By: Nancy Flory – stream.org – March 21, 2018 Wednesday, March 21, is World Down Syndrome Day. And even while families with people of Down syndrome work to spread awareness of the genetic abnormality and celebrate their children, there are those who want to eliminate Down syndrome children altogether. But some moms say those who want to get rid of...

By: Kimberly Ross – redstate.com – March 11, 2018 As technology progresses, rationalizing away the destruction of the unborn becomes a more complicated task. In the not-too-distant past, humans were in the dark about the gestational period. Life’s beginnings were a complex mystery. This, perhaps, made it easier to choose abortion when faced with real-life dilemmas of time, money, and...

probe.org – Conference 2020 Students don’t have to “graduate from God” after high school! This total immersion week of worldview and apologetics, with lots of discussion and recreation built in, builds confidence that Christianity is true and it makes the most sense. National Student Mind Games Conference 2020 Camp Copass, Denton TX (Dallas/Ft. Worth area) 4:00 p.m. Sunday, June 21 to 9...

By: Stella Morabito – stellamorabito.net – February 23, 2018 I recently spoke at the Family Research Council about a new fad in mass public schooling called “social and emotional learning” (SEL.) Those who advocate for SEL claim the program will give children critical life skills, such as empathy, getting along with others, and making good decisions. An organization called the...

By: Wesley J. Smith – nationalreview.com – December 30, 2017 No human being should ever be treated as an object. Human exceptionalism holds that every one of us is inherently equal, both in moral value, and properly, under the law. Or to put it another way, no human being should ever be treated as an object, only and always a subject. Which is...

By: Wesley J. Smith – nationalreview.com – December 30, 2017 No human being should ever be treated as an object. Human exceptionalism holds that every one of us is inherently equal, both in moral value, and properly, under the law. Or to put it another way, no human being should ever be treated as an object, only and always a subject. Which is...

By: Sheriff David Clarke (Ret.) – townhall.com – January 06, 2018 When all 164 of Washington D.C. Frank W. Ballou Senior High School’s graduating seniors last year applied for and were accepted to college, the whole community—students, teachers, administrators, parents, and education reformers—had reason to celebrate the achievements of these obviously hard-working graduates. With a graduating class the school system...

One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatted about her favorite songs and TV shows, and I asked her what she likes to do with her friends. “We go to the mall,” she...

by Sen. Ben Sasse – dailysignal.com –  May 31, 2017 When I was little, mom would leave detailed lists of chores on the kitchen counter each summer morning for my siblings and me to complete before we could play baseball, ride bikes, or go swimming. And when I arrived at college, basically everyone with whom I became friends, a group...

Source: Embracing school choice doesn’t mean abandoning public education | Washington Examiner Betsy DeVos, President-elect Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of education, will begin her Senate confirmation hearings Tuesday evening. The nomination of DeVos, who supports school choice, has renewed the national discussion over the importance of opportunity in K-12 education. If you were to listen only to the national-level...