• The Importance of Playing in Child Development
• The Northern Area Alliance Against Highly Addictive Drugs saves teen lives
• Will proposed NCLB changes improve education?
• Time to submit opinions to the state on the PA proposed graduation requirements

• CEO is hosting a panel discussion on the proposed high-stakes exit (graduation) exams for Pennsylvania students.
• Beware: High Stakes Exit Exams Planned for PA Students

• Beware: High Stakes Exit Exams Planned for PA Students
• PVAAS - A new dimension in student evaluation
• Protecting Parental Rights

• End it or Mend it? - Reauthorizing NCLB
• Students continue to lag in literacy and U.S. History
• Congratulations to CEO's Woman of Character award recipients

• CEO's Women of Character Conference
• Wendy Shalit - Author of A Return to Modesty and Girls Gone Mild
• Marriage and Family - Keys to raising healthy, successful children

• Families vs. Government:  Who Should Raise the Children?
• Education News
• Upcoming Events

• Baby Ed is accelerating in PA
• Finding info on your school on the Internet
• Problems in Governor Rendell's Proposed Budget

• PA Legislative Alert - Mental Health Screenings for children and mothers
• The Nation's Report Card: "U" for Unacceptable
• National Teacher Certification - Fad or Reform?

• Does student computer use increase academic achievement?
• Are America's students losing the American Dream?

November-December 2006 - 91 KB

• Crazy Kids?  Mental health screenings for children
• Gender Update
• Miracle Math

• School-to-Work is mandated for PA
• Are the "Math Wars" really over?

• Looking at textbooks
• Looking at assigned literature

        Web Extra - To read an op-ed article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about books for

adolescents, click here.

        Web Extra - Click here to read Sol Stern's "The Ed Schools' Latest-and Worst- 

          Humbug: Teaching for 'social justice' is a cruel hoax on disadvantaged kids."

• American parents may lose authority over their children to the UN
• Earth Charter: A document that is transforming education

• The International Baccalaureate Programme - A Good Choice for American Schools?

• Universal Preschool Coming to PA
• TeenScreen - A Harmful Questionnaire
• PA Senate considering bill that would allow only "certified" citizens to serve on school boards

• PA Tot-Takeover - as PA Department of Education and State Board of Education plans unfold to develop standards and assessments for children aged Birth to 4 years old and to add preschool children to public schools
• Parents Rights Wronged - by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• All Kids Are Special - even gifted children
• The Commonwealth Foundation fiscal assessment of adding preschool children to public schools - click here for the special newsletter insert.

September-October 2005 - 74 KB

• Dr. Sandra Stotsky - "Securing Our Liberties" - the need to reform U.S. History and Civics education - Thursday, October 6
• "Securing Our Liberties" professional development program - Saturday, October 8
• Dr. Leonard Sax - "Why Gender MAtters" - Wednesday, November 2
• "Full Hearts and Empty Heads"

• "Securing Our Liberties" - An CEO Education Forum with Sandra Stotsky - Oct. 6
• "Securing Our Liberties" - A Professional Development Program
• Dr. Leonard Sax to speak in Pittsburgh on Nov. 2
• Proposed pre-k curriculum in PA

• The battle over sex ed in the public schools
• Exposing the myths of NCTM (fuzzy) math
• Making the most of educational classroom time
• Congratulations to the Commonwealth Freedom Award winners

        To read Kim Geyer's Education Enrichment and Empowerment Week, click here.

Boys are falling behind in education.  Science is proving that boys and girls are not the same!  Many of these findings can be applied to education so that boys (and girls) can have more success in school.

• Pennsylvania math standards earn a "D"
• More on mandatory mental health screenings
• Parents have rights with the PSSA and NAEP tests
• Boys are having education problems
• Federal government wants to track college students

Putting the Pieces Together

• Mandatory Mental Health Screenings
• Illinois: The Trial Balloon
• Legislation - Federal and PA
• NCLB and IDEA
• Data Collection
• Student State ID's
• Drugging Kids
• Schools and Teachers
• The Picture Emerges
• What's a Parent to do?

• Beverly Eakman Presentation - September 23, 2004
• Families Under the Microscope - government intrusion into families
• Americans are reading less and less

• Phonics - The proven method for teaching reading
• Unproven math programs
• Beverly Eakman - speaking at CEO Education Forum on September 23rd

• Leaving children behind with Accountability Block Grants
• Value-added assessments
• Nebraska's truly unique Accountability Plan
• Beyond Textbooks:  Fact or fiction?

• "Transformational Education" - Changing America's Schools
• States question NCLB
• Nurturing Narcissism
• "Pushouts"

• "Research-based" reforms
• Ending the "Reading Wars"
• Scrambling for wealth

• Will Gov. Rendell bring "Kiddie Ed" into PA?
• About Sen. Bachmann's noteworthy presentation at the CEO Ed Forum
• American students are getting too little homework!

• Nov. 6, 2003 - CEO Education Forum with MN state Sen. Michele Bachmann
• The ongoing war between traditional and progressive education philosophies

• One size fits all reforms
• Character Education
• School-to-Work spreads across PA
• Educating students as individuals

• What does Kentucky Education have to do with Pennsylvania?
• Are smaller classes better?
• PA Math Standards and Assessment
• Minnesota repeals their state standards

• Winners and Losers in Governor Rendell's tax scheme
• The Pennsylvania Youth Survey
• Protecting pupil privacy
• Important PA legislation
• Parent web site reviews student readings
• Chapter 4 review
• New CEO web site

• Blue Ribbon Schools
• Show me the money!
• "A Highly Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom"
• States implement NCLB

November - December 2002 - 68 KB

• What do PSSA scores mean?
• Ending educational fads
• The end of research papers
• Fleeing "dangerous schools"
• Reading is fundamental
• Education Notes

September - October 2002 - 78 KB

• The PSSA Conundrum
• Successful schools
• A Kentucky law stymies teachers
• "All Talk, No Action"
• Testing Mania

July - August 2002 - 89 KB

• No Child Left Behind - Coming to schools everywhere
• Education stories in the news
• The New Underclass - BOYS

May - June 2002 - 57 KB

• Protecting children's privacy
• Losing America's Past
• PA State Board of Education decisions
• Can states reject federal funds?

March - April 2002 - 61 KB

• School-to-Work - Reinventing K-12 Education
• Mandatory Multilingualism
• Peer Power
• Bureaucratic Shell Game

January - February 2002 - 72 KB

• State Seals Are Coming Soon
• The Self Esteem Cult
• "Unlimited Learning for Lifelong Labor"

November - December 2001 - 77 KB

• PA Legislature tackles cyber education
• Bill of Rights Week
• PSBA members force Chapter 4 issues
• What's a parent to do?

September - October 2001 - 54 KB

• Teachers Count!
• Are schools "Drug Free"?
• Rows or Circles?

July - August 2001 - 75 KB

• The Cyber Option
• "Ticket to Nowhere"
• Adding "value" to state assessments

May - June 2001 - 81 KB

• Parents Count!
• The SAT:  The Rest of the Story
• Hot Issues Update
• Hansel and Gretel - the environmentally correct version

March - April 2001 - 92 KB

• The e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g role of the government school
• Phonics Resurgence
• PSSA gains prominence
• Senate Bill supports homeschooling

January - February 2001 - 88 KB

• Calculators in the Classroom: The Digital Divide
• Vaccine Controversy
• Should schools teach death education?

November - December 2000 - 53 KB

• Historical Illiteracy - Take the test that many college students flunked!

September - October 2000 - 91 KB

• When B+ is the average grade
• New education report analyzes gains
• PSSA Hearings
• High Stakes Oops!
• Test prep affects schools

July - August 2000 - 86 KB

• Do surveys influence children?  By Arlene B. Seal, PhD
• Teacher testing and the PSSA
• What is the true cost of construction?  By Bill Adams
• SB 1283

May - June 2000 - 100 KB

• Achievement Tests vs. State Assessment Tests
• FInding the "Best Teacher"

March - April 2000 - 90 KB

• "Math Wars" - Saving math education
• CEO helps parents
• Measuring PS math standards
• Edufads

January - February 2000 - 34 KB

• Challenging the Academic Standards
• Breach of confidentially?
• Edufads
• Mental Detectors vs. Metal Detectors

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