By
David E. Smith
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03.05.15
State Representative Peter Breen (R-Lombard) recently introduced HB 2689, also known as the Internet Screening in Public Libraries Act. This common sense legislation would help protect children and families from obscene and illegal material on the Internet and prevent public...
03.04.15
Amid the immigration debate in Washington, D.C., legislation is pending that will make it possible for families who are treated harshly over homeschooling to find refuge in the United States. The legislation was developed by HSLDA along with supportive members of Congress in the wake of the Romeike family’s asylum case.
12.11.14
The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round, just like the endless cycles of big, bad government programs to federalize preschool and daycare.
![A Failing Grade for Explicit Sex Education [VIDEO]](https://staging.illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Sexed.png "A Failing Grade for Explicit Sex Education [VIDEO]")
By
Monte Larrick
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12.09.14
Its time to raise the standards for sex education in Illinois. Recently, parents of 5th grade students at a West Side Chicago Public School (CPS) magnet school, were stunned and repelled by the binder of sex ed material that they...
12.05.14
Implementation of the Common Core State Standards Initiative has not gone well, supporters and critics alike now agree. Understanding why the education reform has been so rocky could aid future policy initiatives.
The inmates are running the asylum in Indy.
Until recently I had not heard of the National Federation of State High School Associations, or NFHS. This Indianapolis-based organization has, since 1920, developed and published playing rules for high-school sports in...
By
Laurie Higgins
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11.24.14
Before the dust has settled on a school sex ed controversy in Chicago, another outrageous sexuality “education” scandal has erupted, this time in Oregon.
School personnel and students as young as 11 years-old from 16 school districts were invited to the annual Adolescent Sexuality Conference in Seaside, Oregon.
By
Laurie Higgins
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11.18.14
Parents of 5th grade students at Andrew Jackson Language Academy, a West Side Chicago Public School magnet school, were stunned and repelled by the binder of sex ed material that they were shown recently during an after-school presentation about the upcoming sex ed class.
10.01.14
As we’ve noted before, when proponents of the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms try to make the case for the program, they often end up giving material to its opponents.
10.01.14
I became a math teacher by a circuitous route. My degree is in engineering. I spent five and a half years refurbishing nuclear submarines, and then I quit work to bear, rear, and eventually homeschool our three children.
By
Laurie Higgins
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09.11.14
Last Saturday, IFI posted a video from a news program that purported to demonstrate teaching math the Common Core way. This video had been and continues to be widely circulated on conservative websites like Daily Caller and shown on television...
By
Laurie Higgins
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09.08.14
In response to last week’s article on Banned Books Week, multiple homosexuality-affirming websites have been apoplectic about the five story ideas about homosexuality and gender confusion I mentioned, particularly the hypothetical picture book about a bird who experiences joy when,...
By
Laurie Higgins
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09.06.14
This should help all of us dullard parents clarify Common Core arithmetic for our confused little ones--you know, without forcing them to memorize those pesky math facts. (Remember: No chuckling, which would be mean to the teacher—maybe even bullying):
By
Laurie Higgins
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08.20.14
There are numerous problems affecting public education, problems so serious that many families are choosing either to homeschool their children or send them to private schools—options which very few families are able to implement or afford.
08.15.14
The highly acclaimed school standards called Common Core are becoming so unpopular that they may soon be politically untouchable...
