Education

December 2015

December 02, 2015
In September, I posted about Concord High School in Indiana, where the holiday concert includes...
December 02, 2015
When a child at a Wisconsin elementary school quietly came out to administrators as transgender, the school...

November 2015

November 30, 2015
Michael Epperson's sensible piece on Friendly Atheist, about whether we should refer to Islam as a...
November 26, 2015
It's bad enough when public high school football coaches preach to the athletes. But it's...
November 26, 2015
Earlier this year, when the UK Department for Education issued its new curriculum for GCSE...
November 25, 2015
Sabillasville Elementary School in Maryland held a 50th anniversary celebration last week. For some reason,...
November 25, 2015
This should be obvious by now: Public universities are not equivalent to private hotel chains....
November 25, 2015
Last month, when more than a dozen candidates were in a battle for five spots...
November 25, 2015
Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle is making a pitch for why he should be Governor...
November 24, 2015
It won't surprise you that religion is baked right into schools in Ireland -- religious...
November 24, 2015
If you think about what the Satanic Temple has accomplished recently, it's impressive for any...
November 23, 2015
Jeremy Brown became the head football coach at Mosley High School (in Florida) nearly three...
November 22, 2015
For years now, ultra-Orthodox Jews have been in charge of a public school district in...
November 22, 2015
When do you do when a campus preacher is yelling at women wearing yoga pants,...
November 19, 2015
The Texas Board of Education has long been a punchline for the rest of the...
November 18, 2015
Last week, I posted about a ceremonial "pinning" ceremony that takes place when nursing students...
November 18, 2015
A charter school in North Carolina has temporarily suspended all clubs just to prevent an...
November 12, 2015
For some reason, the Unicoi County Schools Board of Education (in Tennessee) has a Christian...
November 12, 2015
Some of my fondest memories from elementary school took place at the Scholastic Book Fair,...
November 12, 2015
The Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA), which sanctions high school sports in the state,...
November 12, 2015
Here's a horrible homework assignment for a seventh grade history class: The worksheet, Vocabulary Pictures:...
November 12, 2015
As the chatter about Houston's failed Equal Rights Ordinance starts to quiet down, the greater conversation about...
November 11, 2015
Last week, at Seitz Elementary School in Kansas, students were told they could leave class...
November 11, 2015
When nursing students at Colorado Mesa University graduate this December, they will go through a...
November 10, 2015
Remember when the Orange County schools in Florida allowed an outside group to passively distribute...
November 10, 2015
Back in August, Victoria (Australia) public schools finally scrapped their “special religious instruction” (SRI) classes...
November 10, 2015
Last week, Michael Nugent of Atheist Ireland was supposed to speak to students at an...
November 09, 2015
It seems like every time there's a new survey about religious demographics in this country,...
November 09, 2015
If you're a student at Wooster High School in Ohio (which educates kids from grades...
November 09, 2015
Betty Peters sits on the Alabama State Board of Education... which is frightening since she...
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