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Tests and conservatives: the beat goes on
American schools are not doing worse than in earlier times. Evidence seems to be that they are doing better, with the most dramatic gains coming...
Humanist, 01/01/05 by Gregory Shafer · More from publication -
Ten years from now … - The Culture War
ten years after she had accused dozens of people of being witches--sending many to their deaths--Salem witch trial accuser Ann Putnam apologized to...
Humanist, 01/01/04 by Gregory Shafer · More from publication -
The common currents of imperialism
"We are there to reach out to love them and to save them, and as a Christian I do this in the name of Jesus Christ."--Franklin Graham "We are...
Humanist, 09/01/03 by Gregory Shafer · More from publication -
Effects of the 150-hour education requirement
EFFECTS OF THE 150-HOUR EDUCATION REQUIREMENT By William E. Shafer, J. Gregory Kunkel and Kathryn A. Hansen The 150-hour education requirement...
CPA Journal, The, 01/01/03 by Shafer, William E; Kunkel, J Gregory; Hansen, Kathryn A · More from publication -
What's literacy got to do with it?
Since the first rustic schoolhouses were raised in Puritan New England over 300 years ago, there has been an explicit belief in the economic,...
Humanist, 09/01/02 by Gregory Shafer · More from publication -
Another side of Thomas Jefferson: he was the icon who drafted the Declaration of Independence … the man who most ardently championed the fight for individual rights at a time when such notions were singed with controversy. And yet …
As we recall the words and deeds of the man perhaps most associated with American freedoms, we mustn't be ignorant of his unremitting campaign for...
Humanist, 01/01/02 by Gregory Shafer · More from publication -
RELIGION, POLITICS, and the Fear of Whole Language Education
Intellectual freedom and unbridled inquiry are dangerous, even subversive. When students are given license to speak in their family dialects, when...
Humanist, 09/01/01 by Gregory Shafer · More from publication -
Cinema and the American Malaise - Critical Essay
In keeping with the policy of the Humanist to accommodate the diverse cultural, social, political, and philosophical viewpoints of its readers,...
Humanist, 07/01/01 by Gregory Shafer · More from publication -
TESTS That Fail Democracy
The language of standardization appears to denote equity, of assuring that all children receive the same education. Behind the usages of these...
Humanist, 05/01/01 by Gregory Shafer · More from publication -
Vouchers, Lies, and Public Schools - Brief Article
In the war to dismantle the public schools for their business and religious constituents, the weapons of choice among most conservatives are...
Humanist, 03/01/01 by Gregory Shafer · More from publication
