Charles L. Glenn

Just about everyone agrees that one reason religious belief and practice have flourished in the United States, in comparison with Western Europe, is that one state after another in the early republic ended the “establishment” of a preferred denomination and allowed all religious groups to . . . . Continue Reading »

Kingdom of the Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement by Mitchell L. Stevens Princeton University Press, 238 pages, $24.95 A recent government report documents a remarkable growth in the number of school-aged children now being educated at home and provides reassuring . . . . Continue Reading »

Independence won, George Washington faced a near-mutiny of his officers, unwilling to return to civilian life until their arrears of salary had been paid. Washington appeared unexpectedly at a meeting of the officers and gave an impassioned appeal to reason and moderation, to the men’s duty, . . . . Continue Reading »

Battleground: One Mother's Crusade, The Religious Right, and the Struggle for Control of our Classrooms  by stephen bates  poseidon press, 365 pages, $24 The 1983 protest by a group of parents in Hawkins County, Tennessee, against certain stories and themes in the public school reading . . . . Continue Reading »

Why Johnny Can’t Tell Right from Wrong: Moral Illiteracy and the Case for Character Education by william kilpatrick simon & schuster, 336 pages, $23 Reclaiming Our Schools: A Handbook on Teaching Character, Academics, and Discipline by edward a. wynne and kevin ryan foreword by james s. coleman . . . . Continue Reading »

An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and The Future of America by benjamin r. barber ballantine books, 370 pages, $20 “In the spring of 1988,” writes Benjamin Barber, a professor of political science at Rutgers, “[University] President Edward Bloustein gave a commencement . . . . Continue Reading »

In her lively new study based upon fourteen schools of education across the country, Rita Kramer skewers two quite distinct forms of folly.   One form of folly is the attempt by a few of the faculty whose classes she observed to make the classes occasions for political indoctrination so . . . . Continue Reading »

A priest laments the failings of the Episcopal . . . . Continue Reading »

For each of the past twenty-one years the Gallup Organization has conducted a nationwide poll on attitudes of the American public toward education. The latest results, like others in recent years, show an apparent contradiction between strong support for more parent choice among schools, and . . . . Continue Reading »