http://www.commentaryusa.com The RSS feed of the latest 10 Public Schools articles at Commentary USA en http://www.commentaryusa.com/commentary/public-schools/evolution-150-years-of-lies-and-deceit.html 2009 is the 150th anniversary of the introduction of the Theory of Evolution through the publication of Origin of Species by Charles Darwin in 1859. Darwins theory became the basis for a belief syste http://www.commentaryusa.com/commentary/public-schools/programming-your-education.html Recently a friend and I were discussing what his daughter was learning at school. It seems they are teaching the second graders a new way of doing long addition by starting with the far left column i http://www.commentaryusa.com/commentary/public-schools/the-knowledge-crisis.html This article first appeared in www.NewWithViews.com, May 31, 2008.How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? --Proverbs http://www.commentaryusa.com/commentary/public-schools/at-risk-students.html At-Risk StudentsOne-third of all public school students currently in the 9th grade will not graduate high school on time, if at all (Youth Who Drop Out: One-third of Those Who Enter High Schools D http://www.commentaryusa.com/commentary/public-schools/the-age-of-the-human-race.html Through the last decades science has struggled to estimate the age of the human race. Obviously, evolution would insist this occurred a long time ago, as it would take an incredible span of time for t http://www.commentaryusa.com/commentary/public-schools/thousands-are-functionally-illiterate.html This article was first printed in the Fayetteville Observer in June 2005, only a few weeks after the author resigned from teaching English in a public school. In fact, he wrote this article then re http://www.commentaryusa.com/commentary/public-schools/just-where-is-that-wall-of-separation-between-church-and-state.html Where is that Constitutional Wall of Separation between Church and State? By Burke A. Christensen Copyright Burke A. Christensen 2006 How do you reconcile the provision in the Constitution