Education

October 2014

October 22, 2014
In August, we learned that Mountain Peak Elementary School and Longbranch Elementary School in Midlothian,...
October 22, 2014
I've been posting for weeks now about the numerous church/state violations taking place in Texas'...
October 22, 2014
The City Wire's Ryan Saylor writes about the Secular Student Alliance group at Van Buren...
October 21, 2014
Last year, I posted about the awful fire safety policy at one fundamentalist Christian college....
October 19, 2014
Earlier this month, Friendly Atheist featured a story about several public elementary schools in North Carolina that are teaching...
October 19, 2014
The growing community of Morinville (Alberta, Canada) has a burgeoning youth population; fully one-quarter of...
October 17, 2014
When advocacy organizations adopt motions to praise or -- more typically -- condemn this or...
October 17, 2014
Back in February, Kiera Feldman wrote an incredible story in New Republic about the sexual...
October 16, 2014
Earlier this year, the student newspaper at Ferris State University (in Michigan) published an opinion...
October 16, 2014
Alabama lawmakers are proposing a bill that would allow public school officials to join prayers...
October 16, 2014
The Rankin County School District in Mississippi has violated the law and promoted religion multiple...
October 15, 2014
Last month, I posted about a Christian monument in front of the newly-renovated Madison County...
October 14, 2014
A sukkah is a hut covered by things like palm leaves built for the Jewish...
October 14, 2014
Over the weekend, before Texas A&M lost to Ole Miss, the Aggies held not one,...
October 11, 2014
A seventh grader in the San Jacinto Unified School District in California was reprimanded by...
October 11, 2014
Abundant Life Academy in Eastern Virginia is a Christian boarding school for "struggling teens" and...
October 10, 2014
Just the other day, I posted a story about a young river rafting guide, Bethany...
October 10, 2014
Two years ago, Ernest Perce V (below, the Pennsylvania State Director of American Atheists at...
October 09, 2014
Todd Phelps wants to become the next mayor of Austin, Texas. Austin, if you're unfamiliar,...
October 09, 2014
A few weeks ago, I posted about the numerous church/state violations taking place at China...
October 08, 2014
The video below, part of The Atheist Voice series, discusses why you shouldn't say the...
October 08, 2014
The Williamson County Board of Education in Tennessee want to begin meetings with prayer, which...
October 08, 2014
When I was teaching math -- let's say it was trigonometry -- I always tried...
October 08, 2014
There is a deep anti-intellectual streak that runs through much of religious America, and it's...
October 08, 2014
Usually, when I hear stories of Christians being discriminated against, it's complete bullshit. They probably...
October 06, 2014
In a case that's lasted more than six years, there's finally a happy resolution in...
October 04, 2014
If you were to visit the website of the Catholic-based Chastity Project website (and I'm...
October 04, 2014
This is a painting called "Faith in America" by Donald Zolan: That image might have...
October 03, 2014
La Salle Academy in Providence, Rhode Island is one of those Catholic schools that's been...
October 02, 2014
If you want to teach the Bible at a public school, it has to be...
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