Education

April 2011

April 24, 2011
Last time I wrote about the lack of secular education in Morinville (in Alberta, Canada),...
April 21, 2011
Nickelodeon, a channel for children, recently aired a faith-focused episode of Nick News. Host Linda...
April 16, 2011
I don't know why Jameel Naqvi or his editor at the Daily Herald feel this...
April 14, 2011
I recently got an email from a student at the University of Illinois who's helping...
April 13, 2011
Despite all the amazing things to happen on Ask An Atheist Day today, this was...
April 08, 2011
Jessica Ahlquist is the high school sophomore at the center of the lawsuit against the...
April 07, 2011
I've heard right-wingers say that college is a bastion of secularism -- come in as...
April 06, 2011
Joe Zamecki has been an atheist activist for years... which is why it makes perfect...
April 05, 2011
Remember that religious banner up in Rhode Island's Cranston High School West? Our Heavenly Father....
April 03, 2011
There is a wonderful article in Monday's New York Times by Michael Winerip in which...
April 01, 2011
Dale McGowan's daughter came home last month and was gushing about one of her teachers:...

March 2011

March 27, 2011
After posting a lot about schools in which teacher-preachers aren't really punished, it's nice to...
March 27, 2011
Canadians in Alberta, what the hell is going on in your education system? It's not...
March 24, 2011
My thoughts on Libertyville High School's Creationist science teacher are now up on the Chicago...
March 24, 2011
Here's what I know about Senate Bill 1619, filed recently by Illinois State Senator Heather...
March 23, 2011
Last we heard, Michael Newdow's long-standing attempt to remove "Under God" from the Pledge of...
March 18, 2011
I thought the controversy over a Ten Commandments display in Giles County, Virginia public schools...
March 15, 2011
Tau Day is *much* cooler: (via Vi Hart)
March 15, 2011
After activist Rob Sherman heard that a science teacher at Libertyville High School in Illinois...
March 12, 2011
Even though I love Math and Biology, none of my college classes were all that...
March 11, 2011
In honor of Pi Day (on March 14th), the students at my high school voted...
March 11, 2011
Some students at publicly-funded-despite-being-Catholic St. Patrick High School in Ontario, Canada recently participated in the...
March 10, 2011
***Update***: The Facebook link mentioned below has been fixed. ... A couple of months ago,...
March 06, 2011
A week after anonymous gay and lesbian students at Harding University (a private, Christian school)...
March 06, 2011
Last week, I was disturbed to see all four candidates for the Lake Zurich Unit...
March 02, 2011
Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas is a Christian school (associated with the Churches of Christ)....
March 01, 2011
You hear all the time that the ACLU is just a group of liberal atheists,...
March 01, 2011
It's hard enough to begin an atheist group at a secular school, but it's even...

February 2011

February 26, 2011
Last week, I mentioned a school district in Illinois where two of the candidates for...
February 26, 2011
Earlier this week, I mentioned the story of the evangelical Christian wrestler (Joel Northrup) who...
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