Education - news
Conservatives lose Texas evolution vote
AUSTIN, Texas—A closely watched effort to keep a 20-year-old requirement that Texas public high school students evaluate the “strengths and weaknesses” of scientific theories, including evolution, failed Thursday in a 7-7 vote by the State Board of Education. more »
By Jerry Pierce - Mar 26, 2009
Topic: Family, Education, Science, Creation/Evolution
New law may have killed D.C. school choice
The newly enacted, $410 billion omnibus spending measure may have sounded the death knell for the District of Columbia’s school-choice program. more »
By staff - Mar 13, 2009
Topic: Family, Education, Citizenship, Church and State, Legislation
Omnibus bill cuts abstinence spending
WASHINGTON—Federal funding for community-based abstinence education has taken a $14 million cut in the omnibus spending bill currently being debated in the Senate, making it one of the few Health and Human Services programs to receive a cut in funding. more »
By Erin Roach - Mar 6, 2009
Topic: Family, Education, Sexual Purity, Abstinence
Stimulus Package No Stimulant for Christian Students
The $787 billion stimulus package rushed through Congress late last week passes on a tab of nearly $10,000 to every American family in exchange for plenty of pork to fatten the national debt past $12 trillion. more »
By Doug Carlson - Feb 17, 2009 - (7)
Topic: Family, Education, Citizenship, Legislation, National, Religious Liberty
Specially made, after all?
Christians have been told since the days of Copernicus, who correctly theorized the earth was not the center of the universe or even the center of the solar system, that there’s really nothing special about our earthly existence. more »
By William H. Perkins, Jr. - Nov 7, 2008
Topic: Science, Creation/Evolution
TDAC educates kids about dangers of alcohol, drugs
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Since 1937 the Tennessee Drug Awareness Council (formerly the United Tennessee League) has trumpeted the dangers of alcohol and drugs. more »
By Lonnie Wilkey - Oct 5, 2008
Topic: Family, Addictions, , Substance Abuse, Children, Education
Amethyst Initiative: A bad idea!
Every day college students make numerous choices. Many of these decisions are inconsequential; however, some decisions can impact the rest of their lives. more »
By Pat Taylor - Sep 29, 2008 - (1)
Topic: Family, Addictions, Substance Abuse, Education, Citizenship, Legislation
PERSPECTIVE: Salt and light
Some have suggested in recent years that Christians should abandon the public school system.
Indeed, there have been increases in both homeschooling and private Christian education. more »
By Anthony L. Jordan - Sep 18, 2008 - (4)
Topic: Family, Children, Education
Abstinence education: A program that survives scrutiny
“Abstinence education is a failure.” Variations of that message are beginning to pop up in the media once again in light of recent events calling into question the effectiveness of these programs. more »
By Doug Carlson - Sep 3, 2008
Topic: Family, Children, Education, Sexual Purity, Abstinence
Parents’, Educators’ Rights and Responsibilities
This past May, one of our own, former Lt. Gov. Walter Bradley, was quoted widely by media across the state expressing his concern about the publication of photographs of and interviews with two same-sex student couples in the Clovis High School yearbook. more »
By John Loudat - Aug 26, 2008
Topic: Family, Children, Education, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality