July 30, 2009)
“Leaders of the Stand for Marriage campaign said Friday they collected more than 100,000 signatures of registered Maine voters. Cartons containing the petitions have been turned into the secretary of state’s office to be certified.”
“If you think it’s difficult to be pro-life in a pro-choice world, or to be a disciple of Jesus in a sea of skeptics, try advocating for young marriage. Almost no one empathizes, even among the faithful. The nearly universal hostile reaction to my April 23, 2009, op-ed on early marriage in The Washington Post suggests that to esteem marriage in the public sphere today is to speak a foreign language: you invoke annoyance, confusion, or both.”
“The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night “pervert” revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco.”
“A bipartisan group of senators announced Thursday that they plan to introduce legislation to revive the District of Columbias recently terminated D.C. Opportunity Scholarship school-voucher program.”
“University of Florida researchers were able to program bone marrow stem cells to repair damaged retinas in mice, suggesting a potential treatment for one of the most common causes of vision loss in older people.”
God + Two Parents = Fewer Calls Home from School about Children’s Behavior Problems
by Michael Leaser
June 2, 2009
In the latest Mapping America, the National Survey of Children’s Health shows that children from intact families who worship at least monthly are less likely to have their school report behavior problems to their parents than are children who live in non-intact households and worship less than monthly.
Daily Buzz
by Krystle Gabele
June 1, 2009
Here’s what we are reading today.
- “Pro-Life Leaders Denounce Murder of Abortion Doctor George Tiller,” FOXNews.com (June 1, 2009)
- “NY exhibit on gay rights hits amid marriage debate,” Daniel Trotta, Reuters (June 1, 2009)
- “Maryland AG Considers Recognizing Gay Marriages,” WBAL-TV (June 1, 2009)
- “Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells Injected Into Skeletal Muscle Can Repair Heart Tissue,” Science Daily (May 28, 2009)
- “Spaniards against free abortion for 16-yr-olds - poll,” Raquel Castillo, Reuters (June 1, 2009)
- “The Debate Over Sex Ed.: Fight is on in legislature over what class includes,” James Romoser, Winston-Salem Journal (May 31, 2009)
- “Local pastor prepares to take teen abstinence class to masses,” Harriet Vaughan, The Tennessean (May 29, 2009)
- “Ticket to learn,” Alisa Harris, WORLD Magazine (June 6, 2009)
- “Adult stem cell research moving forward, but still slow,” Brandi Powell, News 24 Austin (May 31, 2009)