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<div>The '''school choice''' movement seeks to improve education<ref>"Competition through school choice would improve education." [https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/01/27/the_speech Cal Thomas]</ref> <br />
by allowing parents the right to choose alternatives to [[public school]] for their children. Vouchers that enable parents to take their tax money and spend it on educational alternatives are often advocated to achieve this.<br />
It was initially championed by economist [[Milton Friedman]] and his wife Rose in the late 1960s.<br />
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As of 2007, school choice is available only in very limited ways and only to a tiny percentage of the population. [[Wisconsin]] and [[Ohio]] have had very small programs. [[Florida]] has a voucher program and also has an online alternative to brick and mortar public school, known as Florida Virtual School.<br />
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In addition to [[School vouchers|vouchers]] for [[private school]] and [[homeschooling]] options, along with [[charter school]]s (mainly in larger cities), some school districts offer a choice, for those who choose the public school system, in which public school their children will attend. This is sometimes called ''open enrollment''. Open enrollment can be limited to only schools within a district (the school district in Garland, Texas, has had open enrollment at the middle and high school levels for several decades) or may also cross over to neighboring districts (such as smaller ones neighboring larger ones). School districts in [[Florida]] have an open enrollment system although traditional [[dictatorship]] still applies to the [[school bus]] system, and those who choose to attend a school where buses are unavailable are required to find alternate transportation. In regions where open enrollment does not exist in public schools, a [[communist]] style dictatorship determines what school public school students will attend, which can be particularly a problem where homeschooling is prohibited or unfeasible and no good private schools exist or are affordable.<br />
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A ''[[Washington Times]]'' editorial explains:<br />
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:School choice is about as popular with teachers’ unions as crosses are at a convention of vampires. Big Labor only cares about maintaining the guarantee of lifetime employment without accountability based on performance. Nothing says “failure” more loudly than a bunch of students packing their book bags to head elsewhere.<ref>[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/28/crushing-school-choice/ EDITORIAL: Crushing school choice] - Administration plays the race card to appease teachers union</ref><br />
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Betsy DeVos, U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] Secretary of Education, has called the school choice movement an attempt to "empower" parents to find good schools for their children, whether they be traditional public schools in other neighborhoods, charter schools, virtual schools or private institutions.<ref> [http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/11/23/trump-devos-education/94344918/ Trump picks Betsy DeVos for education secretary post]</ref><br />
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A true film regarding impoverished single mother-turned-activist Virginia Walden and her campaign for school choice in the 2000s, named "Miss Virginia," was released in 2019.<ref>https://www.missvirginiamovie.com</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Charter school]]s<br />
*[[Homeschooling]]<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[https://www.prageru.com/video/why-good-teachers-want-school-choice/ Why Good Teachers Want School Choice]. ''[[PragerU]]''.<br />
*[https://www.prageru.com/video/why-special-needs-students-want-school-choice/ Why Special Needs Students Want School Choice]. ''[[PragerU]]''.<br />
*[https://www.prageru.com/video/school-choice-saved-my-life/ School Choice Saved My Life]. ''[[PragerU]]''.<br />
*[https://www.prageru.com/video/mother-knows-best-why-i-fight-for-school-choice/ Mother Knows Best: Why I Fight for School Choice]. [[PragerU]].<br />
*[https://school-choice-now.prageru.com/ School Choice Now]<br />
*[http://www.christianfaithpublishing.com/books/?book=escape-from-uncle-sams-plantation]. [[Book: Escape From Uncle Sam's Plantation]].<br />
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<div>The '''school choice''' movement seeks to improve education<ref>"Competition through school choice would improve education." [https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/01/27/the_speech Cal Thomas]</ref> <br />
by allowing parents the right to choose alternatives to [[public school]] for their children. Vouchers that enable parents to take their tax money and spend it on educational alternatives are often advocated to achieve this.<br />
It was initially championed by economist [[Milton Friedman]] and his wife Rose in the late 1960s.<br />
<br />
As of 2007, school choice is available only in very limited ways and only to a tiny percentage of the population. [[Wisconsin]] and [[Ohio]] have had very small programs. [[Florida]] has a voucher program and also has an online alternative to brick and mortar public school, known as Florida Virtual School.<br />
<br />
In addition to [[School vouchers|vouchers]] for [[private school]] and [[homeschooling]] options, along with [[charter school]]s (mainly in larger cities), some school districts offer a choice, for those who choose the public school system, in which public school their children will attend. This is sometimes called ''open enrollment''. Open enrollment can be limited to only schools within a district (the school district in Garland, Texas, has had open enrollment at the middle and high school levels for several decades) or may also cross over to neighboring districts (such as smaller ones neighboring larger ones). School districts in [[Florida]] have an open enrollment system although traditional [[dictatorship]] still applies to the [[school bus]] system, and those who choose to attend a school where buses are unavailable are required to find alternate transportation. In regions where open enrollment does not exist in public schools, a [[communist]] style dictatorship determines what school public school students will attend, which can be particularly a problem where homeschooling is prohibited or unfeasible and no good private schools exist or are affordable.<br />
<br />
A ''[[Washington Times]]'' editorial explains:<br />
<br />
:School choice is about as popular with teachers’ unions as crosses are at a convention of vampires. Big Labor only cares about maintaining the guarantee of lifetime employment without accountability based on performance. Nothing says “failure” more loudly than a bunch of students packing their book bags to head elsewhere.<ref>[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/28/crushing-school-choice/ EDITORIAL: Crushing school choice] - Administration plays the race card to appease teachers union</ref><br />
<br />
Betsy DeVos, U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] Secretary of Education, has called the school choice movement an attempt to "empower" parents to find good schools for their children, whether they be traditional public schools in other neighborhoods, charter schools, virtual schools or private institutions.<ref> [http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/11/23/trump-devos-education/94344918/ Trump picks Betsy DeVos for education secretary post]</ref><br />
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A true film regarding impoverished single mother-turned-activist Virginia Walden and her campaign for school choice in the 2000s, named "Miss Virginia," was released in 2019.<ref>https://www.missvirginiamovie.com</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
*[[Charter school]]s<br />
*[[Homeschooling]]<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[https://www.prageru.com/video/why-good-teachers-want-school-choice/ Why Good Teachers Want School Choice]. ''[[PragerU]]''.<br />
*[https://www.prageru.com/video/why-special-needs-students-want-school-choice/ Why Special Needs Students Want School Choice]. ''[[PragerU]]''.<br />
*[https://www.prageru.com/video/school-choice-saved-my-life/ School Choice Saved My Life]. ''[[PragerU]]''.<br />
*[https://www.prageru.com/video/mother-knows-best-why-i-fight-for-school-choice/ Mother Knows Best: Why I Fight for School Choice]. [[PragerU]].<br />
*[https://school-choice-now.prageru.com/ School Choice Now]<br />
*[http://www.christianfaithpublishing.com/books/?book=escape-from-uncle-sams-plantation]. [[Escape From Uncle Sam's Plantation]].<br />
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<div>[[File:Images.jpg|thumbnail|375px|right|The [[Creation Research Society]] is a professional organization of trained scientists and interested laypersons committed to the scientific study of special creation as given in the book of [[Genesis]]. They publish a quarterly peer-reviewed [[Creation Research Society Quarterly Journal|creation science journal]].<ref>[http://www.creationresearch.org/index.html The Creation Research Society]</ref> ]]<br />
'''Creation science''' is branch of [[science]] which sets out to show that [[supernatural]] [[creation]] of the material [[universe]] by [[God]] is consistent and compatible with the available scientific evidence. Being in the realm of [[origins science]], creation science is a historical science.<ref>[https://creation.com/its-not-science It's not science] by [[Creation Ministries International]]</ref><ref>[http://creationrevolution.com/2011/05/naturalism-doesn%E2%80%99t-work/ Naturalism Doesn’t Work]</ref><ref>[http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/ee/what-is-science What is science?]</ref> Most advocates of creation science believe the [[young earth creationism|earth is about 6,000 years old]], and they publish scientific evidence supporting this view (See, for example, [[Counterexamples to an Old Earth]]). The ongoing discovery of hundreds of [[living fossils]] correlates well with creation science but finds no answer in Darwinian theory.<ref>Thomas, B. 2015. 'Living Fossils' Point to Recent Creation. Acts & Facts. [https://www.icr.org/article/8974/268]</ref> In addition, scientists in the discipline of creation science state that the [[First Law of Thermodynamics|first law of thermodynamics]] and [[second law of thermodynamics]] argue against an eternal universe. They also claim that these laws point to the universe being created by [[God]].<ref>[http://godevidences.net/space/lawsofscience.php Evidences for God From Space&mdash;Laws of Science]</ref><ref>Thompson, Bert, [http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2329 So Long, Eternal Universe; Hello Beginning, Hello End!], 2001 (Apologetics Press)</ref><ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/AstroPhysicalSciences14.html</ref> Creation scientists also assert that naturalistic processes alone cannot account for the [[origin of life]] and that the [[Evolution|theory of evolution]] cannot account for the various kinds of animals and plants. Both evolutionary scientists and [[Young earth creationism|young earth creation]] scientists believe that [[speciation]] occurs; however, young earth creation scientists state that speciation generally occurs at a much faster rate than evolutionists believe is the case.<ref>[[Creation Ministries International]], [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3036/ Speciation: Questions and Answers]</ref> <br />
[[Creation Ministries International]], a leading [[Bible|biblical]] [[creation]] science organization, declared: <br />
{{cquote|Creationist research is having a global effect that is worrying the [[atheism|atheists]] and secularists of this world. They have had it all their own way for over a century but things are slowly changing. For almost twenty five years now, ''Journal of Creation'' has been publishing cutting-edge creationist research that has been fueling the war against [[evolution]], creating little fires all around the world, including [[Great Britain]]. <br />
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Atheist evangelist, Prof [[Richard Dawkins]], speaking at the 20th anniversary of the Edinburgh International Science Festival in April 2008, said the rise of creationism in British schools raised a serious problem for science teachers.<br />
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It is a very worrying trend,’ he said, ‘and I think a lot of it has come over from [[United States|America]] and [[Australia]].’<ref>https://creation.com/growth-of-creation-science-in-uk-worries-prof-dawkins</ref>}}<br />
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== Creation Science and Genetic Programs and Biological Information ==<br />
{{Main|Intelligent design}}<br />
[[Image:Foto Gitt.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Dr. [[Werner Gitt]]]]<br />
Scientists in the area of creation science and [[intelligent design]] advocates state the [[genetic code]], genetic programs, and biological [[information]] argue for an intelligent cause in regards to the origins question.<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html</ref><ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/infotheory.asp</ref><ref>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=118</ref><br />
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Dr. Werner Gitt, former director and Professor of Information Systems at the prestigious German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), wrote that human beings are the most complex [[information]] processing systems on earth. Dr. Gitt estimated that the human body processes thousands of times more information than all the world's libraries contain.<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html</ref> <br />
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Dr. Gitt has written several points regarding the origin of biological information:<br />
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#In his work ''In the Beginning Was Information'' Dr. Gitt stated that “There is no known law of nature, no known process and no known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in matter.”<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1484094</ref><br />
#Dr. Gitt argued that the [[density]] and complexity of [[DNA]] information is millions of times larger than mankind's current technology and this means a supremely intelligent being was the author of this information.<ref>http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm</ref> Similarly, Dr. [[Stephen C. Meyer]] in his 1996 essay ''The [[Origin of life|Origin of Life]] and the Death of [[Materialism]]'', wrote that "the information storage density of DNA, thanks in part to nucleosome spooling, is several trillion times that of our most advanced [[computer chip]]s.<ref>http://www.arn.org/docs/meyer/sm_origins.htm</ref><br />
#Gitt stated that the author of the information encoded into the DNA [[molecule]], who constructed the molecular biomachines to encode, decode and run the cells was supremely intelligent.<ref>http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm</ref><br />
#Dr. Gitt asserted that because information is a nonmaterial entity and does not originate from matter, the author of biological information must be nonmaterial ([[spirit]]).<ref>http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm</ref><br />
[[Image:Waltbrown.gif|left|thumb|200px|Dr. [[Walt Brown]]]]<br />
Dr. [[Walt Brown]] concurs in regards to the [[supernatural]] origin of biological information and states that the genetic material that controls the biological processes of life is coded information and that human experience tells us that [[codes]] are created only by the result of intelligence and not merely by processes of nature.<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html</ref> Dr. Brown also asserts that the "information stored in the genetic material of all life is a complex program. Therefore, it appears that an unfathomable intelligence created these genetic programs."<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html</ref> <br />
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To support his creation science view regarding the divine origin of genetic programs, Dr. Walt Brown cites the work of David Abel and Professor Jack Trevors who wrote the following:<br />
{{cquote|No matter how many "bits" of possible combinations it has, there is no reason to call it "information" if it doesn't at least have the potential of producing something useful. What kind of information produces function? In computer science, we call it a "program." Another name for computer software is an "algorithm." No man-made program comes close to the technical brilliance of even Mycoplasmal genetic algorithms. Mycoplasmas are the simplest known organism with the smallest known genome, to date. How was its genome and other living organisms' genomes programmed? - David L. Abel and Jack T. Trevors, “Three Subsets of Sequence Complexity and Their Relevance to Biopolymeric Information,” Theoretical Biology & Medical Modelling, Vol. 2, 11 August 2005, page 8<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1467742</ref><ref>http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1208958</ref>}}<br />
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See also:<br />
*[[:Template:Algorithms and information processing in biology|Algorithms and information processing in biology]]<br />
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== Creation Scientist Successfully Predicts Planetary Magnetic Fields ==<br />
Using a young earth creation model, physicist Russ Humphreys successfully predicted the strength of planetary magnetic fields while Darwinists failed.<ref>The Creation of Planetary Magnetic Fields, by D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D., December 1984, CRSQ Vol. 21, No. 3 [http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/21/21_3/21_3.html]</ref> Since Humphreys' first success with the Voyager II results on Uranus and Neptune,<ref>D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D. 1990. Beyond Neptune: Voyager II Supports Creation. Acts & Facts. 19 (5).[https://www.icr.org/article/beyond-neptune-voyager-ii-supports-creation]</ref> subsequent explorations yielded additional successes for Mercury.<ref>Thomas, B. 2011. Mercury's Fading Magnetic Field Fits Creation Model. Acts & Facts.[https://www.icr.org/article/mercurys-fading-magnetic-field-fits]</ref><br />
Dr. Donn Chapman invited Dr. Humphreys on the Origins TV series presenting his theory.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7manZ1WF-Lc&list=PLT8IFvbAQauhBny_7LoWat_ZrjXx159Y7&index=26 Magnetic Fields, part 1 of 2 with Dr. D. Russell Humphreys - Origins]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amDk5rgoThA&list=PLT8IFvbAQauhBny_7LoWat_ZrjXx159Y7&index=47 Magnetic Fields, part 2 of 2 with Dr. D. Russell Humphreys - Origins]</ref><br />
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Other recent successful predictions were that Pluto would show active geology, it's atmospheric escape rate would be too great for millions of years, and that Pluto's moons would not yield evidence for being formed from collision.<ref>"Will Pluto Surprise Scientists?" by David F. Coppedge, ''Creation Evolution Headlines,''July 9, 2015 [https://crev.info/2015/07/will-pluto-surprise-scientists/]</ref> This was confirmed by the New Horizons flyby.<ref>"“Overdose of Awesomeness”: New Pluto Images Show Unpredicted Activity", by David Coppedge, Creation Matters 2015 Vol. 20, Num. 5 [https://www.creationresearch.org/index.php/extensions/s5-creation-matters/cm-archive/creation-matters-2010-to-2019]</ref><br />
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== Effect of the growth of creation science and Christian apologetics ==<br />
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''See also:'' [[Atheism vs. Christian revival and Christian apologetics]] and [[Atheism vs. Christianity]]<br />
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The effect of evolutionism/[[atheism]]/[[agnosticism]] on the [[Western World]] and the world at large was mitigated by the growth of modern creationism and [[Christian apologetics]] in the latter half of the 20th century and today [[global creationism]], Christian apologetics and [[global Christianity]] is seeing rapid growth.<ref>[http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/28/thriving-christianity Thriving Christianity]</ref><ref>[http://www.brethrenassembly.com/Ebooks/Apol_001A.pdf Introduction To Integrated Christian Apologetics, Dr. Johnson C. Philip & Dr. Saneesh Cherian]</ref><ref>[http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2014/10/04/evolution-under-attack-from-muslims-and-evangelicals/ Evolution rejected by hundreds of millions of Muslims and evangelicals], ''Vancouver Sun'', October 4, 2014</ref><br />
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== Biblical creation publications ==<br />
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''See also:'' [[Biblical creation journals]]<br />
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Some prominent biblical [[creation]] publications are given below:<br />
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*[[Creation magazine]]<br />
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*[[Journal of Creation]] - Peer reviewed<br />
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*[[Creation Research Society Quarterly Journal]] - peer reviewed<br />
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*[[creation science site]]<br />
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==Creation Science and the Evolutionary Science Community==<br />
Creation science is considered as pseudoscience by the majority of the scientific community. It is also commonly rejected by [[Atheism|atheists]] as they generally hold the [[worldview]] of [[Naturalism (philosophy)|naturalism]]. Liberals reject Creation Science with the spurious pretext that it cannot be disproved ([[falsifiable|falsifiability]]) and therefore cannot be considered "[[science]]".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19991013122341/https://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/evolutionviews990816.html</ref><ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ13.html#wp2727001</ref> <br />
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However, Dr. [[Walt Brown]] argues that the field of creation science is scientific<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ13.html#wp2727001</ref> and the evolutionists' objections to creation science are due to their worldviews and preconceptions, rather than on the basis of scientific evidence or the scientific validity of the idea.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/news/scientific_american.asp</ref><br />
Also, [[Karl Popper]], a leading philosopher of science and originator of falsifiability as a criterion of demarcation of science from nonscience,<ref><br />
* http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/<br />
* http://www.discovery.org/a/3524</ref> stated that Darwinism is "not a testable scientific theory, but a [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]] research programme."<ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html</ref> Michael Ruse, a leading Darwinist and philosopher of science, conditionally acknowledged Popper's statement: "Since making this claim, Popper himself has modified his position somewhat; but, disclaimers aside, I suspect that even now he does not really believe that Darwinism in its modern form is genuinely falsifiable."<ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html</ref> However prominent evolutionist [[J. B. S. Haldane]], when asked what would falsify the theory of evolution, said "Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."<br />
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{{Creation vs. evolution}}<br />
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==See also ==<br />
*[[Bill Keith]], author of the Louisiana Balanced Treatment Act, struck down by U.S. Supreme Court<br />
*[[Creation vs. Evolution Videos]]<br />
*[[Creation vs. evolution debates]]<br />
*[[Creation]]<br />
*[[Creationism]]<br />
*[[Essay: Sharing your Christian/creationist videos on the internet]]<br />
*[[Christianity and Science]]<br />
*[[Theory of Evolution, Liberalism, Atheism, and Irrationality]]<br />
*[[Creationist contributions to science]]<br />
*[[Scriptural geologists]]<br />
*[[Counterexamples to an Old Earth]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://associationforcreation.org/ The International Association For Creation]<br />
*[http://creationnetwork.org/ The Creation Network]<br />
*[http://visitcreation.org/ The Big Map of Creation]<br />
*[https://creation.com/ Creation Ministries International]<br />
*[http://www.creationscience.com/ In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood] the website of Dr. [[Walt Brown]]<br />
*[http://www.creationresearch.org/ Creation Research Society]<br />
*[http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq.html Creation Research Society Quarterly Journal]<br />
*[http://www.answersingenesis.org/ Answers in Genesis]<br />
*[https://www.icr.org/ Institute for Creation Research]<br />
*[http://www.nwcreation.net/ NorthWest Creation Network]<br />
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==Notes and References==<br />
{{reflist|2}}<br />
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<div>[[File:Images.jpg|thumbnail|375px|right|The [[Creation Research Society]] is a professional organization of trained scientists and interested laypersons committed to the scientific study of special creation as given in the book of [[Genesis]]. They publish a quarterly peer-reviewed [[Creation Research Society Quarterly Journal|creation science journal]].<ref>[http://www.creationresearch.org/index.html The Creation Research Society]</ref> ]]<br />
'''Creation science''' is branch of [[science]] which sets out to show that [[supernatural]] [[creation]] of the material [[universe]] by [[God]] is consistent and compatible with the available scientific evidence. Being in the realm of [[origins science]], creation science is a historical science.<ref>[https://creation.com/its-not-science It's not science] by [[Creation Ministries International]]</ref><ref>[http://creationrevolution.com/2011/05/naturalism-doesn%E2%80%99t-work/ Naturalism Doesn’t Work]</ref><ref>[http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/ee/what-is-science What is science?]</ref> Most advocates of creation science believe the [[young earth creationism|earth is about 6,000 years old]], and they publish scientific evidence supporting this view (See, for example, [[Counterexamples to an Old Earth]]). The ongoing discovery of hundreds of [[living fossils]] correlates well with creation science but finds no answer in Darwinian theory.<ref>Thomas, B. 2015. 'Living Fossils' Point to Recent Creation. Acts & Facts. [https://www.icr.org/article/8974/268]</ref> In addition, scientists in the discipline of creation science state that the [[First Law of Thermodynamics|first law of thermodynamics]] and [[second law of thermodynamics]] argue against an eternal universe. They also claim that these laws point to the universe being created by [[God]].<ref>[http://godevidences.net/space/lawsofscience.php Evidences for God From Space&mdash;Laws of Science]</ref><ref>Thompson, Bert, [http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2329 So Long, Eternal Universe; Hello Beginning, Hello End!], 2001 (Apologetics Press)</ref><ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/AstroPhysicalSciences14.html</ref> Creation scientists also assert that naturalistic processes alone cannot account for the [[origin of life]] and that the [[Evolution|theory of evolution]] cannot account for the various kinds of animals and plants. Both evolutionary scientists and [[Young earth creationism|young earth creation]] scientists believe that [[speciation]] occurs; however, young earth creation scientists state that speciation generally occurs at a much faster rate than evolutionists believe is the case.<ref>[[Creation Ministries International]], [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3036/ Speciation: Questions and Answers]</ref> <br />
[[Creation Ministries International]], a leading [[Bible|biblical]] [[creation]] science organization, declared: <br />
{{cquote|Creationist research is having a global effect that is worrying the [[atheism|atheists]] and secularists of this world. They have had it all their own way for over a century but things are slowly changing. For almost twenty five years now, ''Journal of Creation'' has been publishing cutting-edge creationist research that has been fueling the war against [[evolution]], creating little fires all around the world, including [[Great Britain]]. <br />
<br />
Atheist evangelist, Prof [[Richard Dawkins]], speaking at the 20th anniversary of the Edinburgh International Science Festival in April 2008, said the rise of creationism in British schools raised a serious problem for science teachers.<br />
<br />
It is a very worrying trend,’ he said, ‘and I think a lot of it has come over from [[United States|America]] and [[Australia]].’<ref>https://creation.com/growth-of-creation-science-in-uk-worries-prof-dawkins</ref>}}<br />
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== Creation Science and Genetic Programs and Biological Information ==<br />
{{Main|Intelligent design}}<br />
[[Image:Foto Gitt.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Dr. [[Werner Gitt]]]]<br />
Scientists in the area of creation science and [[intelligent design]] advocates state the [[genetic code]], genetic programs, and biological [[information]] argue for an intelligent cause in regards to the origins question.<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html</ref><ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/infotheory.asp</ref><ref>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=118</ref><br />
<br />
Dr. Werner Gitt, former director and Professor of Information Systems at the prestigious German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), wrote that human beings are the most complex [[information]] processing systems on earth. Dr. Gitt estimated that the human body processes thousands of times more information than all the world's libraries contain.<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html</ref> <br />
<br />
Dr. Gitt has written several points regarding the origin of biological information:<br />
<br />
#In his work ''In the Beginning Was Information'' Dr. Gitt stated that “There is no known law of nature, no known process and no known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in matter.”<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1484094</ref><br />
#Dr. Gitt argued that the [[density]] and complexity of [[DNA]] information is millions of times larger than mankind's current technology and this means a supremely intelligent being was the author of this information.<ref>http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm</ref> Similarly, Dr. [[Stephen C. Meyer]] in his 1996 essay ''The [[Origin of life|Origin of Life]] and the Death of [[Materialism]]'', wrote that "the information storage density of DNA, thanks in part to nucleosome spooling, is several trillion times that of our most advanced [[computer chip]]s.<ref>http://www.arn.org/docs/meyer/sm_origins.htm</ref><br />
#Gitt stated that the author of the information encoded into the DNA [[molecule]], who constructed the molecular biomachines to encode, decode and run the cells was supremely intelligent.<ref>http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm</ref><br />
#Dr. Gitt asserted that because information is a nonmaterial entity and does not originate from matter, the author of biological information must be nonmaterial ([[spirit]]).<ref>http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm</ref><br />
[[Image:Waltbrown.gif|left|thumb|200px|Dr. [[Walt Brown]]]]<br />
Dr. [[Walt Brown]] concurs in regards to the [[supernatural]] origin of biological information and states that the genetic material that controls the biological processes of life is coded information and that human experience tells us that [[codes]] are created only by the result of intelligence and not merely by processes of nature.<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html</ref> Dr. Brown also asserts that the "information stored in the genetic material of all life is a complex program. Therefore, it appears that an unfathomable intelligence created these genetic programs."<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html</ref> <br />
<br />
To support his creation science view regarding the divine origin of genetic programs, Dr. Walt Brown cites the work of David Abel and Professor Jack Trevors who wrote the following:<br />
{{cquote|No matter how many "bits" of possible combinations it has, there is no reason to call it "information" if it doesn't at least have the potential of producing something useful. What kind of information produces function? In computer science, we call it a "program." Another name for computer software is an "algorithm." No man-made program comes close to the technical brilliance of even Mycoplasmal genetic algorithms. Mycoplasmas are the simplest known organism with the smallest known genome, to date. How was its genome and other living organisms' genomes programmed? - David L. Abel and Jack T. Trevors, “Three Subsets of Sequence Complexity and Their Relevance to Biopolymeric Information,” Theoretical Biology & Medical Modelling, Vol. 2, 11 August 2005, page 8<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1467742</ref><ref>http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1208958</ref>}}<br />
<br />
See also:<br />
*[[:Template:Algorithms and information processing in biology|Algorithms and information processing in biology]]<br />
<br />
== Creation Scientist Successfully Predicts Planetary Magnetic Fields ==<br />
Using a young earth creation model, physicist Russ Humphreys successfully predicted the strength of planetary magnetic fields while Darwinists failed.<ref>The Creation of Planetary Magnetic Fields, by D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D., December 1984, CRSQ Vol. 21, No. 3 [http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/21/21_3/21_3.html]</ref> Since Humphreys' first success with the Voyager II results on Uranus and Neptune,<ref>D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D. 1990. Beyond Neptune: Voyager II Supports Creation. Acts & Facts. 19 (5).[https://www.icr.org/article/beyond-neptune-voyager-ii-supports-creation]</ref> subsequent explorations yielded additional successes for Mercury.<ref>Thomas, B. 2011. Mercury's Fading Magnetic Field Fits Creation Model. Acts & Facts.[https://www.icr.org/article/mercurys-fading-magnetic-field-fits]</ref><br />
Dr. Donn Chapman invited Dr. Humphreys on the Origins TV series presenting his theory.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7manZ1WF-Lc&list=PLT8IFvbAQauhBny_7LoWat_ZrjXx159Y7&index=26 Magnetic Fields, part 1 of 2 with Dr. D. Russell Humphreys - Origins]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amDk5rgoThA&list=PLT8IFvbAQauhBny_7LoWat_ZrjXx159Y7&index=47 Magnetic Fields, part 2 of 2 with Dr. D. Russell Humphreys - Origins]</ref><br />
<br />
Other recent successful predictions were that Pluto would show active geology, it's atmospheric escape rate would be too great for millions of years, and that Pluto's moons would not yield evidence for being formed from collision.<ref>"Will Pluto Surprise Scientists?" by David F. Coppedge, ''Creation Evolution Headlines,''July 9, 2015 [https://crev.info/2015/07/will-pluto-surprise-scientists/]</ref> This was confirmed by the New Horizons flyby.<ref>"“Overdose of Awesomeness”: New Pluto Images Show Unpredicted Activity", by David Coppedge, Creation Matters 2015 Vol. 20, Num. 5 [https://www.creationresearch.org/index.php/extensions/s5-creation-matters/cm-archive/creation-matters-2010-to-2019]</ref><br />
<br />
== Effect of the growth of creation science and Christian apologetics ==<br />
<br />
''See also:'' [[Atheism vs. Christian revival and Christian apologetics]] and [[Atheism vs. Christianity]]<br />
<br />
The effect of evolutionism/[[atheism]]/[[agnosticism]] on the [[Western World]] and the world at large was mitigated by the growth of modern creationism and [[Christian apologetics]] in the latter half of the 20th century and today [[global creationism]], Christian apologetics and [[global Christianity]] is seeing rapid growth.<ref>[http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/28/thriving-christianity Thriving Christianity]</ref><ref>[http://www.brethrenassembly.com/Ebooks/Apol_001A.pdf Introduction To Integrated Christian Apologetics, Dr. Johnson C. Philip & Dr. Saneesh Cherian]</ref><ref>[http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2014/10/04/evolution-under-attack-from-muslims-and-evangelicals/ Evolution rejected by hundreds of millions of Muslims and evangelicals], ''Vancouver Sun'', October 4, 2014</ref><br />
<br />
== Biblical creation publications ==<br />
<br />
''See also:'' [[Biblical creation journals]]<br />
<br />
Some prominent biblical [[creation]] publications are given below:<br />
<br />
*[[Creation magazine]]<br />
<br />
*[[Journal of Creation]] - Peer reviewed<br />
<br />
*[[Creation Research Society Quarterly Journal]] - peer reviewed<br />
<br />
*[[www.creationsciencesite]]<br />
<br />
==Creation Science and the Evolutionary Science Community==<br />
Creation science is considered as pseudoscience by the majority of the scientific community. It is also commonly rejected by [[Atheism|atheists]] as they generally hold the [[worldview]] of [[Naturalism (philosophy)|naturalism]]. Liberals reject Creation Science with the spurious pretext that it cannot be disproved ([[falsifiable|falsifiability]]) and therefore cannot be considered "[[science]]".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19991013122341/https://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/evolutionviews990816.html</ref><ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ13.html#wp2727001</ref> <br />
<br />
However, Dr. [[Walt Brown]] argues that the field of creation science is scientific<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ13.html#wp2727001</ref> and the evolutionists' objections to creation science are due to their worldviews and preconceptions, rather than on the basis of scientific evidence or the scientific validity of the idea.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/news/scientific_american.asp</ref><br />
Also, [[Karl Popper]], a leading philosopher of science and originator of falsifiability as a criterion of demarcation of science from nonscience,<ref><br />
* http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/<br />
* http://www.discovery.org/a/3524</ref> stated that Darwinism is "not a testable scientific theory, but a [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]] research programme."<ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html</ref> Michael Ruse, a leading Darwinist and philosopher of science, conditionally acknowledged Popper's statement: "Since making this claim, Popper himself has modified his position somewhat; but, disclaimers aside, I suspect that even now he does not really believe that Darwinism in its modern form is genuinely falsifiable."<ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html</ref> However prominent evolutionist [[J. B. S. Haldane]], when asked what would falsify the theory of evolution, said "Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."<br />
<br />
{{Creation vs. evolution}}<br />
<br />
==See also ==<br />
*[[Bill Keith]], author of the Louisiana Balanced Treatment Act, struck down by U.S. Supreme Court<br />
*[[Creation vs. Evolution Videos]]<br />
*[[Creation vs. evolution debates]]<br />
*[[Creation]]<br />
*[[Creationism]]<br />
*[[Essay: Sharing your Christian/creationist videos on the internet]]<br />
*[[Christianity and Science]]<br />
*[[Theory of Evolution, Liberalism, Atheism, and Irrationality]]<br />
*[[Creationist contributions to science]]<br />
*[[Scriptural geologists]]<br />
*[[Counterexamples to an Old Earth]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
*[http://associationforcreation.org/ The International Association For Creation]<br />
*[http://creationnetwork.org/ The Creation Network]<br />
*[http://visitcreation.org/ The Big Map of Creation]<br />
*[https://creation.com/ Creation Ministries International]<br />
*[http://www.creationscience.com/ In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood] the website of Dr. [[Walt Brown]]<br />
*[http://www.creationresearch.org/ Creation Research Society]<br />
*[http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq.html Creation Research Society Quarterly Journal]<br />
*[http://www.answersingenesis.org/ Answers in Genesis]<br />
*[https://www.icr.org/ Institute for Creation Research]<br />
*[http://www.nwcreation.net/ NorthWest Creation Network]<br />
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==Notes and References==<br />
{{reflist|2}}<br />
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[[Category:Science]]<br />
[[Category:Creation science]]</div>Edtemplehttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Creation_science&diff=1631419Creation science2020-03-23T22:43:11Z<p>Edtemple: /* Biblical creation publications */</p>
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<div>[[File:Images.jpg|thumbnail|375px|right|The [[Creation Research Society]] is a professional organization of trained scientists and interested laypersons committed to the scientific study of special creation as given in the book of [[Genesis]]. They publish a quarterly peer-reviewed [[Creation Research Society Quarterly Journal|creation science journal]].<ref>[http://www.creationresearch.org/index.html The Creation Research Society]</ref> ]]<br />
'''Creation science''' is branch of [[science]] which sets out to show that [[supernatural]] [[creation]] of the material [[universe]] by [[God]] is consistent and compatible with the available scientific evidence. Being in the realm of [[origins science]], creation science is a historical science.<ref>[https://creation.com/its-not-science It's not science] by [[Creation Ministries International]]</ref><ref>[http://creationrevolution.com/2011/05/naturalism-doesn%E2%80%99t-work/ Naturalism Doesn’t Work]</ref><ref>[http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/ee/what-is-science What is science?]</ref> Most advocates of creation science believe the [[young earth creationism|earth is about 6,000 years old]], and they publish scientific evidence supporting this view (See, for example, [[Counterexamples to an Old Earth]]). The ongoing discovery of hundreds of [[living fossils]] correlates well with creation science but finds no answer in Darwinian theory.<ref>Thomas, B. 2015. 'Living Fossils' Point to Recent Creation. Acts & Facts. [https://www.icr.org/article/8974/268]</ref> In addition, scientists in the discipline of creation science state that the [[First Law of Thermodynamics|first law of thermodynamics]] and [[second law of thermodynamics]] argue against an eternal universe. They also claim that these laws point to the universe being created by [[God]].<ref>[http://godevidences.net/space/lawsofscience.php Evidences for God From Space&mdash;Laws of Science]</ref><ref>Thompson, Bert, [http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2329 So Long, Eternal Universe; Hello Beginning, Hello End!], 2001 (Apologetics Press)</ref><ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/AstroPhysicalSciences14.html</ref> Creation scientists also assert that naturalistic processes alone cannot account for the [[origin of life]] and that the [[Evolution|theory of evolution]] cannot account for the various kinds of animals and plants. Both evolutionary scientists and [[Young earth creationism|young earth creation]] scientists believe that [[speciation]] occurs; however, young earth creation scientists state that speciation generally occurs at a much faster rate than evolutionists believe is the case.<ref>[[Creation Ministries International]], [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3036/ Speciation: Questions and Answers]</ref> <br />
[[Creation Ministries International]], a leading [[Bible|biblical]] [[creation]] science organization, declared: <br />
{{cquote|Creationist research is having a global effect that is worrying the [[atheism|atheists]] and secularists of this world. They have had it all their own way for over a century but things are slowly changing. For almost twenty five years now, ''Journal of Creation'' has been publishing cutting-edge creationist research that has been fueling the war against [[evolution]], creating little fires all around the world, including [[Great Britain]]. <br />
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Atheist evangelist, Prof [[Richard Dawkins]], speaking at the 20th anniversary of the Edinburgh International Science Festival in April 2008, said the rise of creationism in British schools raised a serious problem for science teachers.<br />
<br />
It is a very worrying trend,’ he said, ‘and I think a lot of it has come over from [[United States|America]] and [[Australia]].’<ref>https://creation.com/growth-of-creation-science-in-uk-worries-prof-dawkins</ref>}}<br />
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== Creation Science and Genetic Programs and Biological Information ==<br />
{{Main|Intelligent design}}<br />
[[Image:Foto Gitt.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Dr. [[Werner Gitt]]]]<br />
Scientists in the area of creation science and [[intelligent design]] advocates state the [[genetic code]], genetic programs, and biological [[information]] argue for an intelligent cause in regards to the origins question.<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html</ref><ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/infotheory.asp</ref><ref>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=118</ref><br />
<br />
Dr. Werner Gitt, former director and Professor of Information Systems at the prestigious German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), wrote that human beings are the most complex [[information]] processing systems on earth. Dr. Gitt estimated that the human body processes thousands of times more information than all the world's libraries contain.<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html</ref> <br />
<br />
Dr. Gitt has written several points regarding the origin of biological information:<br />
<br />
#In his work ''In the Beginning Was Information'' Dr. Gitt stated that “There is no known law of nature, no known process and no known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in matter.”<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1484094</ref><br />
#Dr. Gitt argued that the [[density]] and complexity of [[DNA]] information is millions of times larger than mankind's current technology and this means a supremely intelligent being was the author of this information.<ref>http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm</ref> Similarly, Dr. [[Stephen C. Meyer]] in his 1996 essay ''The [[Origin of life|Origin of Life]] and the Death of [[Materialism]]'', wrote that "the information storage density of DNA, thanks in part to nucleosome spooling, is several trillion times that of our most advanced [[computer chip]]s.<ref>http://www.arn.org/docs/meyer/sm_origins.htm</ref><br />
#Gitt stated that the author of the information encoded into the DNA [[molecule]], who constructed the molecular biomachines to encode, decode and run the cells was supremely intelligent.<ref>http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm</ref><br />
#Dr. Gitt asserted that because information is a nonmaterial entity and does not originate from matter, the author of biological information must be nonmaterial ([[spirit]]).<ref>http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm</ref><br />
[[Image:Waltbrown.gif|left|thumb|200px|Dr. [[Walt Brown]]]]<br />
Dr. [[Walt Brown]] concurs in regards to the [[supernatural]] origin of biological information and states that the genetic material that controls the biological processes of life is coded information and that human experience tells us that [[codes]] are created only by the result of intelligence and not merely by processes of nature.<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html</ref> Dr. Brown also asserts that the "information stored in the genetic material of all life is a complex program. Therefore, it appears that an unfathomable intelligence created these genetic programs."<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html</ref> <br />
<br />
To support his creation science view regarding the divine origin of genetic programs, Dr. Walt Brown cites the work of David Abel and Professor Jack Trevors who wrote the following:<br />
{{cquote|No matter how many "bits" of possible combinations it has, there is no reason to call it "information" if it doesn't at least have the potential of producing something useful. What kind of information produces function? In computer science, we call it a "program." Another name for computer software is an "algorithm." No man-made program comes close to the technical brilliance of even Mycoplasmal genetic algorithms. Mycoplasmas are the simplest known organism with the smallest known genome, to date. How was its genome and other living organisms' genomes programmed? - David L. Abel and Jack T. Trevors, “Three Subsets of Sequence Complexity and Their Relevance to Biopolymeric Information,” Theoretical Biology & Medical Modelling, Vol. 2, 11 August 2005, page 8<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1467742</ref><ref>http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1208958</ref>}}<br />
<br />
See also:<br />
*[[:Template:Algorithms and information processing in biology|Algorithms and information processing in biology]]<br />
<br />
== Creation Scientist Successfully Predicts Planetary Magnetic Fields ==<br />
Using a young earth creation model, physicist Russ Humphreys successfully predicted the strength of planetary magnetic fields while Darwinists failed.<ref>The Creation of Planetary Magnetic Fields, by D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D., December 1984, CRSQ Vol. 21, No. 3 [http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/21/21_3/21_3.html]</ref> Since Humphreys' first success with the Voyager II results on Uranus and Neptune,<ref>D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D. 1990. Beyond Neptune: Voyager II Supports Creation. Acts & Facts. 19 (5).[https://www.icr.org/article/beyond-neptune-voyager-ii-supports-creation]</ref> subsequent explorations yielded additional successes for Mercury.<ref>Thomas, B. 2011. Mercury's Fading Magnetic Field Fits Creation Model. Acts & Facts.[https://www.icr.org/article/mercurys-fading-magnetic-field-fits]</ref><br />
Dr. Donn Chapman invited Dr. Humphreys on the Origins TV series presenting his theory.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7manZ1WF-Lc&list=PLT8IFvbAQauhBny_7LoWat_ZrjXx159Y7&index=26 Magnetic Fields, part 1 of 2 with Dr. D. Russell Humphreys - Origins]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amDk5rgoThA&list=PLT8IFvbAQauhBny_7LoWat_ZrjXx159Y7&index=47 Magnetic Fields, part 2 of 2 with Dr. D. Russell Humphreys - Origins]</ref><br />
<br />
Other recent successful predictions were that Pluto would show active geology, it's atmospheric escape rate would be too great for millions of years, and that Pluto's moons would not yield evidence for being formed from collision.<ref>"Will Pluto Surprise Scientists?" by David F. Coppedge, ''Creation Evolution Headlines,''July 9, 2015 [https://crev.info/2015/07/will-pluto-surprise-scientists/]</ref> This was confirmed by the New Horizons flyby.<ref>"“Overdose of Awesomeness”: New Pluto Images Show Unpredicted Activity", by David Coppedge, Creation Matters 2015 Vol. 20, Num. 5 [https://www.creationresearch.org/index.php/extensions/s5-creation-matters/cm-archive/creation-matters-2010-to-2019]</ref><br />
<br />
== Effect of the growth of creation science and Christian apologetics ==<br />
<br />
''See also:'' [[Atheism vs. Christian revival and Christian apologetics]] and [[Atheism vs. Christianity]]<br />
<br />
The effect of evolutionism/[[atheism]]/[[agnosticism]] on the [[Western World]] and the world at large was mitigated by the growth of modern creationism and [[Christian apologetics]] in the latter half of the 20th century and today [[global creationism]], Christian apologetics and [[global Christianity]] is seeing rapid growth.<ref>[http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/28/thriving-christianity Thriving Christianity]</ref><ref>[http://www.brethrenassembly.com/Ebooks/Apol_001A.pdf Introduction To Integrated Christian Apologetics, Dr. Johnson C. Philip & Dr. Saneesh Cherian]</ref><ref>[http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2014/10/04/evolution-under-attack-from-muslims-and-evangelicals/ Evolution rejected by hundreds of millions of Muslims and evangelicals], ''Vancouver Sun'', October 4, 2014</ref><br />
<br />
== Biblical creation publications ==<br />
<br />
''See also:'' [[Biblical creation journals]]<br />
<br />
Some prominent biblical [[creation]] publications are given below:<br />
<br />
*[[Creation magazine]]<br />
<br />
*[[Journal of Creation]] - Peer reviewed<br />
<br />
*[[Creation Research Society Quarterly Journal]] - peer reviewed<br />
<br />
*[[www.creationsciencesite.com]]<br />
<br />
==Creation Science and the Evolutionary Science Community==<br />
Creation science is considered as pseudoscience by the majority of the scientific community. It is also commonly rejected by [[Atheism|atheists]] as they generally hold the [[worldview]] of [[Naturalism (philosophy)|naturalism]]. Liberals reject Creation Science with the spurious pretext that it cannot be disproved ([[falsifiable|falsifiability]]) and therefore cannot be considered "[[science]]".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19991013122341/https://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/evolutionviews990816.html</ref><ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ13.html#wp2727001</ref> <br />
<br />
However, Dr. [[Walt Brown]] argues that the field of creation science is scientific<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ13.html#wp2727001</ref> and the evolutionists' objections to creation science are due to their worldviews and preconceptions, rather than on the basis of scientific evidence or the scientific validity of the idea.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/news/scientific_american.asp</ref><br />
Also, [[Karl Popper]], a leading philosopher of science and originator of falsifiability as a criterion of demarcation of science from nonscience,<ref><br />
* http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/<br />
* http://www.discovery.org/a/3524</ref> stated that Darwinism is "not a testable scientific theory, but a [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]] research programme."<ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html</ref> Michael Ruse, a leading Darwinist and philosopher of science, conditionally acknowledged Popper's statement: "Since making this claim, Popper himself has modified his position somewhat; but, disclaimers aside, I suspect that even now he does not really believe that Darwinism in its modern form is genuinely falsifiable."<ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html</ref> However prominent evolutionist [[J. B. S. Haldane]], when asked what would falsify the theory of evolution, said "Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."<br />
<br />
{{Creation vs. evolution}}<br />
<br />
==See also ==<br />
*[[Bill Keith]], author of the Louisiana Balanced Treatment Act, struck down by U.S. Supreme Court<br />
*[[Creation vs. Evolution Videos]]<br />
*[[Creation vs. evolution debates]]<br />
*[[Creation]]<br />
*[[Creationism]]<br />
*[[Essay: Sharing your Christian/creationist videos on the internet]]<br />
*[[Christianity and Science]]<br />
*[[Theory of Evolution, Liberalism, Atheism, and Irrationality]]<br />
*[[Creationist contributions to science]]<br />
*[[Scriptural geologists]]<br />
*[[Counterexamples to an Old Earth]]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
*[http://associationforcreation.org/ The International Association For Creation]<br />
*[http://creationnetwork.org/ The Creation Network]<br />
*[http://visitcreation.org/ The Big Map of Creation]<br />
*[https://creation.com/ Creation Ministries International]<br />
*[http://www.creationscience.com/ In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood] the website of Dr. [[Walt Brown]]<br />
*[http://www.creationresearch.org/ Creation Research Society]<br />
*[http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq.html Creation Research Society Quarterly Journal]<br />
*[http://www.answersingenesis.org/ Answers in Genesis]<br />
*[https://www.icr.org/ Institute for Creation Research]<br />
*[http://www.nwcreation.net/ NorthWest Creation Network]<br />
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==Notes and References==<br />
{{reflist|2}}<br />
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[[Category:Creation science]]</div>Edtemplehttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Drudge_Report_alternatives&diff=1614733Drudge Report alternatives2020-01-19T03:15:34Z<p>Edtemple: </p>
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<div>The [[Drudge Report]] has become anti-[[Donald Trump]] and the backlash has caused alternatives to spring up and [[Matt Drudge]]'s website is bleeding traffic (the [[conservative]] and [[right-wing]] alternatives to the Drudge Report are the [[Dan Bongino|Bongino]] Report, NewsAmmo, Rantingly, Liberty Daily, [[Whatfinger News]], [[Gab]] Trends and and [[Infogalactic]] News).<ref>[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://bongino.com/introducing-the-bongino-report/ Introducing the Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HpiE1ZTuE Anti-Trump Turncoat Drudge BLEEDS Viewers as New Pro-Trump Sites SURGE!!!]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-so-mad-at-matt-drudge-theyre-trying-to-make-a-conservative-alternative-to-his-site Trump Fans Are So Mad at Matt Drudge They’re Trying to Make a MAGA Rival to His ‘Left-Wing’ Site]</ref><br />
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== Drudge Report alternatives ==<br />
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*[http://zenith.news/ Zenith News @znews ] <br />
*[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]<br />
*[https://newsammo.com/ NewsAmmo]<br />
*[https://www.citizenfreepress.com/ Citizen Free Press]<br />
*[https://news.infogalactic.com/ Infogalactic News]<br />
*[https://trends.gab.com/ Gab Trends]<br />
*[https://thelibertydaily.com/ The Liberty Daily]<br />
*[https://www.whatfinger.com/ WhatFinger News]<br />
*[https://rantingly.com/ Rantingly]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33599-now-anti-trump-drudge-losing-traffic-to-anti-establishment-site-whatfinger Now-anti-Trump Drudge Losing Traffic to Anti-establishment Site Whatfinger], ''New American''<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Conservative Media]]<br />
[[Category:Websites]]<br />
*5. [[Zenith.news]]</div>Edtemplehttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Drudge_Report_alternatives&diff=1614732Drudge Report alternatives2020-01-19T03:15:05Z<p>Edtemple: </p>
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<div>The [[Drudge Report]] has become anti-[[Donald Trump]] and the backlash has caused alternatives to spring up and [[Matt Drudge]]'s website is bleeding traffic (the [[conservative]] and [[right-wing]] alternatives to the Drudge Report are the [[Dan Bongino|Bongino]] Report, NewsAmmo, Rantingly, Liberty Daily, [[Whatfinger News]], [[Gab]] Trends and and [[Infogalactic]] News).<ref>[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://bongino.com/introducing-the-bongino-report/ Introducing the Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HpiE1ZTuE Anti-Trump Turncoat Drudge BLEEDS Viewers as New Pro-Trump Sites SURGE!!!]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-so-mad-at-matt-drudge-theyre-trying-to-make-a-conservative-alternative-to-his-site Trump Fans Are So Mad at Matt Drudge They’re Trying to Make a MAGA Rival to His ‘Left-Wing’ Site]</ref><br />
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== Drudge Report alternatives ==<br />
<br />
<br />
*[http://zenith.news/ Zenith News @znews ] <br />
*[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]<br />
*[https://newsammo.com/ NewsAmmo]<br />
*[https://www.citizenfreepress.com/ Citizen Free Press]<br />
*[https://news.infogalactic.com/ Infogalactic News]<br />
*[https://trends.gab.com/ Gab Trends]<br />
*[https://thelibertydaily.com/ The Liberty Daily]<br />
*[https://www.whatfinger.com/ WhatFinger News]<br />
*[https://rantingly.com/ Rantingly]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33599-now-anti-trump-drudge-losing-traffic-to-anti-establishment-site-whatfinger Now-anti-Trump Drudge Losing Traffic to Anti-establishment Site Whatfinger], ''New American''<br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
[[Category:Conservative Media]]<br />
[[Category:Websites]]<br />
*5.[[Zenith.news]]</div>Edtemplehttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Drudge_Report_alternatives&diff=1614731Drudge Report alternatives2020-01-19T03:14:28Z<p>Edtemple: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Drudge Report]] has become anti-[[Donald Trump]] and the backlash has caused alternatives to spring up and [[Matt Drudge]]'s website is bleeding traffic (the [[conservative]] and [[right-wing]] alternatives to the Drudge Report are the [[Dan Bongino|Bongino]] Report, NewsAmmo, Rantingly, Liberty Daily, [[Whatfinger News]], [[Gab]] Trends and and [[Infogalactic]] News).<ref>[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://bongino.com/introducing-the-bongino-report/ Introducing the Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HpiE1ZTuE Anti-Trump Turncoat Drudge BLEEDS Viewers as New Pro-Trump Sites SURGE!!!]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-so-mad-at-matt-drudge-theyre-trying-to-make-a-conservative-alternative-to-his-site Trump Fans Are So Mad at Matt Drudge They’re Trying to Make a MAGA Rival to His ‘Left-Wing’ Site]</ref><br />
<br />
== Drudge Report alternatives ==<br />
<br />
<br />
*[http://zenith.news/ Zenith News @znews ] <br />
*[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]<br />
*[https://newsammo.com/ NewsAmmo]<br />
*[https://www.citizenfreepress.com/ Citizen Free Press]<br />
*[https://news.infogalactic.com/ Infogalactic News]<br />
*[https://trends.gab.com/ Gab Trends]<br />
*[https://thelibertydaily.com/ The Liberty Daily]<br />
*[https://www.whatfinger.com/ WhatFinger News]<br />
*[https://rantingly.com/ Rantingly]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33599-now-anti-trump-drudge-losing-traffic-to-anti-establishment-site-whatfinger Now-anti-Trump Drudge Losing Traffic to Anti-establishment Site Whatfinger], ''New American''<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
[[Category:Conservative Media]]<br />
[[Category:Websites]]<br />
[[Zenith.news]]</div>Edtemplehttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Drudge_Report_alternatives&diff=1614730Drudge Report alternatives2020-01-19T03:13:44Z<p>Edtemple: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Drudge Report]] has become anti-[[Donald Trump]] and the backlash has caused alternatives to spring up and [[Matt Drudge]]'s website is bleeding traffic (the [[conservative]] and [[right-wing]] alternatives to the Drudge Report are the [[Dan Bongino|Bongino]] Report, NewsAmmo, Rantingly, Liberty Daily, [[Whatfinger News]], [[Gab]] Trends and and [[Infogalactic]] News).<ref>[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://bongino.com/introducing-the-bongino-report/ Introducing the Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HpiE1ZTuE Anti-Trump Turncoat Drudge BLEEDS Viewers as New Pro-Trump Sites SURGE!!!]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-so-mad-at-matt-drudge-theyre-trying-to-make-a-conservative-alternative-to-his-site Trump Fans Are So Mad at Matt Drudge They’re Trying to Make a MAGA Rival to His ‘Left-Wing’ Site]</ref><br />
<br />
== Drudge Report alternatives ==<br />
<br />
<br />
*[http://zenith.news/ Zenith News @znews ] <br />
*[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]<br />
*[https://newsammo.com/ NewsAmmo]<br />
*[https://www.citizenfreepress.com/ Citizen Free Press]<br />
*[https://news.infogalactic.com/ Infogalactic News]<br />
*[https://trends.gab.com/ Gab Trends]<br />
*[https://thelibertydaily.com/ The Liberty Daily]<br />
*[https://www.whatfinger.com/ WhatFinger News]<br />
*[https://rantingly.com/ Rantingly]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
[[Zenith.news]]<br />
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33599-now-anti-trump-drudge-losing-traffic-to-anti-establishment-site-whatfinger Now-anti-Trump Drudge Losing Traffic to Anti-establishment Site Whatfinger], ''New American''<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
[[Category:Conservative Media]]<br />
[[Category:Websites]]</div>Edtemplehttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Drudge_Report_alternatives&diff=1614729Drudge Report alternatives2020-01-19T03:12:29Z<p>Edtemple: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Drudge Report]] has become anti-[[Donald Trump]] and the backlash has caused alternatives to spring up and [[Matt Drudge]]'s website is bleeding traffic (the [[conservative]] and [[right-wing]] alternatives to the Drudge Report are the [[Dan Bongino|Bongino]] Report, NewsAmmo, Rantingly, Liberty Daily, [[Whatfinger News]], [[Gab]] Trends and and [[Infogalactic]] News).<ref>[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://bongino.com/introducing-the-bongino-report/ Introducing the Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HpiE1ZTuE Anti-Trump Turncoat Drudge BLEEDS Viewers as New Pro-Trump Sites SURGE!!!]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-so-mad-at-matt-drudge-theyre-trying-to-make-a-conservative-alternative-to-his-site Trump Fans Are So Mad at Matt Drudge They’re Trying to Make a MAGA Rival to His ‘Left-Wing’ Site]</ref><br />
<br />
== Drudge Report alternatives ==<br />
<br />
<br />
*[http://zenith.news/ Zenith News @znews ] <br />
*[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]<br />
*[https://newsammo.com/ NewsAmmo]<br />
*[https://www.citizenfreepress.com/ Citizen Free Press]<br />
*[https://news.infogalactic.com/ Infogalactic News]<br />
*[https://trends.gab.com/ Gab Trends]<br />
*[https://thelibertydaily.com/ The Liberty Daily]<br />
*[https://www.whatfinger.com/ WhatFinger News]<br />
*[https://rantingly.com/ Rantingly]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33599-now-anti-trump-drudge-losing-traffic-to-anti-establishment-site-whatfinger Now-anti-Trump Drudge Losing Traffic to Anti-establishment Site Whatfinger], ''New American''<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
[[Category:Conservative Media]]<br />
[[Category:Websites]]</div>Edtemplehttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Drudge_Report_alternatives&diff=1614728Drudge Report alternatives2020-01-19T03:11:18Z<p>Edtemple: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Drudge Report]] has become anti-[[Donald Trump]] and the backlash has caused alternatives to spring up and [[Matt Drudge]]'s website is bleeding traffic (the [[conservative]] and [[right-wing]] alternatives to the Drudge Report are the [[Dan Bongino|Bongino]] Report, NewsAmmo, Rantingly, Liberty Daily, [[Whatfinger News]], [[Gab]] Trends and and [[Infogalactic]] News).<ref>[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://bongino.com/introducing-the-bongino-report/ Introducing the Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HpiE1ZTuE Anti-Trump Turncoat Drudge BLEEDS Viewers as New Pro-Trump Sites SURGE!!!]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-so-mad-at-matt-drudge-theyre-trying-to-make-a-conservative-alternative-to-his-site Trump Fans Are So Mad at Matt Drudge They’re Trying to Make a MAGA Rival to His ‘Left-Wing’ Site]</ref><br />
<br />
== Drudge Report alternatives ==<br />
<br />
<br />
*[http://zenith.news/Zenith News @znews] <br />
*[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]<br />
*[https://newsammo.com/ NewsAmmo]<br />
*[https://www.citizenfreepress.com/ Citizen Free Press]<br />
*[https://news.infogalactic.com/ Infogalactic News]<br />
*[https://trends.gab.com/ Gab Trends]<br />
*[https://thelibertydaily.com/ The Liberty Daily]<br />
*[https://www.whatfinger.com/ WhatFinger News]<br />
*[https://rantingly.com/ Rantingly]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33599-now-anti-trump-drudge-losing-traffic-to-anti-establishment-site-whatfinger Now-anti-Trump Drudge Losing Traffic to Anti-establishment Site Whatfinger], ''New American''<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
[[Category:Conservative Media]]<br />
[[Category:Websites]]</div>Edtemplehttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Drudge_Report_alternatives&diff=1614727Drudge Report alternatives2020-01-19T03:09:49Z<p>Edtemple: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Drudge Report]] has become anti-[[Donald Trump]] and the backlash has caused alternatives to spring up and [[Matt Drudge]]'s website is bleeding traffic (the [[conservative]] and [[right-wing]] alternatives to the Drudge Report are the [[Dan Bongino|Bongino]] Report, NewsAmmo, Rantingly, Liberty Daily, [[Whatfinger News]], [[Gab]] Trends and and [[Infogalactic]] News).<ref>[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://bongino.com/introducing-the-bongino-report/ Introducing the Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HpiE1ZTuE Anti-Trump Turncoat Drudge BLEEDS Viewers as New Pro-Trump Sites SURGE!!!]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-so-mad-at-matt-drudge-theyre-trying-to-make-a-conservative-alternative-to-his-site Trump Fans Are So Mad at Matt Drudge They’re Trying to Make a MAGA Rival to His ‘Left-Wing’ Site]</ref><br />
<br />
== Drudge Report alternatives ==<br />
<br />
<br />
*[http://zenith.news] <br />
*[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]<br />
*[https://newsammo.com/ NewsAmmo]<br />
*[https://www.citizenfreepress.com/ Citizen Free Press]<br />
*[https://news.infogalactic.com/ Infogalactic News]<br />
*[https://trends.gab.com/ Gab Trends]<br />
*[https://thelibertydaily.com/ The Liberty Daily]<br />
*[https://www.whatfinger.com/ WhatFinger News]<br />
*[https://rantingly.com/ Rantingly]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33599-now-anti-trump-drudge-losing-traffic-to-anti-establishment-site-whatfinger Now-anti-Trump Drudge Losing Traffic to Anti-establishment Site Whatfinger], ''New American''<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
[[Category:Conservative Media]]<br />
[[Category:Websites]]</div>Edtemplehttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Drudge_Report_alternatives&diff=1614726Drudge Report alternatives2020-01-19T03:08:46Z<p>Edtemple: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Drudge Report]] has become anti-[[Donald Trump]] and the backlash has caused alternatives to spring up and [[Matt Drudge]]'s website is bleeding traffic (the [[conservative]] and [[right-wing]] alternatives to the Drudge Report are the [[Dan Bongino|Bongino]] Report, NewsAmmo, Rantingly, Liberty Daily, [[Whatfinger News]], [[Gab]] Trends and and [[Infogalactic]] News).<ref>[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://bongino.com/introducing-the-bongino-report/ Introducing the Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HpiE1ZTuE Anti-Trump Turncoat Drudge BLEEDS Viewers as New Pro-Trump Sites SURGE!!!]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-so-mad-at-matt-drudge-theyre-trying-to-make-a-conservative-alternative-to-his-site Trump Fans Are So Mad at Matt Drudge They’re Trying to Make a MAGA Rival to His ‘Left-Wing’ Site]</ref><br />
<br />
== Drudge Report alternatives ==<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Zenith.news]] *[http://zenith.news] <br />
*[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]<br />
*[https://newsammo.com/ NewsAmmo]<br />
*[https://www.citizenfreepress.com/ Citizen Free Press]<br />
*[https://news.infogalactic.com/ Infogalactic News]<br />
*[https://trends.gab.com/ Gab Trends]<br />
*[https://thelibertydaily.com/ The Liberty Daily]<br />
*[https://www.whatfinger.com/ WhatFinger News]<br />
*[https://rantingly.com/ Rantingly]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33599-now-anti-trump-drudge-losing-traffic-to-anti-establishment-site-whatfinger Now-anti-Trump Drudge Losing Traffic to Anti-establishment Site Whatfinger], ''New American''<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
[[Category:Conservative Media]]<br />
[[Category:Websites]]</div>Edtemplehttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Drudge_Report_alternatives&diff=1614725Drudge Report alternatives2020-01-19T03:07:45Z<p>Edtemple: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Drudge Report]] has become anti-[[Donald Trump]] and the backlash has caused alternatives to spring up and [[Matt Drudge]]'s website is bleeding traffic (the [[conservative]] and [[right-wing]] alternatives to the Drudge Report are the [[Dan Bongino|Bongino]] Report, NewsAmmo, Rantingly, Liberty Daily, [[Whatfinger News]], [[Gab]] Trends and and [[Infogalactic]] News).<ref>[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://bongino.com/introducing-the-bongino-report/ Introducing the Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HpiE1ZTuE Anti-Trump Turncoat Drudge BLEEDS Viewers as New Pro-Trump Sites SURGE!!!]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-so-mad-at-matt-drudge-theyre-trying-to-make-a-conservative-alternative-to-his-site Trump Fans Are So Mad at Matt Drudge They’re Trying to Make a MAGA Rival to His ‘Left-Wing’ Site]</ref><br />
<br />
== Drudge Report alternatives ==<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Zenith.news]] <br />
*[http://zenith.news] <br />
*[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]<br />
*[https://newsammo.com/ NewsAmmo]<br />
*[https://www.citizenfreepress.com/ Citizen Free Press]<br />
*[https://news.infogalactic.com/ Infogalactic News]<br />
*[https://trends.gab.com/ Gab Trends]<br />
*[https://thelibertydaily.com/ The Liberty Daily]<br />
*[https://www.whatfinger.com/ WhatFinger News]<br />
*[https://rantingly.com/ Rantingly]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33599-now-anti-trump-drudge-losing-traffic-to-anti-establishment-site-whatfinger Now-anti-Trump Drudge Losing Traffic to Anti-establishment Site Whatfinger], ''New American''<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
[[Category:Conservative Media]]<br />
[[Category:Websites]]</div>Edtemplehttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Drudge_Report_alternatives&diff=1614724Drudge Report alternatives2020-01-19T03:06:05Z<p>Edtemple: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Drudge Report]] has become anti-[[Donald Trump]] and the backlash has caused alternatives to spring up and [[Matt Drudge]]'s website is bleeding traffic (the [[conservative]] and [[right-wing]] alternatives to the Drudge Report are the [[Dan Bongino|Bongino]] Report, NewsAmmo, Rantingly, Liberty Daily, [[Whatfinger News]], [[Gab]] Trends and and [[Infogalactic]] News).<ref>[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://bongino.com/introducing-the-bongino-report/ Introducing the Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HpiE1ZTuE Anti-Trump Turncoat Drudge BLEEDS Viewers as New Pro-Trump Sites SURGE!!!]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-so-mad-at-matt-drudge-theyre-trying-to-make-a-conservative-alternative-to-his-site Trump Fans Are So Mad at Matt Drudge They’re Trying to Make a MAGA Rival to His ‘Left-Wing’ Site]</ref><br />
<br />
== Drudge Report alternatives ==<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Zenith.news]] www.zenith.news <br />
*[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]<br />
*[https://newsammo.com/ NewsAmmo]<br />
*[https://www.citizenfreepress.com/ Citizen Free Press]<br />
*[https://news.infogalactic.com/ Infogalactic News]<br />
*[https://trends.gab.com/ Gab Trends]<br />
*[https://thelibertydaily.com/ The Liberty Daily]<br />
*[https://www.whatfinger.com/ WhatFinger News]<br />
*[https://rantingly.com/ Rantingly]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33599-now-anti-trump-drudge-losing-traffic-to-anti-establishment-site-whatfinger Now-anti-Trump Drudge Losing Traffic to Anti-establishment Site Whatfinger], ''New American''<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
[[Category:Conservative Media]]<br />
[[Category:Websites]]</div>Edtemplehttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Drudge_Report_alternatives&diff=1614723Drudge Report alternatives2020-01-19T03:05:09Z<p>Edtemple: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Drudge Report]] has become anti-[[Donald Trump]] and the backlash has caused alternatives to spring up and [[Matt Drudge]]'s website is bleeding traffic (the [[conservative]] and [[right-wing]] alternatives to the Drudge Report are the [[Dan Bongino|Bongino]] Report, NewsAmmo, Rantingly, Liberty Daily, [[Whatfinger News]], [[Gab]] Trends and and [[Infogalactic]] News).<ref>[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://bongino.com/introducing-the-bongino-report/ Introducing the Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HpiE1ZTuE Anti-Trump Turncoat Drudge BLEEDS Viewers as New Pro-Trump Sites SURGE!!!]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-so-mad-at-matt-drudge-theyre-trying-to-make-a-conservative-alternative-to-his-site Trump Fans Are So Mad at Matt Drudge They’re Trying to Make a MAGA Rival to His ‘Left-Wing’ Site]</ref><br />
<br />
== Drudge Report alternatives ==<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Zenith.news]] zenith.news Zenith News<br />
*[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]<br />
*[https://newsammo.com/ NewsAmmo]<br />
*[https://www.citizenfreepress.com/ Citizen Free Press]<br />
*[https://news.infogalactic.com/ Infogalactic News]<br />
*[https://trends.gab.com/ Gab Trends]<br />
*[https://thelibertydaily.com/ The Liberty Daily]<br />
*[https://www.whatfinger.com/ WhatFinger News]<br />
*[https://rantingly.com/ Rantingly]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33599-now-anti-trump-drudge-losing-traffic-to-anti-establishment-site-whatfinger Now-anti-Trump Drudge Losing Traffic to Anti-establishment Site Whatfinger], ''New American''<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
[[Category:Conservative Media]]<br />
[[Category:Websites]]</div>Edtemplehttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Drudge_Report_alternatives&diff=1614722Drudge Report alternatives2020-01-19T03:03:17Z<p>Edtemple: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Drudge Report]] has become anti-[[Donald Trump]] and the backlash has caused alternatives to spring up and [[Matt Drudge]]'s website is bleeding traffic (the [[conservative]] and [[right-wing]] alternatives to the Drudge Report are the [[Dan Bongino|Bongino]] Report, NewsAmmo, Rantingly, Liberty Daily, [[Whatfinger News]], [[Gab]] Trends and and [[Infogalactic]] News).<ref>[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://bongino.com/introducing-the-bongino-report/ Introducing the Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HpiE1ZTuE Anti-Trump Turncoat Drudge BLEEDS Viewers as New Pro-Trump Sites SURGE!!!]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-so-mad-at-matt-drudge-theyre-trying-to-make-a-conservative-alternative-to-his-site Trump Fans Are So Mad at Matt Drudge They’re Trying to Make a MAGA Rival to His ‘Left-Wing’ Site]</ref><br />
<br />
== Drudge Report alternatives ==<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Zenith.news]] <br />
*[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]<br />
*[https://newsammo.com/ NewsAmmo]<br />
*[https://www.citizenfreepress.com/ Citizen Free Press]<br />
*[https://news.infogalactic.com/ Infogalactic News]<br />
*[https://trends.gab.com/ Gab Trends]<br />
*[https://thelibertydaily.com/ The Liberty Daily]<br />
*[https://www.whatfinger.com/ WhatFinger News]<br />
*[https://rantingly.com/ Rantingly]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33599-now-anti-trump-drudge-losing-traffic-to-anti-establishment-site-whatfinger Now-anti-Trump Drudge Losing Traffic to Anti-establishment Site Whatfinger], ''New American''<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
[[Category:Conservative Media]]<br />
[[Category:Websites]]</div>Edtemplehttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Drudge_Report&diff=1614721Drudge Report2020-01-19T03:00:57Z<p>Edtemple: </p>
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<div>The '''Drudge Report''' has been an online source for more than a decade of news censored or downplayed by the [[MSM|mainstream media]]. However, the Drudge Report has become anti-[[Donald Trump]] and the backlash has caused alternatives to spring up and [[Matt Drudge]]'s website is bleeding traffic (the [[conservative]] and [[right-wing]] alternatives to the Drudge Report are the [[Dan Bongino|Bongino]] Report, NewsAmmo, Rantingly, Liberty Daily, [[Whatfinger News]], [[Gab]] Trends and [[Infogalactic]] News. See: [[Drudge Report alternatives]]).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HpiE1ZTuE Anti-Trump Turncoat Drudge BLEEDS Viewers as New Pro-Trump Sites SURGE!!!]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-so-mad-at-matt-drudge-theyre-trying-to-make-a-conservative-alternative-to-his-site Trump Fans Are So Mad at Matt Drudge They’re Trying to Make a MAGA Rival to His ‘Left-Wing’ Site]</ref><ref>[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://bongino.com/introducing-the-bongino-report/ Introducing the Bongino Report]</ref> It also features news from Hollywood about box office receipts and the happenings of stars and starlets. It is named after its founder, Matt Drudge.<br />
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The Drudge Report played an instrumental role in breaking the story about President [[Bill Clinton]]'s relationship with [[Monica Lewinsky]] after ''[[The Washington Post]]'' refused to publish the story in 1997. This posting on the internet of this story by the Drudge Report led to the impeachment of President Clinton. The Drudge Report thereby played an important historical role in establishing the political power of the internet.<br />
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However, by 2018, the Drudge Report had become significantly more left-wing than in previous years, and most of the time, it would refer readers to mainstream media outlets such as [[CNN]], ''[[The New York Times]]'', and ''The Washington Post''.<ref>Donner, Leesa K. (January 11, 2018). [https://www.libertynation.com/the-drudge-report-statistics-dpm/ The Drudge Report: Statistics Don't Lie]. ''LibertyNation''. Retrieved January 12, 2018.</ref> Additionally, Matt Drudge, a [[homosexual]], has attacked [[conservative]]s such as [[Steve Bannon]] and [[Roy Moore]] for their conservative positions, and during the 2020 primaries, has also repeatedly backed the "married" homosexual mayor and Democratic candidate [[Pete Buttigieg]]. It also has mocked President Trump.<ref>Concha, Joe (October 24, 2019). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/467288-drudge-faces-conservative-pushback-after-mocking-trumps-colorado-wall-comment Drudge faces conservative pushback after mocking Trump's Colorado wall comment]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved October 24, 2019.</ref> Because of this leftward shift, many Drudge readers abandoned him for [[Whatfinger News]] and other conservative news outlets.<ref>Multiple references:<br />
*Duke, Selwyn (January 17, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/28057-whatfinger-news-what-the-drudge-report-was-meant-to-be “Whatfinger News”: What the Drudge Report Was Meant to Be]. ''The New American''. Retrieved January 19, 2018.<br />
*Duke, Selwyn (October 7, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33599-now-anti-trump-drudge-losing-traffic-to-anti-establishment-site-whatfinger Now-anti-Trump Drudge Losing Traffic to Anti-establishment Site Whatfinger]. ''The New American''. Retrieved October 7, 2019.<br />
*Duke, Selwyn (November 14, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/34037-is-drudge-the-enron-of-news-anti-trump-site-s-traffic-declines-as-conservatives-flee Is Drudge the Enron of News? Anti-Trump Site’s Traffic Declines as Conservatives Flee]. ''The New American''. Retrieved November 14, 2019.<br />
*Richardson, Valerie (November 21, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/21/matt-drudge-drudge-report-anti-trump-pivot-alarms-/ Et tu, Drudge? Alarm grows on right over site's anti-Trump pivot]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved November 21, 2019.<br />
*Richardson, Valerie (November 26, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/26/exclusive-rivals-drudge-throne-gain-ground-amid-ag/ Exclusive: As Drudge Report falters amid anti-Trump shift, rivals on right gain ground]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved November 26, 2019.<br />
*Concha, Joe (December 4, 2019). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/473064-conservative-dan-bongino-launches-alternative-to-the-drudge-report Conservative Dan Bongino launches alternative to the Drudge Report]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved December 4, 2019.<br />
*Brest, Mike (December 4, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/drudge-report-competitor-launched-by-dan-bongino-is-now-live Drudge Report competitor launched by Dan Bongino is now live]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved December 4, 2019.<br />
*Richardson, Valerie (December 5, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/5/matt-drudge-picks-another-conservative-competitor-/ Matt Drudge picks up another conservative competitor with the Bongino Report]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved December 5, 2019.<br />
*Richardson, Valerie (December 23, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/23/free-matt-drudge-silicon-valley-conservatives-laun/ 'Free Matt Drudge': Silicon Valley conservatives to launch latest Drudge rival]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved December 23, 2019.</ref><br />
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*[[Drudge Report alternatives]]<br />
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*[[O’Sullivan’s First Law]]<br />
*[[Zenith.news]]<br />
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<div>The '''Drudge Report''' has been an online source for more than a decade of news censored or downplayed by the [[MSM|mainstream media]]. However, the Drudge Report has become anti-[[Donald Trump]] and the backlash has caused alternatives to spring up and [[Matt Drudge]]'s website is bleeding traffic (the [[conservative]] and [[right-wing]] alternatives to the Drudge Report are the [[Dan Bongino|Bongino]] Report, NewsAmmo, Rantingly, Liberty Daily, [[Whatfinger News]], [[Gab]] Trends and [[Infogalactic]] News. See: [[Drudge Report alternatives]]).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HpiE1ZTuE Anti-Trump Turncoat Drudge BLEEDS Viewers as New Pro-Trump Sites SURGE!!!]</ref><ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-so-mad-at-matt-drudge-theyre-trying-to-make-a-conservative-alternative-to-his-site Trump Fans Are So Mad at Matt Drudge They’re Trying to Make a MAGA Rival to His ‘Left-Wing’ Site]</ref><ref>[https://bonginoreport.com/ Bongino Report]</ref><ref>[https://bongino.com/introducing-the-bongino-report/ Introducing the Bongino Report]</ref> It also features news from Hollywood about box office receipts and the happenings of stars and starlets. It is named after its founder, Matt Drudge.<br />
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The Drudge Report played an instrumental role in breaking the story about President [[Bill Clinton]]'s relationship with [[Monica Lewinsky]] after ''[[The Washington Post]]'' refused to publish the story in 1997. This posting on the internet of this story by the Drudge Report led to the impeachment of President Clinton. The Drudge Report thereby played an important historical role in establishing the political power of the internet.<br />
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However, by 2018, the Drudge Report had become significantly more left-wing than in previous years, and most of the time, it would refer readers to mainstream media outlets such as [[CNN]], ''[[The New York Times]]'', and ''The Washington Post''.<ref>Donner, Leesa K. (January 11, 2018). [https://www.libertynation.com/the-drudge-report-statistics-dpm/ The Drudge Report: Statistics Don't Lie]. ''LibertyNation''. Retrieved January 12, 2018.</ref> Additionally, Matt Drudge, a [[homosexual]], has attacked [[conservative]]s such as [[Steve Bannon]] and [[Roy Moore]] for their conservative positions, and during the 2020 primaries, has also repeatedly backed the "married" homosexual mayor and Democratic candidate [[Pete Buttigieg]]. It also has mocked President Trump.<ref>Concha, Joe (October 24, 2019). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/467288-drudge-faces-conservative-pushback-after-mocking-trumps-colorado-wall-comment Drudge faces conservative pushback after mocking Trump's Colorado wall comment]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved October 24, 2019.</ref> Because of this leftward shift, many Drudge readers abandoned him for [[Whatfinger News]] and other conservative news outlets.<ref>Multiple references:<br />
*Duke, Selwyn (January 17, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/28057-whatfinger-news-what-the-drudge-report-was-meant-to-be “Whatfinger News”: What the Drudge Report Was Meant to Be]. ''The New American''. Retrieved January 19, 2018.<br />
*Duke, Selwyn (October 7, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33599-now-anti-trump-drudge-losing-traffic-to-anti-establishment-site-whatfinger Now-anti-Trump Drudge Losing Traffic to Anti-establishment Site Whatfinger]. ''The New American''. Retrieved October 7, 2019.<br />
*Duke, Selwyn (November 14, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/34037-is-drudge-the-enron-of-news-anti-trump-site-s-traffic-declines-as-conservatives-flee Is Drudge the Enron of News? Anti-Trump Site’s Traffic Declines as Conservatives Flee]. ''The New American''. Retrieved November 14, 2019.<br />
*Richardson, Valerie (November 21, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/21/matt-drudge-drudge-report-anti-trump-pivot-alarms-/ Et tu, Drudge? Alarm grows on right over site's anti-Trump pivot]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved November 21, 2019.<br />
*Richardson, Valerie (November 26, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/26/exclusive-rivals-drudge-throne-gain-ground-amid-ag/ Exclusive: As Drudge Report falters amid anti-Trump shift, rivals on right gain ground]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved November 26, 2019.<br />
*Concha, Joe (December 4, 2019). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/473064-conservative-dan-bongino-launches-alternative-to-the-drudge-report Conservative Dan Bongino launches alternative to the Drudge Report]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved December 4, 2019.<br />
*Brest, Mike (December 4, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/drudge-report-competitor-launched-by-dan-bongino-is-now-live Drudge Report competitor launched by Dan Bongino is now live]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved December 4, 2019.<br />
*Richardson, Valerie (December 5, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/5/matt-drudge-picks-another-conservative-competitor-/ Matt Drudge picks up another conservative competitor with the Bongino Report]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved December 5, 2019.<br />
*Richardson, Valerie (December 23, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/23/free-matt-drudge-silicon-valley-conservatives-laun/ 'Free Matt Drudge': Silicon Valley conservatives to launch latest Drudge rival]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved December 23, 2019.</ref><br />
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*[[Drudge Report alternatives]]<br />
*[[Whatfinger News]]<br />
*[[O’Sullivan’s First Law]]<br />
*[[Zenith.News]]<br />
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'''Zenith''', the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the [[nadir]] and vertically above the observer.<ref>[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/zenith Zenith] Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary</ref> <br />
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Astronomical zenith is defined by gravity.<br />
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<div>'''Education''' is the process, whether in a [[school|formal]] setting or [[homeschooling|not]], of acquiring [[skill]]s and [[knowledge]], also called [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pedagogy pedagogy]. It is most familiar in the schooling of the [[children|young]], but continues throughout life. It is considered a human right, and Article 26 of The Universal Declaration on Human Rights (1948) recognizes education along with other necessities such as food, shelter, and water as a fundamental human right, and that parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.<ref>''The Universal Declaration on Human Rights'' (1948) [https://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html United Nations]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref> The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by 192 countries in 1989, affirms the right of all children to free, relevant and quality education.<ref>''Convention on the Rights of the Child'' (1989) [http://untreaty.un.org/English/TreatyEvent2001/pdf/03e.pdf United Nations]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref> As a catalyst for human development, education provides people with the tools and knowledge they need to understand and participate in today's world. It helps to sustain the human values that contribute to individual and collective well-being. It inspires confidence and provides the skills needed to participate in public debate. It makes people more self-reliant and aware of opportunities and rights.<br />
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Academic performance correlates most closely with the amount of time kids spend on homework. The United States has a [[socialism|socialized]] education program, though there are also smaller, competing, [[private school|privately run schools]] within the country. While it has been the establishment for some time, many have argued against the merits of government run programs.<br />
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==Quality of life==<br />
Education enhances the ability of households to manage [[health]] problems, improve [[nutrition]] and childcare, and plan for the future. In developing areas of the world particularly, basic education provides girls and women with a greater understanding of basic health and nutrition, as well as of their own potential. <br />
*Educated women marry later and receive better prenatal care.<ref>''Why is education important?'' (2004) "Education For All" [http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28703&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html UNESCO]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref> <br />
*Children of mothers who have received at least a basic education are healthier, better nourished and more likely to receive education themselves than children of mothers who have never received education.<ref>''Why is education important?'' op cit</ref><br />
*In the [[Philippines]], maternal primary education reduces the risk of child mortality by half and secondary education by a factor of three.<ref>''Education Now: Break the Cycle of Poverty'' (1999) [http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/campaign/index.html OXFAM]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref> <br />
*Education helps to prevent the labour, [[trafficking]] and sexual exploitation of children, and their use as soldiers.<ref>''Child Labour Today'' "End Child Exploitation" (2005) [http://www.unicef.org.uk/publications/pdf/ECECHILD2_A4.pdf UNICEF]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
*It is one of the most effective weapons against disease, and raises awareness of living conditions and environmental protection.<ref>''Basic education and gender equality'' (2007) [http://www.unicef.org/girlseducation/index_bigpicture.html UNICEF]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
*Life expectancy rises by as much as 2 years for every 1 per cent increase in literacy.<ref>''The right to education'' "Education: How can a country with limited resources provide education to all children?" [http://concernusa.org/media/pdf/2007/10/FinalEducation.pdf Concern USA]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
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==Economic development==<br />
Education is essential for [[economics|economic]] development and eradicating [[poverty]]. It allows people to be more productive, to play a greater role in economic life, and to earn a better living.<ref>''Why is education important?'' op cit</ref><br />
*An adult with a primary education earns twice as much as an adult without any education.<ref>'''Bartholomew, Carolyn''' ''It All Starts with Education'' (2006) [http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/138663 OneWorld]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
*In [[Niger]], the incidence of poverty is 70% in households headed by adults with no education, compared to 56% for households headed by adults who have received basic education.<ref>'''Dhanarajan, Gajaraj''' ''Combating Poverty through Adult Education'' (lecture; Dennis Irvine Lecture Series, 5 March 2001) [http://www.col.org/colweb/site/cache/offonce/pid/3671 Commonwealth of Learning]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
*Farming practices can be improved through basic education.<ref>''Industry Provides Update on Support for Economic, Social Development and Environmental Conservation in World’s Cocoa Regions'' (2006) [http://www.worldcocoafoundation.org/for-the-media/wcf_industryupdate.asp worldcocoa.org]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
*In [[Uganda]], four years of primary education raise a farmer's output by 7%.<ref>'''Mutangadura, G. B. and Lamb, V. L.''' ''Variations in rates of primary school access and enrolments in sub-Saharan Africa: a pooled cross-country time series analysis'' International Journal of Educational Development <br />
Volume 23, Issue 4, July 2003, Pages 369-380 [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VD7-48M7TH4-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=01fc5236be0cd5afa9013745bba36513 Science Direct]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
*It is the foundation for acquiring knowledge and skills necessary to participate in and benefit from globalization and technological change.<ref>''Forum on Technology, Employment and Poverty Alleviation'' "Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia/International Labour<br />
Organization (2002) [http://www.escwa.org.lb/information/publications/edit/upload/tech-02-02.pdf UN]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
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However, the idea that higher education through colleges is necessary for greater productivity and higher income is challenged by many. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, in 2008 the average college graduate made $46,000 while the average plumber made $49,200, the average electrician $44,000, the average HVAC tech $47,000 and the average carpenter $42,940. In addition, only 35 percent of students earn a diploma in four years, and just 52 percent graduate in six, with the national college-dropout rate being 65 percent.<ref>http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2010/02/27/opinion/469171.txt</ref> "Blue collar" tradesmen are also not burdened with years of college debt, nor do they add to the national debt by going into public service in order to have their student loans "forgiven" after 10 years of employment therein (with 120 continuous payments).<ref>[http://www.studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/charts/public-service]</ref> Institutions of higher education therefore put a drain on a country's manpower and resources for which there can be no justification in difficult economic times. The previously strong US economy will be restored to its former efficiency when the staggering sums currently being diverted to higher education are put to more effective use in reducing the absurdly high deficit by cutting programs that demonstrably serve no useful purpose.<br />
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==Political stability and democracy==<br />
Education makes it possible for people to be responsible and informed citizens, and to have a voice in [[politics]] and [[society]], which is essential for sustaining [[democracy]]. It also provides people with the knowledge and awareness needed to promote tolerance and understanding among people.<ref>''Why is education important?'' op cit</ref><br />
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==Ideology in modern education==<br />
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In addition to purely academic teaching, education forms a part in developing a moral and political worldview. In many countries formal religious instruction is part of public education, while the [[United States]], which holds to [[separation of church and state]], no longer formally engages in such. However, it is argued by [[conservatives]] that the modern degree of exclusion of religious belief from the State was not the historical norm.<ref>[http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/heritage/heritage19.html Honorable Judge Robert Ulrich Chief Justice, Missouri Court Of Appeals, Western District, ''Were the Founding Fathers Christian?'']</ref><ref>http://www.naacd.com/issues_judicial.htm</ref> One example invoked in support of this contention is that an estimated 75 percent of the school systems in the South had religious services and Bible readings as late as 1962, when in ''[[Engel versus Vitale]]'', the U.S. [[Supreme Court]] decided that school-sponsored prayer was unconstitutional.<ref>Colliers 1961 Yearbook p. 224</ref> It is also argued that it is impossible to completely separate an educational system from moral beliefs,<ref>[http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/CauseEffect.html Cause and Effect: The Bible, the Educational System, and Its Influence]</ref> and that the modern divorcement of religion from education constitutes an official "establishment of a religion of secularism" - a term used by U.S. [[Supreme Court]] justice Potter Stewart in dissenting from the decision rendered on June 17, 1963 in ''[[Abington School versus Schempp]]'', which outlawed State-sponsored Bible reading in public schools.<ref>http://www.naacd.com/issues_judicial.htm</ref><ref>Stephen V. Monsma, J. Christopher Soper, ''The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies'', p. 27</ref><br />
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Education in America, especially as its higher level, is typically seen by conservatives as promoting liberalism and helping to promoting [[moral degeneration]]. A (disputed) study showed that 50% of American college faculty identified themselves as Democrats and only 11% as Republicans (with 33% being Independent, and 5% identifying themselves with another party). 72% described themselves as "to the left of center," including 18% who were strongly left. Only 15% described themselves as right of center, including only 3% who were "strongly right."<ref>North American Academic Study Survey (NAASS) of students, faculty and administrators at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada 1999. The Berkeley Electronic Press</ref><ref>http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol3/iss1/art2</ref><ref>http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/17963/liberal_bias_in_our_schools.html</ref><br />
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Research on the political leanings of their university professors by members of The George Washington University Chapter of Young America's Foundation (GWYAF) found substantial liberal bias in the academy. The school's faculty gave 92 percent of their political donations ($221,490) to Democratic candidates versus only 8 percent ($20,500) to Republicans in the 2008 primary election. Consistent with this, in the presidential election the ratio was 91 percent to 9 percent.<br />
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Similarly, the ratio of Yale faculty donations in the 2004 presidential election between Kerry and Bush was 150:3. The ratio at Princeton was 114:1, and at Harvard, 406:13.<ref>http://www.academia.org/george-washington-slanted-here/</ref><br />
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Law professor Richard D. Parker, after 35 years at [[Harvard University]], noted, "On this faculty, there are around 100 professors or assistant professors, and of that 100, I think you’d have to estimate there would be maybe eight registered Republicans." "I'm a registered Independent…and there’s no one else in the 100 who would identify as a populist."<ref>http://www.academia.org/harvard-still-hates-america</ref><br />
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Textbooks used in schools of all ages have also been exposed as promoting a decidedly liberal bias against the nation of Israel.<ref>[http://www.academia.org/textbook-bias-against-israel]</ref> A landmark book called ''The Trouble with Textbooks'', by Dr. Gary A. Tobin and Dennis R. Ybarra described results of a comprehensive study they conducted of the 28 most widely used Social Studies textbooks in the United States. The researchers found that U.S. textbooks often contain "repeated misrepresentations that cross the line into bigotry.” Examples included Jesus being called a ''[[Palestinian]]'', Islam being "treated with a devotional tone in some textbooks, less detached and analytical than it ought to be. Muslim beliefs are described in several instances as fact, without any clear qualifier such as ''Muslims believe...''' The Islamic empire of the Middle Ages was presented as “a time of unqualified glory without blemishes”, while various aspects of the wars of Arab states against Israel were misrepresented.<br />
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One the glossary of book, ''World History: Continuity and Change'', the entry on the Ten Commandments skeptically describes them as "Moral laws Moses '''claimed''' to have received from the Hebrew G-d Y-hweh on Mount Sinai," while the very same glossary states the [[Qu'ran]] is a "Holy Book of Islam containing revelations received by Muhammad from G-d.” <ref>http://www.israelnationalnews.com/SendMail.aspx?print=print&type=0&item=127797</ref><br />
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One textbook publisher, ''Teachers Curriculum Institute'', has agreed to rewrite its unit on the Middle East after being challenged, and consulting many scholars. The San Francisco-based Jewish Community Relations Council found that the textbooks were so filled with inaccuracies and biased that they should not be used.<ref>San Francisco Jewish Community Publications, Friday, February 13, 2004</ref><br />
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Professor, Larry Schweikart notes that most textbooks tend to come from New York, Boston, Washington and Philadelphia, all liberal bastions. As concerns American history, Schweikart sees the "Reagan test" as a consistent indicator of whether a book is politically slanted. The majority of books he has examined credit former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with ending the Cold War, while marginalizing Reagan.<ref>[http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/11/president-reagan-gets-the-shaft-in-textbooks/print/ Fox News, March 11, 2010]</ref><br />
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The Intercollegiate Studies Institute conducted extensive surveys in 2006 and 2007 of 14,000 college freshmen and seniors at fifty colleges nationwide, aimed at determining the impact a college education has on civic knowledge. The study resulted in the average freshman and the average senior scoring just over 50% on a sixty-question multiple-choice exam on fundamental knowledge of America's history and institutions. An additional survey of 2,508 American adults resulted in the average college graduate scoring 57% in a thirty-three-question basic civics test, correctly answering only four questions more than the average high school graduate.<br />
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While scores indicated a college education resulted in little advance in knowledge of American history and institutions, an often significant increase in favoring liberal ideology was seen over those who were not college graduates. In addition, those with the highest degrees were the most liberal.<ref>[http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2010/major_findings_finding1.html Intercollegiate Studies Institute,] ''The Shaping of the American Mind.''</ref><br />
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James Piereson, in analyzing changes in higher education in America, comments on the growth of the ''liberal university'', and which was then displaced by the ''left university'' during the revolutionary years of the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, with its alterations becoming institutionalized in the years that followed. Some of the noted resultant changes are that,<br />
{{cquote|single-sex colleges all but disappeared; college regulation of student morals disappeared as well; government regulation of employment expanded, putting pressure on institutions to hire women and minorities for faculty positions; the line between teaching a subject matter and advocating political positions was blurred or even eliminated altogether as the new campus radicalism asserted that all teaching is political in nature; the liberal underpinnings of academic culture--the freedom to teach and conduct research--were attacked and eroded in the name of political correctness; the unifying character of the humanities was subverted and discredited when they were said to represent an oppressive tradition formed by white European males; new fields, usually with ideological preconceptions, were created outside the traditional departments and areas of study, thus expanding the positions available for radical faculty; serious academic requirements, including foreign language proficiency, were softened or eliminated.<br />
<br />
...the radicals of the 1960s went further to launch a wholesale attack on American culture and the middle-class way of life, which they condemned as repressive and, worse, boring. The cultural radicalism of the 1960s, derived from the Beats of the 1950s, was so appealing to the new campus left because it promised something beyond political reform--namely, a different way of life with a revised set of morals...<ref>[https://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=6120&R=163E436DC8VI James Piereson, ''The Left University'', part VI], The Weekly Standard, October 3, 2005 Volume 011, Issue 03</ref>}}<br />
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Related to this, in his State of the Union address of 2010, President Obama called for providing complete "forgiveness" of student loans to students who spend 10 years (with 120 continuous payments) employed in public service. However, this would be an extension of 2007 College Cost Reduction Act, which took effect in July 2009. Public service includes government and non-profit work, but excludes employment in religious instruction or proselytization.<ref>[http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-24922.pdf Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 206 / Thursday, October 23, 2008 / Rules and Regulations, Section 685.219—Public Service Loan, p. 15.27]</ref> In addition to increasing the [[national debt]], this provision may be seen as being conducive to further promoting an entitlement mentality, and populating government with those who often manifest and propagate the same.<br />
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===History of Progressive Education===<br />
<br />
Progressives have a very long history of using the schools as a vehicle to advance their agenda. Going as far back as the turn of the 20th century, leaders such as [[John Dewey]] have subverted the educational system to achieve specific ends. [[Woodrow Wilson]], for example, said the following in 1909:<br />
<blockquote>The purpose of a university should be to make a son as unlike his father as possible. By the time a man has grown old enough to have a son in college he has specialized. The university should generalize the treatment of its undergraduates, should struggle to put them in touch with every force of life. Every man of established success is dangerous to society. His tendency is to keep society as it is. His success has been founded upon it. You will not find many reformers among the successful men. A man told me once that he left college interested in humanity. At 40 he was interested only in an industry to which he had applied himself. At 60 he was interested only in his bank account. Any social change affects that bank account. Society cannot progress without change.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Link|first1=Arthur S.|title=The papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 19|date=1975|publisher=Princeton University Press}}</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=fpk8AAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+purpose+of+a+university+should+be+to+make+a+son+as+unlike+his+father+as+possible.%22&dq=%22The+purpose+of+a+university+should+be+to+make+a+son+as+unlike+his+father+as+possible.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I136VOP8J4O_ggSr9oPoDg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA Retrieved March-6-15</ref></blockquote><br />
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The Blaze has also speculated that progressive education may have even had its roots as early as 1865 at least, possibly as early as the early 1800s due to America using European graduate schools to compensate the lack of their own during the time they had been adopting radical philosophies from [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]], [[Benedict de Spinoza]], [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]], [[David Friedrich Strauss|D. F. Strauss]], [[Karl Marx]], [[Charles Darwin]], Spencer, and [[Auguste Comte]], among others.<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/contributions/why-liberals-think-being-educated-means-being-liberal</ref><br />
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==Quotes about teaching==<br />
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* [[Galileo Galilei]]: "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."<ref>[http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/eduquote.htm Quotes on Education]</ref><br />
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* [[George Orwell]]: "the present-day attitude towards education is enormously more humane and sensible than that of the past."<ref>http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/such-such-were-the-joys.htm</ref><br />
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* [[Theodore Roosevelt]]: "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."<br />
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* "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."<br />
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* "There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility."<br />
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* "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."<br />
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* [[Thomas Sowell]]: "We pay a lot of lip service to educational excellence. But too many institutions and individuals that have produced good educational results for minority students have not only failed to get support, but have even been undermined."<ref>[http://www.creators.com/conservative/thomas-sowell/are-we-serious-about-education.html Are We Serious About Education?]</ref><br />
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* "We know from rigorous research that the impact on student achievement that comes from having a good versus average teacher clearly trumps the effect of smaller class sizes."<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist|colwidth=35em}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Citizens For Excellence In Education]]<br />
*[[Homeschooling]]<br />
*[[Liberal Myths About Education]]<br />
*[[Pygmalion effect]]<br />
*[[American Council of Trustees and Alumni]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml U.S. Department of Education], the major federal agency for education in the U.S.<br />
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ National Center for Education Statistics], an excellent research resource for educational statistics.<br />
* [http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ National Assessment of Educational Progress], for researchers and educators interested in assessment issues.<br />
* [http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-294.html A history of the modern homeschool movement], from the Cato Institute.<br />
* [http://www.nheri.org National Home Education Research Institute], a research resource for homeschoolers.<br />
* [http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2007/marapr/features/dweck.html The Effort Effect] - According to a Stanford psychologist, you'll reach new heights if you learn to embrace the occasional tumble.<br />
* [https://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/hl1013.cfm Why Won't Politically Correct Professors Teach English and American Literature?] - Dr. Elizabeth Kantor at '''[[Heritage Foundation|The Heritage Foundation]]''' talks about why English professors don't seem to want to teach English and American literature, and about why the consequences of that failure are more important than you might think.<br />
* [http://www.aim.org/wls/category/education/ What Liberals Say - Category: Education], [[Accuracy In Media]]<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/bendingtwigrevol00ruddrich Bending the twig; the revolution in education and its effect on our children], an out of copyright book(according to Archive.org) detailing some of the roots of [[Progressive Education]].<br />
*[[The School Choice Show]]<br />
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<div>'''Education''' is the process, whether in a [[school|formal]] setting or [[homeschooling|not]], of acquiring [[skill]]s and [[knowledge]], also called [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pedagogy pedagogy]. It is most familiar in the schooling of the [[children|young]], but continues throughout life. It is considered a human right, and Article 26 of The Universal Declaration on Human Rights (1948) recognizes education along with other necessities such as food, shelter, and water as a fundamental human right, and that parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.<ref>''The Universal Declaration on Human Rights'' (1948) [https://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html United Nations]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref> The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by 192 countries in 1989, affirms the right of all children to free, relevant and quality education.<ref>''Convention on the Rights of the Child'' (1989) [http://untreaty.un.org/English/TreatyEvent2001/pdf/03e.pdf United Nations]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref> As a catalyst for human development, education provides people with the tools and knowledge they need to understand and participate in today's world. It helps to sustain the human values that contribute to individual and collective well-being. It inspires confidence and provides the skills needed to participate in public debate. It makes people more self-reliant and aware of opportunities and rights.<br />
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Academic performance correlates most closely with the amount of time kids spend on homework. The United States has a [[socialism|socialized]] education program, though there are also smaller, competing, [[private school|privately run schools]] within the country. While it has been the establishment for some time, many have argued against the merits of government run programs.<br />
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==Quality of life==<br />
Education enhances the ability of households to manage [[health]] problems, improve [[nutrition]] and childcare, and plan for the future. In developing areas of the world particularly, basic education provides girls and women with a greater understanding of basic health and nutrition, as well as of their own potential. <br />
*Educated women marry later and receive better prenatal care.<ref>''Why is education important?'' (2004) "Education For All" [http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28703&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html UNESCO]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref> <br />
*Children of mothers who have received at least a basic education are healthier, better nourished and more likely to receive education themselves than children of mothers who have never received education.<ref>''Why is education important?'' op cit</ref><br />
*In the [[Philippines]], maternal primary education reduces the risk of child mortality by half and secondary education by a factor of three.<ref>''Education Now: Break the Cycle of Poverty'' (1999) [http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/campaign/index.html OXFAM]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref> <br />
*Education helps to prevent the labour, [[trafficking]] and sexual exploitation of children, and their use as soldiers.<ref>''Child Labour Today'' "End Child Exploitation" (2005) [http://www.unicef.org.uk/publications/pdf/ECECHILD2_A4.pdf UNICEF]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
*It is one of the most effective weapons against disease, and raises awareness of living conditions and environmental protection.<ref>''Basic education and gender equality'' (2007) [http://www.unicef.org/girlseducation/index_bigpicture.html UNICEF]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
*Life expectancy rises by as much as 2 years for every 1 per cent increase in literacy.<ref>''The right to education'' "Education: How can a country with limited resources provide education to all children?" [http://concernusa.org/media/pdf/2007/10/FinalEducation.pdf Concern USA]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
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==Economic development==<br />
Education is essential for [[economics|economic]] development and eradicating [[poverty]]. It allows people to be more productive, to play a greater role in economic life, and to earn a better living.<ref>''Why is education important?'' op cit</ref><br />
*An adult with a primary education earns twice as much as an adult without any education.<ref>'''Bartholomew, Carolyn''' ''It All Starts with Education'' (2006) [http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/138663 OneWorld]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
*In [[Niger]], the incidence of poverty is 70% in households headed by adults with no education, compared to 56% for households headed by adults who have received basic education.<ref>'''Dhanarajan, Gajaraj''' ''Combating Poverty through Adult Education'' (lecture; Dennis Irvine Lecture Series, 5 March 2001) [http://www.col.org/colweb/site/cache/offonce/pid/3671 Commonwealth of Learning]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
*Farming practices can be improved through basic education.<ref>''Industry Provides Update on Support for Economic, Social Development and Environmental Conservation in World’s Cocoa Regions'' (2006) [http://www.worldcocoafoundation.org/for-the-media/wcf_industryupdate.asp worldcocoa.org]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
*In [[Uganda]], four years of primary education raise a farmer's output by 7%.<ref>'''Mutangadura, G. B. and Lamb, V. L.''' ''Variations in rates of primary school access and enrolments in sub-Saharan Africa: a pooled cross-country time series analysis'' International Journal of Educational Development <br />
Volume 23, Issue 4, July 2003, Pages 369-380 [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VD7-48M7TH4-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=01fc5236be0cd5afa9013745bba36513 Science Direct]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
*It is the foundation for acquiring knowledge and skills necessary to participate in and benefit from globalization and technological change.<ref>''Forum on Technology, Employment and Poverty Alleviation'' "Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia/International Labour<br />
Organization (2002) [http://www.escwa.org.lb/information/publications/edit/upload/tech-02-02.pdf UN]. Accessed 2 February 2008</ref><br />
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However, the idea that higher education through colleges is necessary for greater productivity and higher income is challenged by many. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, in 2008 the average college graduate made $46,000 while the average plumber made $49,200, the average electrician $44,000, the average HVAC tech $47,000 and the average carpenter $42,940. In addition, only 35 percent of students earn a diploma in four years, and just 52 percent graduate in six, with the national college-dropout rate being 65 percent.<ref>http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2010/02/27/opinion/469171.txt</ref> "Blue collar" tradesmen are also not burdened with years of college debt, nor do they add to the national debt by going into public service in order to have their student loans "forgiven" after 10 years of employment therein (with 120 continuous payments).<ref>[http://www.studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/charts/public-service]</ref> Institutions of higher education therefore put a drain on a country's manpower and resources for which there can be no justification in difficult economic times. The previously strong US economy will be restored to its former efficiency when the staggering sums currently being diverted to higher education are put to more effective use in reducing the absurdly high deficit by cutting programs that demonstrably serve no useful purpose.<br />
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==Political stability and democracy==<br />
Education makes it possible for people to be responsible and informed citizens, and to have a voice in [[politics]] and [[society]], which is essential for sustaining [[democracy]]. It also provides people with the knowledge and awareness needed to promote tolerance and understanding among people.<ref>''Why is education important?'' op cit</ref><br />
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==Ideology in modern education==<br />
===Progressive Education===<br />
In addition to purely academic teaching, education forms a part in developing a moral and political worldview. In many countries formal religious instruction is part of public education, while the [[United States]], which holds to [[separation of church and state]], no longer formally engages in such. However, it is argued by [[conservatives]] that the modern degree of exclusion of religious belief from the State was not the historical norm.<ref>[http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/heritage/heritage19.html Honorable Judge Robert Ulrich Chief Justice, Missouri Court Of Appeals, Western District, ''Were the Founding Fathers Christian?'']</ref><ref>http://www.naacd.com/issues_judicial.htm</ref> One example invoked in support of this contention is that an estimated 75 percent of the school systems in the South had religious services and Bible readings as late as 1962, when in ''[[Engel versus Vitale]]'', the U.S. [[Supreme Court]] decided that school-sponsored prayer was unconstitutional.<ref>Colliers 1961 Yearbook p. 224</ref> It is also argued that it is impossible to completely separate an educational system from moral beliefs,<ref>[http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/CauseEffect.html Cause and Effect: The Bible, the Educational System, and Its Influence]</ref> and that the modern divorcement of religion from education constitutes an official "establishment of a religion of secularism" - a term used by U.S. [[Supreme Court]] justice Potter Stewart in dissenting from the decision rendered on June 17, 1963 in ''[[Abington School versus Schempp]]'', which outlawed State-sponsored Bible reading in public schools.<ref>http://www.naacd.com/issues_judicial.htm</ref><ref>Stephen V. Monsma, J. Christopher Soper, ''The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies'', p. 27</ref><br />
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Education in America, especially as its higher level, is typically seen by conservatives as promoting liberalism and helping to promoting [[moral degeneration]]. A (disputed) study showed that 50% of American college faculty identified themselves as Democrats and only 11% as Republicans (with 33% being Independent, and 5% identifying themselves with another party). 72% described themselves as "to the left of center," including 18% who were strongly left. Only 15% described themselves as right of center, including only 3% who were "strongly right."<ref>North American Academic Study Survey (NAASS) of students, faculty and administrators at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada 1999. The Berkeley Electronic Press</ref><ref>http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol3/iss1/art2</ref><ref>http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/17963/liberal_bias_in_our_schools.html</ref><br />
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Research on the political leanings of their university professors by members of The George Washington University Chapter of Young America's Foundation (GWYAF) found substantial liberal bias in the academy. The school's faculty gave 92 percent of their political donations ($221,490) to Democratic candidates versus only 8 percent ($20,500) to Republicans in the 2008 primary election. Consistent with this, in the presidential election the ratio was 91 percent to 9 percent.<br />
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Similarly, the ratio of Yale faculty donations in the 2004 presidential election between Kerry and Bush was 150:3. The ratio at Princeton was 114:1, and at Harvard, 406:13.<ref>http://www.academia.org/george-washington-slanted-here/</ref><br />
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Law professor Richard D. Parker, after 35 years at [[Harvard University]], noted, "On this faculty, there are around 100 professors or assistant professors, and of that 100, I think you’d have to estimate there would be maybe eight registered Republicans." "I'm a registered Independent…and there’s no one else in the 100 who would identify as a populist."<ref>http://www.academia.org/harvard-still-hates-america</ref><br />
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Textbooks used in schools of all ages have also been exposed as promoting a decidedly liberal bias against the nation of Israel.<ref>[http://www.academia.org/textbook-bias-against-israel]</ref> A landmark book called ''The Trouble with Textbooks'', by Dr. Gary A. Tobin and Dennis R. Ybarra described results of a comprehensive study they conducted of the 28 most widely used Social Studies textbooks in the United States. The researchers found that U.S. textbooks often contain "repeated misrepresentations that cross the line into bigotry.” Examples included Jesus being called a ''[[Palestinian]]'', Islam being "treated with a devotional tone in some textbooks, less detached and analytical than it ought to be. Muslim beliefs are described in several instances as fact, without any clear qualifier such as ''Muslims believe...''' The Islamic empire of the Middle Ages was presented as “a time of unqualified glory without blemishes”, while various aspects of the wars of Arab states against Israel were misrepresented.<br />
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One the glossary of book, ''World History: Continuity and Change'', the entry on the Ten Commandments skeptically describes them as "Moral laws Moses '''claimed''' to have received from the Hebrew G-d Y-hweh on Mount Sinai," while the very same glossary states the [[Qu'ran]] is a "Holy Book of Islam containing revelations received by Muhammad from G-d.” <ref>http://www.israelnationalnews.com/SendMail.aspx?print=print&type=0&item=127797</ref><br />
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One textbook publisher, ''Teachers Curriculum Institute'', has agreed to rewrite its unit on the Middle East after being challenged, and consulting many scholars. The San Francisco-based Jewish Community Relations Council found that the textbooks were so filled with inaccuracies and biased that they should not be used.<ref>San Francisco Jewish Community Publications, Friday, February 13, 2004</ref><br />
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Professor, Larry Schweikart notes that most textbooks tend to come from New York, Boston, Washington and Philadelphia, all liberal bastions. As concerns American history, Schweikart sees the "Reagan test" as a consistent indicator of whether a book is politically slanted. The majority of books he has examined credit former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with ending the Cold War, while marginalizing Reagan.<ref>[http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/11/president-reagan-gets-the-shaft-in-textbooks/print/ Fox News, March 11, 2010]</ref><br />
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The Intercollegiate Studies Institute conducted extensive surveys in 2006 and 2007 of 14,000 college freshmen and seniors at fifty colleges nationwide, aimed at determining the impact a college education has on civic knowledge. The study resulted in the average freshman and the average senior scoring just over 50% on a sixty-question multiple-choice exam on fundamental knowledge of America's history and institutions. An additional survey of 2,508 American adults resulted in the average college graduate scoring 57% in a thirty-three-question basic civics test, correctly answering only four questions more than the average high school graduate.<br />
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While scores indicated a college education resulted in little advance in knowledge of American history and institutions, an often significant increase in favoring liberal ideology was seen over those who were not college graduates. In addition, those with the highest degrees were the most liberal.<ref>[http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2010/major_findings_finding1.html Intercollegiate Studies Institute,] ''The Shaping of the American Mind.''</ref><br />
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James Piereson, in analyzing changes in higher education in America, comments on the growth of the ''liberal university'', and which was then displaced by the ''left university'' during the revolutionary years of the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, with its alterations becoming institutionalized in the years that followed. Some of the noted resultant changes are that,<br />
{{cquote|single-sex colleges all but disappeared; college regulation of student morals disappeared as well; government regulation of employment expanded, putting pressure on institutions to hire women and minorities for faculty positions; the line between teaching a subject matter and advocating political positions was blurred or even eliminated altogether as the new campus radicalism asserted that all teaching is political in nature; the liberal underpinnings of academic culture--the freedom to teach and conduct research--were attacked and eroded in the name of political correctness; the unifying character of the humanities was subverted and discredited when they were said to represent an oppressive tradition formed by white European males; new fields, usually with ideological preconceptions, were created outside the traditional departments and areas of study, thus expanding the positions available for radical faculty; serious academic requirements, including foreign language proficiency, were softened or eliminated.<br />
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...the radicals of the 1960s went further to launch a wholesale attack on American culture and the middle-class way of life, which they condemned as repressive and, worse, boring. The cultural radicalism of the 1960s, derived from the Beats of the 1950s, was so appealing to the new campus left because it promised something beyond political reform--namely, a different way of life with a revised set of morals...<ref>[https://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=6120&R=163E436DC8VI James Piereson, ''The Left University'', part VI], The Weekly Standard, October 3, 2005 Volume 011, Issue 03</ref>}}<br />
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Related to this, in his State of the Union address of 2010, President Obama called for providing complete "forgiveness" of student loans to students who spend 10 years (with 120 continuous payments) employed in public service. However, this would be an extension of 2007 College Cost Reduction Act, which took effect in July 2009. Public service includes government and non-profit work, but excludes employment in religious instruction or proselytization.<ref>[http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-24922.pdf Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 206 / Thursday, October 23, 2008 / Rules and Regulations, Section 685.219—Public Service Loan, p. 15.27]</ref> In addition to increasing the [[national debt]], this provision may be seen as being conducive to further promoting an entitlement mentality, and populating government with those who often manifest and propagate the same.<br />
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===History of Progressive Education===<br />
<br />
Progressives have a very long history of using the schools as a vehicle to advance their agenda. Going as far back as the turn of the 20th century, leaders such as [[John Dewey]] have subverted the educational system to achieve specific ends. [[Woodrow Wilson]], for example, said the following in 1909:<br />
<blockquote>The purpose of a university should be to make a son as unlike his father as possible. By the time a man has grown old enough to have a son in college he has specialized. The university should generalize the treatment of its undergraduates, should struggle to put them in touch with every force of life. Every man of established success is dangerous to society. His tendency is to keep society as it is. His success has been founded upon it. You will not find many reformers among the successful men. A man told me once that he left college interested in humanity. At 40 he was interested only in an industry to which he had applied himself. At 60 he was interested only in his bank account. Any social change affects that bank account. Society cannot progress without change.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Link|first1=Arthur S.|title=The papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 19|date=1975|publisher=Princeton University Press}}</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=fpk8AAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+purpose+of+a+university+should+be+to+make+a+son+as+unlike+his+father+as+possible.%22&dq=%22The+purpose+of+a+university+should+be+to+make+a+son+as+unlike+his+father+as+possible.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I136VOP8J4O_ggSr9oPoDg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA Retrieved March-6-15</ref></blockquote><br />
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The Blaze has also speculated that progressive education may have even had its roots as early as 1865 at least, possibly as early as the early 1800s due to America using European graduate schools to compensate the lack of their own during the time they had been adopting radical philosophies from [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]], [[Benedict de Spinoza]], [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]], [[David Friedrich Strauss|D. F. Strauss]], [[Karl Marx]], [[Charles Darwin]], Spencer, and [[Auguste Comte]], among others.<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/contributions/why-liberals-think-being-educated-means-being-liberal</ref><br />
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==Quotes about teaching==<br />
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* [[Galileo Galilei]]: "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."<ref>[http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/eduquote.htm Quotes on Education]</ref><br />
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* [[George Orwell]]: "the present-day attitude towards education is enormously more humane and sensible than that of the past."<ref>http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/such-such-were-the-joys.htm</ref><br />
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* [[Theodore Roosevelt]]: "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."<br />
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* "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."<br />
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* "There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility."<br />
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* "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."<br />
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* [[Thomas Sowell]]: "We pay a lot of lip service to educational excellence. But too many institutions and individuals that have produced good educational results for minority students have not only failed to get support, but have even been undermined."<ref>[http://www.creators.com/conservative/thomas-sowell/are-we-serious-about-education.html Are We Serious About Education?]</ref><br />
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* "We know from rigorous research that the impact on student achievement that comes from having a good versus average teacher clearly trumps the effect of smaller class sizes."<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist|colwidth=35em}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Citizens For Excellence In Education]]<br />
*[[Homeschooling]]<br />
*[[Liberal Myths About Education]]<br />
*[[Pygmalion effect]]<br />
*[[American Council of Trustees and Alumni]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml U.S. Department of Education], the major federal agency for education in the U.S.<br />
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ National Center for Education Statistics], an excellent research resource for educational statistics.<br />
* [http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ National Assessment of Educational Progress], for researchers and educators interested in assessment issues.<br />
* [http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-294.html A history of the modern homeschool movement], from the Cato Institute.<br />
* [http://www.nheri.org National Home Education Research Institute], a research resource for homeschoolers.<br />
* [http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2007/marapr/features/dweck.html The Effort Effect] - According to a Stanford psychologist, you'll reach new heights if you learn to embrace the occasional tumble.<br />
* [https://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/hl1013.cfm Why Won't Politically Correct Professors Teach English and American Literature?] - Dr. Elizabeth Kantor at '''[[Heritage Foundation|The Heritage Foundation]]''' talks about why English professors don't seem to want to teach English and American literature, and about why the consequences of that failure are more important than you might think.<br />
* [http://www.aim.org/wls/category/education/ What Liberals Say - Category: Education], [[Accuracy In Media]]<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/bendingtwigrevol00ruddrich Bending the twig; the revolution in education and its effect on our children], an out of copyright book(according to Archive.org) detailing some of the roots of [[Progressive Education]].<br />
[[The School Choice Show]]<br />
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'''Public schools in the [[United States]]''' are government-sponsored institutions intended to indoctrinate children up through 12th grade. They are generally split into lower-level "Grade School," "Middle School" and "High School." There are also some "Technical Schools" for training in specific skills.<br />
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Public schools have become predominantly [[liberal]] and [[atheistic]]<ref>[http://www.exodusmandate.org/art_exodus_from_public_schools_gets_helping_hand.htm Exodus from "public schools" gets a helping hand], Exodus Mandate, Sept 15, 1998</ref><ref>For example, "in 2005, officials at East Brunswick High School adopted a policy prohibiting representatives of the school district from participating in student-initiated prayer." [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=61806]</ref><ref>From 2004 to 2006, a [[public school]] banned [[Bible]] study by children ... ''during recess''. A teacher complained about the use of the Bible and the principal then censored the study activity, according to a sworn statement by a teacher told to stop it. Principal "Summa, having learned of a complaint by a teacher and of the students' Bible study, told fourth-grade teacher Virginia Larue to nix the group's recess meeting. ... Larue later told one of Luke's Bible study colleagues the group could no longer meet at recess."[http://knoxnews.com/news/2008/jan/03/recess-bible-study-spurs-lawsuit/]</ref><ref>[[Atheists]] routinely impose their views on [[public schools]], though liberals deny it. For example, a court prohibited a moment of silence in [[Illinois]] "Township High School District 214 after atheist activist Rob Sherman challenged" it.[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-moment_of_silence_bothmay30,0,7722271.story]</ref><ref>[https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/34408-firsthand-account-of-deep-state-in-public-schools Firsthand account of Deep State in Public Schools]. ''The New American''. December 22, 2019. Retrieved December 23, 2019.</ref> government institutions that employ 3 million people and spend more than $410 billion annually at a cost of more than $10,000 per student. [[Liberals]] censor [[classroom prayer]], the [[Ten Commandments]], sharing of [[faith]] in classrooms during school hours, and teaching [[Bible]]-based [[morality]].<ref>''See, e.g.'', ''[[Stone v. Graham]]'' (1980) (excluding Ten Commandments from public school).</ref><ref>A public school banned [[Bible]] study by children ... ''during recess''. A teacher complained about the use of the Bible and the principal then censored the study activity, according to a sworn statement by a teacher told to stop it. [http://knoxnews.com/news/2008/jan/03/recess-bible-study-spurs-lawsuit/]</ref> Mandatory [[Homosexual Agenda|homosexual indoctrination]] is common as early as elementary school in more [[liberal]] states.<ref>http://www.massresistance.org/media/video/brainwashing.html</ref> The failures of underperforming public schools are a paradigm of [[socialism]], along with [[landfills]] and the [[Canada|Canadian]] health care system.<br />
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The following are characteristics of US public schools:<br />
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*30% of public school students fail to graduate from [[high school]],<ref name="graduate">"Only 70% of all students in public high schools graduate, and one study found that only 32% of all students in the high school class of 2001 left high school qualified to attend four-year colleges."[http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/ewp_03.htm]</ref> and more 40% of minorities fail to graduate;<ref>"Only 71 percent of kids graduate from high school within four years, and for minorities, the numbers are even worse -- 58 percent for Hispanics and 55 percent for African Americans," [Bill Gates] wrote. "If the decline in childhood deaths [in developing countries] is one of the most positive statistics ever, these are some of the most negative."[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/29/AR2009032901353.html?wpisrc=newsletter]</ref> the real drop-out rate may be 50%.<ref>http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/47272207.html</ref><br />
*Nearly 70% of students leave high school unqualified to attend four-year college, and many are unable to hold a steady job.<ref name="graduate"/><br />
*A 2007 study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that 77% of students between eighth and 12th grade had used illicit drugs.<ref>According to Monitoring the Future, a study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, illicit drug use is up among students between eighth and 12th grade. In 1991, 62 percent had used illicit drugs. In 2007, the number jumped to 77 percent. [http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20081207/NEWS08/812070305/1002]</ref> Fatal overdoses are common but underreported.<ref>Fatal overdoses are common, although often underreported.[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E5DB123EF932A25750C0A9629C8B63 Reporting of a heroin overdose by 16-year-old [[public school]] student was an exception to the underreporting].</ref> Public schools are required to present "[[drug education]]" to students.<br />
*More than 60% of public school teenagers (in one regional study) watch more than 3 hours of television a day, compared with a national average of 35%<ref>http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/dec/01/memphis-youth-make-progress-on-risky-behavior/ (study of Memphis students)</ref><br />
*About half of the viable pregnancies among girls attending public school end in [[abortion]]s and about half end in birth. Public schools "[[Sex education|educate]]" kids about sex.<ref>"There is zero shame [to [[teenage pregnancy]]]," the school nurse observed.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/12/AR2008121203507.html]</ref><br />
*"About 160,000 students miss school daily because they [[fear]] being [[Bully|bullied]]," and students viciously fight each other and post videos of it on [[YouTube|YouTube.com]].<ref>One victim is now "being [[homeschooled]] at state expense."[http://starbulletin.com/2008/05/18/news/story01.html]</ref> <br />
*20% of students had been dangerously "[[binge drinking]]" in the previous 30 days, and 50% of seniors regularly drink illegally, according to a 2007 study of Ottawa County, Michigan.<ref>The Grand Rapids Press The Grand Rapids Press: Ottawa County confronts teen drinking, By Greg Chandler, December 04, 2008 [http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2008/12/ottawa_county_confronts_teen_d.html]</ref><ref name="Oregon">http://www.mlive.com/chronicle/news/index.ssf/2008/12/ottawa_co_youth_survey_surpris.html</ref><br />
*10-20% of students become [[Addiction|addicted]] to [[cigarettes]]<ref name="Oregon"/><ref>http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/dec/01/memphis-youth-make-progress-on-risky-behavior/</ref><br />
*More than 10% of public high schools have a [[Homosexuality|homosexual]] student club.<br />
*The majority of public school students are completely ignorant about the Bible, even as [[Bible history|history]] and literature<br />
*35% of students are overweight.<br />
*Health screening of public schools in Memphis, Tennessee, found that nearly 10% of students have mental health problems.<br />
*California public schools, largest in the nation, now rank at the bottom in academic achievement.<br />
*Public schools are among the main locations where [[socialism]] is promoted.<ref>Cunningham, Andrew (March 11, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/how-did-socialism-become-okay-in-america-through-the-schools How did socialism become okay in America? Through the schools]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved March 11, 2019.</ref><br />
{{See also|Public school culture}}<br />
==History==<br />
===Religious origins===<br />
In 1647, [[Massachusetts]] [[Puritans]] enacted the second law, after Scotland in 1616,<ref>The Social, Economic & Political Reasons for the Decline of Gaelic in Scotland [http://www.scottishhistory.com/articles/highlands/gaelic/gaelic_page1.html]</ref> establishing universal public [[school]]s in the English-speaking world to block the attempts by "ould deluder Satan to keepe men from the whole knowledge of the Scriptures".<ref>''Family Encyclopedia of American History'' (Reader's Digest 1975)</ref> Each settlement larger than 50 families was required to pay a [[teacher|schoolmaster]] to teach reading, writing and religious doctrine to the [[children]] in the community. Beginning in 1670, Massachusetts provided [[taxation|tax]] funding for school maintenance. This model was then copied throughout the colonies, and even throughout the world.<br />
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====Curricula used====<br />
According to [[Noah Webster]], "the books used were chiefly or whole Dilworth's Spelling Books, the Psalter, Testament and Bible".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DYVX2qf5xIAC&pg=PA118|last1=Gutjahr|first1=Paul C.|title=An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880|date=1999|work=[[Stanford University]] Press|pages=118}}</ref> Other sources such as the U.S. Office of Education note the following books used: The ABC, the Horn Book, the New England Primer, the Bible, Catechisms, and the Psalters.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gwENAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA8-PA19|title=Statistics of Land-grant Colleges and Universities, Volume 1, Issues 1-26|date=1921|work=Office of Education|pages=18–19}}</ref><br />
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''[[The New England Primer]]'' is of particular note given its widespread use over such a long period of time.<ref name=encyclopedia>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e6YoCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA874|title=Encyclopedia of Christian Education, Volume 3|date=2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|pages=874}}</ref> The ''Primer'', also known as ''The Little Bible'', was in use in schools for over 150 years.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-New-England-Primer The New-England Primer], [[Encyclopedia Britannica]]</ref><br />
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===Importation of the Prussian model===<br />
In the mid 19th century, [[Horace Mann]], an early education reformer, studied the methods of [[Prussian Education]] and brought them back to the [[United States]]. According to [[John Dewey]]:<br />
{{cquote|Horace Mann and the disciples of [[Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi|Pestalozzi]] did their peculiar missionary work so completely as intellectually to crowd the conservative to the wall. For half a century after their time the ethical emotion, the bulk of exhortation, the current formulae and catchwords, the distinctive principles of theory have been found on the side of progress, of what is known as reform. The supremacy of self-activity, the symmetrical development of all the powers, the priority of character to information, the necessity of putting the real before the symbol, the concrete before the abstract, the necessity of following the order of nature and not the order of human convention - all these ideas, at the outset so revolutionary, have filtered into the pedagogic consciousness and become the commonplace of pedagogic writing and of the gatherings where teachers meet for inspiration and admonition.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JXkBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA332|last1=Dewey|first1=John|title=Journal of Proceedings and Addresses|date=1901|work=[[National Education Association]]}}</ref>}}<br />
Mann would travel to [[Prussia]] in 1843 to visit the schools and study them.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UrxSUMN4-FsC&pg=PA224|last1=Karier|first1=Clarence J.|title=The Individual, Society, and Education: A History of American Educational Ideas|date=1986|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0252013096|quote="In 1843, it was these Pestalozzian practices which so impressed Horace Mann on his visit to the Prussian Schools.}}</ref><br />
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====Secularization====<br />
According to historian Ellwood Cubberly:<br />
{{cquote|He(Horace Mann) will always be regarded as perhaps the greatest of the "founders" of our American system of free public schools. No one did more than he to establish in the minds of the American people the conception that education should be universal, non-sectarian, and free, and that its aim should be social efficiency, civic virtue, and character, rather than mere learning or the advancement of sectarian ends.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_tEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA167|last1=Cubberley|first1=Ellwood. P|title=Public Education in the United States: A Study and Interpretation of American Educational History; an Introductory Textbook Dealing with the Larger Problems of Present-day Education in the Light of Their Historical Development|date=1919}}</ref>}}<br />
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John Dewey regarded Horace Mann as the "patron saint of progressive education."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t7QTC8NuGL8C&pg=PA181|last1=Dewey|first1=John|title=The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1935-1937|publisher=SIU Press|date=1987}}</ref><br />
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===20th century===<br />
Many children did not attend public school for the first two centuries. It was not until 1852 that Massachusetts became the first state to require attendance<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7V83obZcnvkC&pg=PA34|last1=Mathison|first1=Sandra|last2=Ross|first2=E. Wayne|title=Battleground : Schools|date=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|quote=""Mann was eventually successful, and in 1852 Massachusetts passed the first compulsory education laws in North America."}}</ref> by students aged 6 through 16, and it was not until 1918 that all states had [[compulsory attendance]] laws. High schools did not generally exist until after the [[Civil War]], and the first American [[kindergarten]] didn't exist until 1856 in Watertown, Wisconsin.<br />
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==Improvement of early childhood education==<br />
Many public schools have launched pre-kindergarten programs for 3 and 4-year-old children. Some states have shifted from half-day kindergartens to programs that match the school day schedule of the other grades. Currently, 14 states and the District of Columbia require full-day kindergarten. <br />
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Research has demonstrated the importance of testing third graders for reading ability. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia require non-proficient readers to repeat third grade if they fail a reading test.<br />
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Historically, early childhood education focused on reading and writing. However, the research shows that young children's minds are receptive to math and logic. So public schools are adding Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM Education) to the lower grades.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/strengthening-the-kindergarten-third-grade-continuum.aspx|title=Strengthening the Kindergarten-Third Grade Continuum|date=December 21, 2016|accessdate=June 17, 2017}}</ref><br />
==Views on morals==<br />
[[File:Public School Bulletproof Glass.jpeg|thumb|right|In response to increasing violence in public schools, public schools are installing security devices such as metal detectors and bullet-proof glass]]<br />
===So-called "character education"===<br />
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In response to the perception that public schools have stopped teaching morality, many state education departments have or are in the process of developing "morality" that avoid good and evil, right and wrong, and instead present under the heading of "character" education.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3971/is_199910/ai_n8866284]</ref> The lack of appreciation for right and wrong can surprise outsiders, and even school principals. When one public school student was charged with [[felony]] [[computer crime]] for altering the grades of 20 students, the principal said, we "want to teach them what's right and wrong, and it's tough for some kids to catch on to the idea that changing grades is the wrong thing to do."<ref>http://cw2.trb.com/news/kwgn-student-grade-felony,0,7871401.story</ref> The impact of the removal of morality from the [[public school]] curriculum (which is also used in private schools) is that "more than one in three boys (35 percent) and one-fourth of the girls (26 percent) — a total of 30 percent overall — admitted stealing from a store within the past year."<ref>http://charactercounts.org/programs/reportcard/index.html</ref> Liberal politicians are the most frequent opponents of initiatives designed to build moral fiber in the public school system, with organizations like the [[ACLU]] and teacher's unions devoting a significant amount of their resources towards this end. In 2010, a school board in [[North Dakota]] decided to change the name of their mascot from the "Satans." Liberals unrolled a large-scale media campaign that blanketed the district with pro-Satan propaganda in an attempt to keep the name, but they were unsuccessful.<ref>http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-11/news/ct-perspec-0311-things-20120311_1_devil-man-great-deceiver-native-americans</ref><br />
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=== Prayer ===<br />
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{{See also|Classroom prayer}}<br />
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The White House announced the release of Revised Religious Guidelines for America's Public Schools on May 29, 1998. Within this announcement, President [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] stated, "Nothing in the [[First Amendment]] converts our public schools into religion-free zones, or requires all religious expression to be left behind at the school house door."—President Clinton, July 12, 1998<ref>http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/05-1998/wh-0530.html</ref> <br />
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In 2003, the Education Department released the following guidelines that clarified and added requirements to Public Schools to ensure the religious rights of students.<ref>http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=17550</ref> <br />
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Schools that don’t allow students to pray outside the classroom or that prohibit teachers from holding religious meetings among themselves could lose federal money, the Education Department said late last week.<br /><br />
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The guidance reflects the [[George W. Bush|Bush]] administration’s push to ensure that schools give teachers and students as much freedom to pray as the courts have allowed.<br /><br />
The department makes clear that teachers cannot pray with students or attempt to shape their religious views.<br />
The instructions, released by the department on Feb. 7, broadly follow the same direction given by the [[Clinton administration]] and the courts. Prayer is generally allowed provided it happens outside the class and is initiated by students, not by school officials.<br /><br />
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The department, however, also offered some significant additions, including more details on such contentious matters as moments of silence and prayer in student assemblies. And for the first time, federal funds are tied to compliance with the guidelines. The burden is on schools to prove compliance through a yearly report.<br />
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===Teaching the Bible in public schools ===<br />
The [[National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools]]<ref>http://www.bibleinschools.net/</ref> (NCBCPS) provides a program for teaching the Bible in public schools. Currently, the NCBCPS's Bible curriculum has been voted into 462 school districts (over 1,900 high schools) in 38 states. Over 210,000 students have already taken this course nationwide, on the high school campus, during school hours, for credit.<br />
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However, many public schools suffer from a [[liberal bias]], resulting in policies opposed the Bible and Christianity, while topics favored by leftists, such as other religions or the [[homosexual agenda]], are promoted.<br />
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===Teaching of Islam in the public schools===<br />
Public school textbooks have been found to be portraying [[Islam]] in a positive light. Some world history textbooks in [[Florida]] claim ''Muslims profess to worship the same God as Christians and Jews'', women historically had more rights in the Islamic world than the Christian world, and [[Jihad]] is not a violent movement, among other falsehoods. These lies have caused patriots some areas of the state to complain to local school boards, but not much has been done by the boards to actually remove the Islamic propaganda.<br />
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In California seventh grade social studies classes, students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of Islam in the Middle Ages. Hence, Islam is one of eleven units taught in the class.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/islam.asp|title=Islam Studies in California Schools|date=April 5, 2015|accessdate=July 30,3027}}</ref><ref>Nazarian, Adelle (February 2, 2015). [https://www.breitbart.com/california/2015/02/02/is-islamic-indoctrination-being-taught-in-la-public-schools/ Is Islamic Indoctrination Being Taught in LA Public Schools?] ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 30, 2017.</ref> In addition, a [[San Diego]] school district worked with [[CAIR]] to add "anti-Islamophobia" classes.<ref>Moons, Michelle (April 23, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/04/23/san-diego-school-district-pushes-forward-cair-assisted-anti-islamophobia-plan-for-fall/ San Diego School District Pushes CAIR-Assisted ‘Anti-Islamophobia’ Plan]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 30, 2017.</ref><br />
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==Censorship==<br />
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Public schools enforce liberal ideology through aggressive censorship of right-wing and conservative students, including for speech or conduct occurring off school grounds. Conservatives, as well as some libertarian organizations, have challenged instances of school censorship under well-established legal precedent protecting free speech against all state actors, including public schools.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/ocean/index.ssf/2018/03/gun_group_says_it_will_sue_school_after_students_a.html|title=HS students' suspension over gun range photo ignites uproar, potential lawsuit|date=April 5, 2015|accessdate=July 30,3027}}</ref><br />
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==Gender disparity== <br />
Public schools as of late have seen girls' scores soar above boys' because schools have been geared toward the needs of girls and schools seek to emasculate boys by preventing healthy roughhousing and having psychiatrists prescribe boys drugs such as Ritalin. Then boys often come to hate school because radical feminists seek to prevent men from being men and forcing males to go through counseling to "discuss their feelings" and other liberal values treating all students as if they were female. Colleges, because of this trend, see a trend of 60/40 female to male ratio because of feminist drivel such as romance novels in literature and ineffective therapy and attempts to push feminine traits on boys and young men making them frustrated and fed up with the system unless they agree to the school's desire to become effeminate.<br />
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Schools commonly suspend students for defending themselves from violent bullying, even though that is illegal under the laws of all 50 states which protect the right to self-defense. <br />
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Liberal ideology has also eliminated most male role models in public schools, such that less than a quarter of the teachers are men now.<ref>http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=28</ref><br />
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In areas on such standardized tests as ACT and SAT, girls have typically scored higher in areas such as mathematics and science. Colleges have become majority female, and the feminization of men is strong on college campuses with events that openly advocate female superiority. Females are also intent on emasculating males by forcing them to see "chick flicks" and concerts of female singers which also promote feminist nonsense, strongly continuing a trend that begins in high school which results in a large number of males taking up historically female programs such as psychology and nursing; this begins in school where teachers and administrators teach boys and girls to be girls and not only condone but encourage such emasculation which only continues throughout the boys' lives as learned behaviors are strongest during the crucial formative years these boys are in school.<br />
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Most U.S. public schools receive federal funding. Those that do are subject to [[Title IX]] which among other things requires equal access to extra curricular activities and sports.<br />
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==Suppression and intolerance of alternative views==<br />
Several courts, including the [[U.S. Supreme Court]], which frequently engage in [[judicial activism]], have ruled that teaching [[creationism]]<ref>https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/482/578/case.html</ref> and [[intelligent design]] in public schools is unconstitutional because they claim that such teachings would amount to a government establishment of religion, which is prohibited by the First Amendment.<ref>''See'' ''Kitzmiller'', 400 F.Supp.2d at 765</ref> Hypocritically, nothing has been done to remove the religions of Secular Humanism and Islam from the schools.<br />
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==Educational outcomes==<br />
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===Declining literacy ===<br />
Since the rapid expansion and liberalization of public schools after [[World War II]], students' [[literacy]] levels have dropped significantly. While the average 14-year-old had a vocabulary of 25,000 words in 1945, the equivalent student in 2000 had a vocabulary of only 10,000 words, a severe disadvantage in an increasingly textual world.<ref>''Utne Reader'' (July–August 2000), 28-9.</ref><br />
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===Liberal bias in textbooks===<br />
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[[Textbook]]s (K-12) have been systematically analyzed in a study funded by the U.S. government. The 1986 findings were that massive, systematic [[liberal bias]] exists, resulting in several information blackouts in four key areas of modern American life&mdash;[[marriage]], [[religion]], [[politics]], and [[business]]. While an actual conspiracy was then ruled out, the cause was found to be a "a very widespread [[secular]] and [[liberal]] mindset" pervading "the leadership in the world of education [and textbook publishing]".<ref>''Censorship: Evidence of Bias in Our Children's textbooks'', [[Paul C. Vitz]], Servant Books, 1986, ISBN 0-89283-305-X</ref><br />
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Professor Larry Schwikart, of the [[University of Dayton]], wrote a book about biased textbooks. False claims common in those texts included that the [[Founding Fathers]] wanted a "wall of [[Separation of church and state|separation" between church and state]], that "[[Abraham Lincoln|Lincoln]] issued the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] only because he needed [[Black Soldiers in the Civil War|black soldiers]]", and that "[[Mikhail Gorbachev]], not [[Ronald Reagan]], was responsible for ending the [[Cold War]]".<ref>http://www.emailwire.com/release/20086-Controversial-Historian-on-the-Price-of-Business-Show.html</ref><br />
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Evidence for bias in school textbooks includes promotion of [[Homosexual]] agenda, support of liberal viewpoint, as well as support of the unproven theory of evolution. Most Biology textbooks do not provide the [[Creationist]] viewpoint a chance, or even a second thought.<br />
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===Non-Dismissal of tenured teachers===<br />
Due to the strength of the nation's teachers' [[Labor union|union]], it is nearly impossible to fire a bad performing teacher with [[tenure]]. The process can take years and involves countless steps to even attempt. The union claims that the protections are needed against arbitrary and malicious lawsuits.<br />
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The New York public schools system has approximately 700 teachers accused of insubordination to sexual misconduct. They remain in seclusion from the classroom but are paid full salaries until their cases are heard, sometimes from months to years later. All because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire them.<ref>[https://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/us_rubber_rooms/2009/06/22/227959.html 700 NYC Teachers Paid to Do Nothing] AP, June 22, 2009</ref><br />
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[[File:Pathtodismissal.JPG|center|thumb|800px| Flow chart for firing teachers in the nations second largest [[school district]], Los Angeles Unified School district]]<br />
== 4-day week ==<br />
In order to save on transportation costs and reduce time spent on travel, many states have been experimenting with holding school on four days a week leaving the fifth day for medical appointments and athletic events. In such programs, the school day is lengthened to provide the same number of hours per week of instruction. The option is more frequently used in large rural school districts. These states include: Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming and Washington. In states which have legislation permitting a 4-day school week, each school district decides whether to implement it. Arkansas, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Virginia and Washington have no schools using the option.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/educ/school-calendar-four-day-school-week-overview.aspx|title=Four-Day School Weeks|accessdate=June 17, 2017}}</ref><br />
==Notable graduates==<br />
=== Before 1962 ===<br />
Given that public schools educate about 90% of [[Americans]], it is astounding how few prominent Americans attended public school after the banning of school-sponsored prayer in 1962. Here is an impressive list of people who attended public schools ''before'' the banning of school-sponsored prayer.<br />
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*[[Ronald Reagan]]<ref>http://www.dixonil.com/reagan/reagan2.htm</ref> graduated from Dixon High School, Illinois<br />
*[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]<ref>http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/press_releases/2007/PR07_11_August_02_2007_Eisenhower_Co_Sponsor_Little_Rock.pdf</ref> attended Abilene High School in Abilene, Kansas<br />
*[[Richard M. Nixon]]<ref>http://www.nndb.com/edu/836/000068632/</ref> attended Fullerton and Whittier High Schools, California<br />
*[[Gerald Ford]]<ref>http://www.visitgrandrapids.org/ford-facts.php</ref> attended Grand Rapids South High School, Michigan<br />
*[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]<ref>http://www.nndb.com/people/062/000023990/</ref> attended Johnson City High School, Texas<br />
*[[Harry S Truman]]<ref>http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/103truman/103visual1.htm</ref> attended Independence High School, Missouri<br />
*[[H. Ross Perot]]<ref>http://www.famoustexans.com/rossperot.htm</ref> attended public schools and Texarkana Junior College, Texas<br />
*[[Richard Cheney]]<ref>http://www.nndb.com/people/598/000022532/</ref> graduated from Natrona County High School in Casper, Wyoming.<br />
*[[Colin Powell]] graduated from Morris High School, NY in 1954 and received his B.A. in geology from the City College of New York in 1958 <ref>http://gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/powell_c.htm</ref><br />
*[[Billy Graham]] graduated from Sharon High School, NC in May 1936<ref>http://online-bibleconcordance.com/Ministers/BillyGraham.aspx</ref><br />
*[[Michael Medved]] graduated from Palisades High School, CA <ref>michaelmedved.townhall.com/About.aspx</ref><br />
*[[The Wright Brothers]] attended public schools in Richmond, India and Dayton OH but did not graduate <ref>http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/inventor/wright/index.html</ref><br />
*[[Roy Jay Glauber]], Nobel laureate, graduated from Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY in 1941.<ref>http://www.nndb.com/people/738/000138324/</ref><br />
*[[Frederick Reines]], Nobel laureate, attended Union Hill High School, NJ, during the late 1930s.<ref>http://www.nndb.com/people/052/000099752/</ref><br />
*[[Oliver North]], US Army Officer, political commentator, graduated from Ockawamick High School in 1961.<ref>http://libraryoflibrary.com/E_n_c_p_d_Ollie_North.html</ref><br />
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=== After 1962 ===<br />
Here is a mostly unimpressive list of people who attended public school ''after'' school-sponsored prayer was banned in 1962:<br />
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*[[Brad Pitt]], actor, graduated from Kickapoo High School in Springfield, Missouri, 1981; dropped out of college.<ref>http://www.rolemodel.net/brad_pitt.cfm<br />
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*[[Tom Cruise]], actor, attended several public high schools including Glen Ridge High School, New Jersey during the 1970s.<ref>http://www.nndb.com/people/791/000022725/<br />
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*[[John Sununu]], former one-term Senator from [[New Hampshire]], graduated from Salem High School in the 1970s;<ref>http://www.sununu.senate.gov/biography.html</ref> claiming to be [[pro-life]], Sununu arranged for the nomination of [[David Souter]] to the [[U.S. Supreme Court]], where he then repeatedly voted on the side of [[abortion]]<br />
*[[John Edwards]], indicted in 2011 on allegations arising from his affair with a mistress, was a former one-term Senator from [[North Carolina]] and two-time unsuccessful candidate for nomination for president, attended public school in Robbins, N.C. during the 1960s.<ref>https://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2004/primaries/edwards_bio.html</ref> <br />
*[[Spike Lee]], producer, actor, graduated from John Dewey High School, Brooklyn, NY.<ref>http://movies.nytimes.com/person/99175/Spike-Lee/biography</ref><br />
*[[Laura Bush]] attended James Bowie Elementary School, San Jacinto Junior High School, and Midland Lee High School in Midland, Texas (Graduated 1964); came out in support of [[gay marriage]] and [[abortion]] in 2010.<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/laura-bush-supports-gay-marriage-abortion/story?id=10629213</ref><br />
*[[William J. Clinton]]<ref>http://www.hotsprings.org/things_to_do/historic_hotsprings/presidents_hometown.asp</ref> graduated from Hot Springs High School in Arkansas in 1964, and became the only president impeached in the 20th century.<br />
*[[Anthony Weiner]], a congressman who resigned in disgrace in 2011 after first denying but then confirming an indecent use of [[Twitter]], and later dropped out of the race for New York City Mayor following a second sex scandal, graduated from a public high school in [[Brooklyn]].<br />
*[[Steve Jobs]], founder of [[Apple Inc.]], graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, CA in 1972; his colleague, [[Steve Wozniak]], graduated from the same high school in 1968.<br />
*[[Eminem]], a liberal [[rapper]], repeatedly failed 9th grade in public school and ultimately dropped out.<br />
*[[Alan Colmes]], a liberal news commentator, attended public school in [[New York City]].<br />
*[[Sarah Palin]], vice presidential candidate on the [[Republican Party]] ticket in 2008 and favorite of some [[Tea Party]] groups, went to [[Wasilla High School]] and graduated in 1982 and then attended 5 different colleges before becoming more [[conservative]] later in life.<ref>http://outhouserag.typepad.com/outhouserag/2008/09/sarah-palin-198.html</ref><br />
*[[Rick Perry]], [[Texas]] governor, infringed on [[parental rights]] by requiring young girls to receive an HPV vaccine.<br />
*[[Kenneth D. Cockrell]], [[Texas]] Graduated from Rockdale High School, Rockdale, Texas, in 1968. A veteran of five spaceflights, Cockrell has logged more than 1,560 hours in space.<ref>http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/cockrell.htmll</ref><br />
*[[Russell Alan Hulse]], [[New York]] Graduated from Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, New York, in 1966. Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics.<ref name="alumni.bxscience.edu">http://alumni.bxscience.edu/?page=NotableAlumni</ref><br />
*[[Richard Axel]], [[New York]] Graduated from Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York, in 1963. Winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Axel</ref><br />
*[[Hugh David Politzer]], [[New York]] Graduated from Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, New York, in 1966. Winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics.<ref name="alumni.bxscience.edu"/><br />
*[[Christine O'Donnell]] graduated from Moorestown High School in 1987.<ref>[http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=201010100363&nclick_check=1 "Delaware politics: From middle-class New Jersey, moral activist Christine O'Donnell knew 'God was calling'", ''Delaware Online'']</ref><br />
*[[Scott Walker]] graduated from Delavan-Darien High School in 1986.<ref>[http://walworthcountytoday.com/news/2010/sep/07/rock-county-close-home-walker/ Ames, Ann Marie, "Rock County Close to Home for Walker", ''Walworth County Today'', Sept. 7, 2010]</ref><br />
*[[Paul Ryan]], an establishment [[Republican]], graduated from Joseph A. Craig High School, Janesville, WI in 1988.<ref>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/06/16/politics/wis-ryan/</ref><br />
*[[Sharron Angle]] (born 1949) graduated from Wooster High School in Reno, Nevada.<ref>[http://www.sharronangle.com/sharron-angle-biography "Sharron Angle, Biography"]</ref><br />
*[[Jon Huntsman]], Republican Presidential candidate and former Governor of Utah, attended Highland High School in Salt Lake City, Utah before he dropped out in 1978 to pursue a career as a rock and roll keyboardist.<ref>[http://www.jon2012.com/jon]</ref><br />
*[[Michelle Bachmann]], Republican member of the House of Representatives graduated from Anoka High School, Anoka, Minnesota in 1974.<ref>[http://www.startribune.com/local/north/129276683.html?refer=y]</ref><br />
*[[Mike Huckabee]], former Republican Governor of Arkansas, graduated from Hope High School, Hope Arkansas, in 1974.<ref>[http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=108]</ref><br />
*[[Benjamin Netanyahu]], Prime Minister of Israel, Graduated from Cheltenham High School, Wyncote, Pennsylvania, in 1967.<ref>[http://cheltenhamalumni.org/BIOS/netanyahu-benjamin.htm]</ref><br />
*[[Rand Paul]], Republican Senator, Graduated from Brazoswood High School, Clute, Texas in 1981.<ref>[http://politics.laws.com/rand-paul]</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Public school culture]]<br />
* [[The School Choice Show]]<br />
* [[Atheism and public schools]]<br />
* [[Parental rights]] (focusing on the rights of parents to control the education, upbringing and discipline of their children)<br />
* [[Education in the United Kingdom]]<br />
* [[Essay:Worst Liberal Falsehoods in School]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1610/466/Dumb_As_A_Rock:_You_Will_Be_Absolutely_Amazed_At_The_Things_That_U.S._High_School_Students_Do_Not_Know.html Dumb As A Rock: You Will Be Absolutely Amazed At The Things That U.S. High School Students Do Not Know]<br />
*[http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/03/28/9-notorious-teacher-sex-scandals/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058?test=latestnews 8 Bizarre Teacher Scandals You Won't Believe]<br />
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/31250-education-s-future-globalization-of-indoctrination Education’s Future: Globalization of Indoctrination], by Alex Newman of ''The New American, February 6, 2019.<br />
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/31260-benefits-of-homeschooling Benefits of Homeschooling], by Israel Wayne of ''The New American'', February 7, 2019.<br />
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/31230-the-case-for-christian-education The Case for Christian Education], by Israel Wayne of ''The New American'', February 7, 2019.<br />
*[https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/31271-get-them-out Get Them Out!], by Dr. Duke Pesta & Alex Newman of ''[[The New American]]'', February 8, 2019.<br />
*[https://www.theepochtimes.com/chapter-twelve-sabotaging-education-part-i_2636144.html Chapter Twelve: Sabotaging Education (Part I)], ''The Epoch Times'' (from ''How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World'').<br />
*[https://www.theepochtimes.com/chapter-twelve-sabotaging-education-part-ii_2657473.html Chapter Twelve: Sabotaging Education (Part II)], ''The Epoch Times'' (from ''How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World'').<br />
*[https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/public-schools-in-america-are-imploding...and-its-getting-worse Public schools in America are imploding…and it’s getting worse], by E. Jeffrey Ludwig, ''LifeSiteNews''.<br />
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<div>'''Education vouchers''', as used in Cleveland and other U.S. cities, permit parents of [[public school]] children to choose any public or private school for their children they wish. The presumption is that they will make a wiser choice about which school will help their children learn, than local or state bureaucrats would. <br />
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School voucher programs are most popular among inner-city blacks, and opposed most by the [[Democrats]] and [[teachers' unions]].<br />
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The main secular argument against vouchers (and other such programs, like [[charter school]]s) is that they take money away from a given school, which makes it more difficult for the teachers to provide quality education for the remaining students. While the result of a voucher program is good for the students who are able to take advantage of it, it severely disadvantages the remaining students, staff, and faculty.<br />
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Another argument against school vouchers is the concern that private schools (which have the legal right to decide their own curriculum and who they will and will not accept as students in most cases, race being a significant exception) will use the vouchers to accept only high-achieving students of outstanding character (and, in the case of Christian schools, only those who are Christians and hold to the school's specific doctrinal position), leaving the public schools "saddled" with the responsibility for non-Christian students and Christian students holding to differing doctrinal views, students with learning disabilities and students who would pose "disciplinary risks" (the latter being very loosely defined depending on whether the Christian school wants a student or not; school voucher opponents claim that this is used as a backdoor method of rejecting students based on race).<br />
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School vouchers are also opposed among some Christian groups, on the belief that once a school begins taking government money, it allows the government to potentially end up dictating what the school (and, where applicable, its sponsoring church) can and cannot teach. Charles F. Johnson, a [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]] minister and head of Pastors for Texas Children (a group opposing school vouchers), made the following comment expressing his concerns about the potential for government abuse in the school voucher arena:<ref>https://www.fwweekly.com/2018/02/28/the-pulpit-and-the-pendulum/</ref><br />
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<blockquote>"Religious liberty is a huge piece of Pastors for Texas Children,” he said. “We believe that if the state starts giving money to church schools, then the next step is the state’s going to tell that church school what curriculum they can use and the next step is to tell them what they can and cannot preach in the church school and what they can and can’t say in their congregation. We just don’t want the state getting their fingers into a church school that way."</blockquote><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[failing schools]]<br />
*[[No Child Left Behind]]<br />
*[[Religiosity and the growing use of vouchers and homeschooling]]<br />
*[[The School Choice Show]]<br />
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*[https://www.newsmax.com/US/US-Louisiana-School-Vouchers/2013/09/18/id/526451 La. Gov. Jindal Demands Feds Drop School Voucher Suit] - 18 Sep 2013<br />
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<div>{{Failing schools}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[School choice]]<br />
*[[Charter school]]s<br />
*[[Educational reform]]<br />
*[[The School Choice Show]]<br />
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<div>The '''school choice''' movement seeks to improve education<ref>"Competition through school choice would improve education." [https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/01/27/the_speech Cal Thomas]</ref> <br />
by allowing parents the right to choose alternatives to [[public school]] for their children. Vouchers that enable parents to take their tax money and spend it on educational alternatives are often advocated to achieve this.<br />
It was initially championed by economist [[Milton Friedman]] and his wife Rose in the late 1960s.<br />
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As of 2007, school choice is available only in very limited ways and only to a tiny percentage of the population. [[Wisconsin]] and [[Ohio]] have had very small programs. [[Florida]] has a voucher program and also has an online alternative to brick and mortar public school, known as Florida Virtual School.<br />
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In addition to [[School vouchers|vouchers]] for [[private school]] and [[homeschooling]] options, some states offer a choice, for those who choose the public school system, in which public school their children will attend. This is sometimes called ''open enrollment''. School districts in [[Florida]] have an open enrollment system although traditional [[dictatorship]] still applies to the [[school bus]] system, and those who choose to attend a school where buses are unavailable are required to find alternate transportation. In regions where open enrollment does not exist in public schools, a [[communist]] style dictatorship determines what school public school students will attend, which can be particularly a problem where homeschooling is prohibited or unfeasible and no good private schools exist or are affordable.<br />
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A ''[[Washington Times]]'' editorial explains:<br />
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:School choice is about as popular with teachers’ unions as crosses are at a convention of vampires. Big Labor only cares about maintaining the guarantee of lifetime employment without accountability based on performance. Nothing says “failure” more loudly than a bunch of students packing their book bags to head elsewhere.<ref>[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/28/crushing-school-choice/ EDITORIAL: Crushing school choice] - Administration plays the race card to appease teachers union</ref><br />
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Betsy DeVos, U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] Secretary of Education, has called the school choice movement an attempt to "empower" parents to find good schools for their children, whether they be traditional public schools in other neighborhoods, charter schools, virtual schools or private institutions.<ref> [http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/11/23/trump-devos-education/94344918/ Trump picks Betsy DeVos for education secretary post]</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Charter school]]s<br />
*[[Homeschooling]]<br />
*[[The School Choice Show]]<br />
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<div>The '''school choice''' movement seeks to improve education<ref>"Competition through school choice would improve education." [https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/01/27/the_speech Cal Thomas]</ref> <br />
by allowing parents the right to choose alternatives to [[public school]] for their children. Vouchers that enable parents to take their tax money and spend it on educational alternatives are often advocated to achieve this.<br />
It was initially championed by economist [[Milton Friedman]] and his wife Rose in the late 1960s.<br />
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As of 2007, school choice is available only in very limited ways and only to a tiny percentage of the population. [[Wisconsin]] and [[Ohio]] have had very small programs. [[Florida]] has a voucher program and also has an online alternative to brick and mortar public school, known as Florida Virtual School.<br />
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In addition to [[School vouchers|vouchers]] for [[private school]] and [[homeschooling]] options, some states offer a choice, for those who choose the public school system, in which public school their children will attend. This is sometimes called ''open enrollment''. School districts in [[Florida]] have an open enrollment system although traditional [[dictatorship]] still applies to the [[school bus]] system, and those who choose to attend a school where buses are unavailable are required to find alternate transportation. In regions where open enrollment does not exist in public schools, a [[communist]] style dictatorship determines what school public school students will attend, which can be particularly a problem where homeschooling is prohibited or unfeasible and no good private schools exist or are affordable.<br />
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A ''[[Washington Times]]'' editorial explains:<br />
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:School choice is about as popular with teachers’ unions as crosses are at a convention of vampires. Big Labor only cares about maintaining the guarantee of lifetime employment without accountability based on performance. Nothing says “failure” more loudly than a bunch of students packing their book bags to head elsewhere.<ref>[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/28/crushing-school-choice/ EDITORIAL: Crushing school choice] - Administration plays the race card to appease teachers union</ref><br />
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Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump's intended choice for Secretary of Education, has called the school choice movement an attempt to “empower” parents to find good schools for their children, whether they be traditional public schools in other neighborhoods, charter schools, virtual schools or private institutions.<ref> [http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/11/23/trump-devos-education/94344918/ Trump picks Betsy DeVos for education secretary post]</ref><br />
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*[[Charter school]]s<br />
*[[Homeschooling]]<br />
*[[The School Choice Show]]<br />
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