Editor’s note: As we near the centennial celebration of President Ronald Reagan’s birth—and as The Center for Vision & Values prepares for tonight’s Fifth Annual Ronald Reagan Lecture by Dr. Bill Bennett (click here to view the live webcast)—we’d like to connect a few … Continue reading
Education & Schools
Back to School, Back to the Books: The Value Behind Textbooks
The high price of college textbooks is getting a lot of press. Legislators are considering bills to bring down costs, such as requiring professors to use the least expensive “educationally sound” option. As I have read articles about the burden … Continue reading
Separation of School and State
The conservative Texas State Board of Education adopted sweeping changes to its social studies textbook curricula on Friday. Among the most controversial changes is the way “separation of church and state” will be presented to students. I wonder what the … Continue reading
Elizabeth Dole, North Way Pastor to Send Off College’s Largest Graduating Class
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Grove City College will send off its largest graduating class in school history with a Commencement ceremony headlined by former U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole. Dr. Jay Passavant, senior pastor of North Way Christian Community in Wexford, … Continue reading
The NEA and Healthcare Reform
Our nation’s teachers were unwittingly in the thick of last week’s dramatic healthcare summit hosted by President Obama. Whether they liked it or not, their union dues supported a public relations campaign in favor of big government healthcare. Politically savvy and seizing … Continue reading
Christopher Klicka: Warrior for Educational and Religious Freedom
A young dark-haired student, Chris Klicka, sat in my U.S. Constitutional History class at Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania around 1980. He was an excellent student with a particularly keen interest in questions about religious liberty and how that liberty … Continue reading
Why Don’t Students Like School?
The beginning of June brings the onset of summer vacation for children across the United States. The excitement bubbling in their young hearts is easy to understand yet also offers a valuable opportunity to reflect on why students tend to … Continue reading
Tom Dillon vs. the Relativists
Last week, as we at Grove City College held a conference on “Faith, Freedom, and Higher Education,” in which we underscored the struggle against rampant secular relativism in our universities, American higher education lost a true apostle of faith and freedom. A … Continue reading
Why Not Manage Universities, Mr. President?
Editor’s Note: A longer version of this article first appeared in American Thinker.I hear it repeatedly, even from pro-business conservatives:Hey, I have no sympathy for AIG and the automakers and banks. When you take government money, you can expect the government to … Continue reading
V&V PAPER — E.D. Hirsch Jr.: The Twentieth Century’s Liberal Conservative Educator
Editor’s note: “E.D. Hirsch Jr.: The Twentieth Century’s Liberal Conservative Educator” (6,389 words), by Dr. Jason R. Edwards, research fellow with The Center for Vision & Values and an associate professor of education and history at Grove City College. Media Inquiries: If … Continue reading
More Bailouts, More Fed
In the last week, the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve each announced a major policy initiative for the stated purpose of reversing our economic woes. Don’t hold your breath. The Treasury’s gambit is a proposed public-private partnership to remove … Continue reading
Viva La Revolucion
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article first appeared in American Thinker. Last week, before an audience of millions of Americans, the new president made a telling statement. Alluding to the American founders, President Barack Obama, in his Inaugural Address, stated: … Continue reading
V&V Q&A: America’s Economic Illiteracy Epidemic
Editor’s Note: The “V&V Q&A” is an e-publication from The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker that we hope will prove illuminating to readers everywhere. In … Continue reading
Educational Choice for the Obamas—What About Others?
Where will the Obama kids attend school in Washington? That question has been answered as it should be: by the new president and first lady. There is no argument about that. Sasha and Malia will attend Sidwell Friends School—private, religious, … Continue reading
Whatever Happened to the “Education President?”
The last three presidents clamored for the title but in 2008, the economy, terrorism, and “Saturday Night Live” skits have pushed education out of the media’s election circus.However, since Jimmy Carter’s election in 1976, American schooling has proven to be … Continue reading
The Search for “Higher” Education
Like swallows returning to Capistrano, spring always marks the flocking of parents with their high-school senior children to my college classroom. Nobly, parents take their charges on multiple tours of colleges and universities in order to make an informed choice … Continue reading
More or Less?
Thank you, Rahm Emanuel! Mr. Emanuel, a Democratic congressman from Illinois and former senior policy adviser to President Clinton, recently published several election-year policy proposals on the opinion page of The Wall Street Journal. The timing of Emanuel’s article was … Continue reading
V&V Q&A: On the Church and State and Public Education (with Dr. Jason Edwards)
Editor’s Note: The “V&V Q&A” is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker that we hope will prove illuminating to readers everywhere. In … Continue reading
The Sky is Falling: Blame the Christians
Sometimes my teenage daughter reacts to my wise sayings with her own form of wisdom. She says, “You know, sometimes, you just say words.”Although I am not completely sure my translation is correct, I think she means that she didn’t … Continue reading
Q&A with Dinesh D’Souza
Editor’s Note: This Q&A was completed and posted in October 2007. The “V&V Q&A” is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker … Continue reading