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Iowa Students, Remember to Dream Big

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley: For the students across Iowa heading to class in the new school year, remember to dream big.

Mary Mascher’s Lame Attempt to Ban Private Schools and Homeschooling

State Representative Mary Mascher (D-Iowa City) unsuccessfully offered a constitutional amendment to replace the Right to Keep and Bear Arms resolution, that passed in the Iowa House, that would have effectively ended private school and homeschooling in the state.

Ben Sasse on the Moral Hollowing of Schools

U.S. Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) in his new book, The Vanishing American Adult, notes the slide toward shallowness public education started on in the 1970s.

Fair Funding for Rural School Transportation

Jason Schultz: The Iowa Senate passed SF 455 which will start to bring equity to the funding levels between small and large geographic districts.

Caffeinated Thoughts Radio 5-24-14

Shane Vander Hart & Brian Myers talk to Robert Cramer, Republican candidate in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District Race, and discuss recent polls on marriage.

Honors Night Canceled at Middle School Because of Exclusive Nature

Archie R. Cole Middle School in East Greenwich, RI canceled their traditional Spring Honors night because school officials felt it was too exclusive.

Connecticut School Hands Anti-Second Amendment Worksheet to Students

Northeast Middle School in Bristol, CT gave its students a worksheet on the Second Amendment that can only reasonably be called indoctrination.
Melissa Harris-Perry

MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry: All Your Kids Belong To Us

MSNBC Host and Tulane professor Melissa Harris-Perry endorses collective responsibility and “ownership” of children that is harmful to parental rights.

Because A Few Parents Beat Their Kids, None Should Have Choice?

I wrote about this earlier today on another blog, but wanted to…

As the NEA Membership Declines They Demand a Leadership Role in Education Reform

The National Education Association is reinventing itself after they have had a…

American Principles Project & Preserve Innocence Iowa

As a contributor for Caffeinated Thoughts for some time, many of you…

Caffeinated Thoughts Interview: Independent Gubernatorial Candidate Jonathan Narcisse

The last time I sat down with former Des Moines School Board…

Home Schools and Taxpayer Money

The Des Moines Register ran a front page article this morning entitled…

Education Not Indoctrination Redux

Part of a well-rounded education would be studying government, social sciences, economics,…

The Story of Stuff: Indoctrination is Not Education

This may be one reason education is failing, but hey, don’t tell…

Rekha Basu, Remember, Darwinism Isn’t Fact

My wife brought Rekha Basu’s latest contribution to our bird cage’s lining…