Lynne Cheney is a scholar, author, and former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1986–1993), as well as the wife of former Vice President Dick Cheney. A longtime advocate for education reform and academic standards, she contributed articles to The Weekly Standard focusing on issues in American education. She is also a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
WITH ITS PICTURES of earnest schoolchildren busily learning, Regie Routman's book doesn't look dangerous. But like many textbooks used in colleges of education, Invitations: Changing as Teachers and Learners K-12 (Heinemann, 1994) may be keeping thousands of children from mastering basic academic…
"They lied to me," says Madalyn McDaniel of Atascadero, California. "They completely betrayed me." At a parents' night at the local high school, McDaniel was told about a great opportunity for her son: the Interactive Mathematics Program, in which he would learn everything taught in traditional…
Kids, the hotly debated film about underage teenagers, casual drugs, and even more casual sex, should be required viewing for the House and Senate conferees who will shortly decide the fate of the National Endowment for the Arts. The movie and the story of its director, Larry Clark, help explain…