 Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified. |
| Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused. |
| In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens. |
| Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child. |
| Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher. |
| Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults. |
| When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. |
| Same-sex marriage is not the future. |
| Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. |
| For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church. |
| The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution. |
| No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide. |
| Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults. |
| The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe. |
| I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be. |
| Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools. |
| To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. |
| When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments. |
| Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement. |
| Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years. |
