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Sharia, Deen, and daily life in Islamic studies materials
Don’t Imbibe the Kool-Aid with Kim Kennedy – She traces the West’s misunderstanding through inherited translations, diplomatic convenience, and assumptions that familiar religious language must carry familiar meanings. Once embedded in law, she argues, those assumptions become difficult to challenge. Her proposed response begins with vocabulary. Learn what deen means. Examine the rules behind...
Can Colorado exclude Catholic preschools from funding?
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Catholic preschools challenge Colorado’s funding rules, arguing that secular exemptions undermine the state’s claim of equal treatment. The Supreme Court dispute tests whether access to public preschool funds can depend on admissions policies that conflict with religious beliefs about marriage, sexuality, and Catholic school identity...
Has the SAT lowered the bar because students can’t reach it?
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Changes to SAT reading passages raise questions about how colleges define readiness. Dean Bowen examines a comparative study and argues that shorter texts, fewer vocabulary questions, and less emphasis on background knowledge signal a troubling shift, while researchers stop short of judging overall test difficulty...
Schools knew. Parents weren’t told. Now the DOJ is suing.
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The DOJ has sued a Maryland school district because of a policy requiring staff to keep gender identity information from parents out of safety for the children. Imagine being told you could not access your child’s academic records without a subpoena! Harmeet Dhillon, the DOJ’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, said in...
Confucius Institutes and the role of US intermediaries
Dr. Li-Meng Yan w/ The Voice of Dr. Yan – Closing Confucius Institutes does not resolve concerns about Beijing’s influence if funding channels and partnerships survive under new names. The author calls for scrutiny of American intermediaries, replacement organizations, and talent recruitment, arguing that protecting educational openness requires clearer national security boundaries and institutional accountability...
Schools told parents to stay quiet. They fought back
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – School boards in New Jersey and Oregon change course as they buckle under the pressure of parents demanding their Constitutional rights. Litigation was brought against the school district by the Thomas More Society on behalf of Moms for Liberty. The settlement calls for the district to comply with U.S. Supreme Court precedents recognizing...
LA parents furious as district celebrates low test scores
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “Every parent has the right to expect that when their children are with us, they are receiving a high-quality education that includes everything their students need in order to succeed and thrive,” he said. “Until every student is at proficiency or higher, our work continues.” The parents agree, and they don’t want this celebration to become mere lip...
70% of teachers break with unions on school choice tax credit
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) passed a resolution in 2024 decrying publicly funded school voucher programs, claiming they are discriminatory. We’re uncertain how this particular program perpetuates racial and economic segregation while it opens up educational opportunities to every child no matter their race or economic situation...
Rubio’s speech reveals that America’s educational foundation is rooted in Athens
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “For the Greeks of antiquity, the pursuit of excellence was the very principle of man’s existence,” Rubio declared, and excellence should be the driving force of American education today. Where did American culture originate? Was it on board the Mayflower? Was it at Jamestown? Was it in medieval Europe?
Listen to Cuban and Venezuelan exiles on communism
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The exiles said Castro and Chavez initially garnered popular support by promising change and prosperity, a tantalizing prospect for the poor who were fed up with government corruption. But neither dictator delivered on those promises and both countries descended into more poverty...
The future of freedom rests with the rising generation
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Teaching children to be free begins with parents who model responsibility, discipline, and respect for differing opinions. When offense becomes grounds for punishment and disappointment invites outrage, the next generation needs guidance that connects liberty with self-control and prepares young people to think for themselves...
Would you trust AI to teach your child?
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The software claims to draw on platforms such as Khan Academy and Membean, while personalizing student pacing with children advancing only after mastering material. After students have “crushed their academics in under two hours,” the rest of the day involves workshops in public speaking, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, leadership, physical activity, and...
Brainwashing on campus: The hidden agenda behind DEI
Two Mikes on America Out Loud – The professors are generally committed “Critical Marxists” who shape their courses to give the students a “radical lens” through which to learn about America, its society and history, and the basic and nearly unanimous anti-Black racism prominent among Americans, especially white Americans, whom the DEI indoctrinators want to be viewed as being guilty of...
Is the crisis of confusion finally coming to a close?
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Fewer teens are claiming to be homosexual or bisexual after years of that number rising. “The trends are striking,” Twenge wrote on her blog, especially after comparing them with data from a decade ago. Twenge admitted to having no answer for the decline. “I have to confess: I have no idea.” After comparing the CDC’s data from the...
The hard read: How to conquer a difficult book
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The mastery of being human requires continuing education for the soul. That’s what you get when you tackle a great book. Lawyers, teachers, and those in other professions must take continuing education courses to certify mastery of content. It got me thinking... what would a course that covered mastery of being human look like?
From classrooms to chaos: Who is influencing America’s youth?
Unleashed: The Political News Hour with Susan Price – Last week, more than 3,600 students participating across 14 different Florida schools claimed they were exercising their 1st Amendment Right by protesting and supporting unity for illegal aliens. Yet many of these children used this opportunity to weaponize school rules to skip school and leave the grounds. This controversial issue raises...
Oregon school shooting: The heroes who stepped in give hope in the midst of tragedy
The Hidden Lightness with Jimmy Hinton – There is something deeply uncomfortable about searching for a positive message in a tragedy involving murdered children. The grief is unimaginable. The trauma experienced by witnesses and survivors is real. The families who must live with this loss deserve compassion, privacy, support, and prayers—not simplistic explanations or lectures on gun laws...
Parents on the level: A scholastic support system
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Angelina Farella – Parents deserve to know what their children learn and how schools spend their tax dollars. Marsha Metzger discusses concerns about social-emotional learning, curriculum transparency, and parental authority while offering practical resources to help families ask questions, evaluate educational options, and advocate for their children’s future...
Why 25% of teachers say they won’t be back in the classroom next year
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – When teachers feel like they don’t matter to their students, families, administrators, and other teachers, the flame of passion begins to die. They’re ready to move on to other career options. The school plays a role in this feeling. Private schools and classical charter schools have a culture that adds meaning to the work teachers are doing. Public schools...
Can current laws keep up with artificial intelligence?
Truth Be Told with Booker Scott – Artificial intelligence raises questions about who controls technology and whose rights the Constitution protects. A proposed 28th Amendment reserves constitutional human rights for human beings, while a call for public participation and critical thinking challenges Americans to help shape the future their children will inherit...
Why Edgar Allan Poe’s classic horror story is included amongst the great books
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – While some might only look at The Tell-Tale Heart as a horror story, Adler connects it to Aristotle’s Ethics. In this masterpiece, Aristotle argues that wickedness involves ignorance of two things: knowing what one ought to do, and what one ought to avoid. Essentially, knowing right from wrong. Robert M. Woods, a long-time student of Adler...
Homeschool students rank at the top of the class
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Homeschool students score significantly higher than the conventional school test norm group (weighted mean percentiles 74 to 82). The researchers noted that “These new data and findings help scholars, educators, policymakers, and the public in evaluating homeschooling’s current outcomes, informing policy debates, and...
How to stop the plague of socialism in America
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Instead of teaching our students that America is a democracy, we should be teaching them the truth: that America is a Constitutional Republic. Join us on today’s program as I delve into the differences between a democracy and a constitutional republic, and why one is detrimental to a nation and the other is the best form of government a nation can have...
The sex miseducation of America’s young people
After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – The controversy involving Cornell students should force an uncomfortable reckoning. Reports of university materials encouraging sexual experimentation raise a basic question: Why are schools pushing boundaries instead of teaching responsibility? Families pay enormous sums for an education. They should not have to wonder whether their children are...
Carville warns, Sanders doubles down: Democrats face a reckoning
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Bernie Sanders has made it clear that the Democratic Party no longer belongs to the Democrats. It has been infiltrated and is now solely owned by the Socialists. Sanders says if James Carville doesn’t get on board with the complete communist takeover of the Democratic Party, he can go start his own party. The infiltration of the Democrats is complete...
What they’re not telling you about 1492
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “Your Highnesses may believe that in all the world there can be no better or gentler people. Your Highnesses should feel great joy because presently they will be Christians and instructed in the good manners of your realms, for a better people there cannot be on earth,” wrote Columbus. Ae modern historians and educators lying to us about...
Reclaiming education from a system that has lost its purpose
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – In order to build this culture, teachers are part of a learning community where they are encouraged to continue their own learning journey. “Every couple of weeks, students have an early release day so teachers can engage in seminars about the great works of literature, theology, philosophy, math, and science,” Ortner noted...
Discrimination against homeschool graduates
Don’t Imbibe the Kool-Aid with Pastor David Whitney – Homeschool graduates face barriers when employers prioritize accreditation over individual qualifications. A Nebraska firefighter applicant’s experience underscores concerns about parental authority, educational freedom, and equal opportunity. The call for congressional action and church support centers on protecting families’ choices and judging graduates by their...
Here’s one more reason parents are demanding school choice
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – After recent multiple Supreme Court decisions surrounding girls’ sports and parents’ rights, including a decision in June that bars male participation in girls’ sports and rejects the notion that doing so would violate Title IX, Keeler is hopeful. The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied Keeler’s requests last month because they didn’t...
The influence of LGBT activism in America’s classrooms
Don’t Imbibe the Kool-Aid with Kim Kennedy – Brian Kamenker of MassResistance argues that Gay Straight Alliance clubs have become a powerful channel for promoting LGBT activism in schools. His warning deserves attention: withdrawing your own children from public school does not remove your responsibility to the community. Those classrooms are educating future teachers, doctors, and...
Are we funding education or financing failure?
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Despite spending more money on education than ever before, U.S. reading scores hit their lowest level on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) testing. Clearly, what we’re doing is not working. More money isn’t the answer. More education in technology isn’t the answer. More immersion in behavior curriculum isn’t the...
McMahon urges schools to teach the truth about socialism
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – At a time when young Americans are expressing positive impressions of socialism in record numbers, it is more important than ever for students to learn and understand the devastating human consequences of communist and socialist regimes. Linda McMahon urged classroom instruction on the destructive ideology of Communism...
As America rethinks education, Britfield opens another door
Unleashed: The Political News Hour with Susan Price – Calls for political renewal and education reform highlight concerns about government accountability and classroom ideology. Author Chad Robert Stewart offers a hopeful vision through his Britfield novels, promoting creativity, critical thinking, faith, and cultural exploration while inspiring children to discover history and embrace lifelong learning...
Teacher quality vs teachers’ unions
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Teacher shortages expose flaws in salary structures that reward seniority and advanced degrees over effectiveness. A new report urges schools to prioritize merit pay and higher salaries for hard-to-fill positions, while teachers’ unions oppose reforms aimed at improving student outcomes and retaining effective classroom educators...
When children become guinea pigs for adult agendas
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – The writer behind the 1619 Project has admitted to sending her daughter to two of New York City’s worst schools, not because she had no choice, but as a sacrifice to change the system. Meanwhile, the experiment in “transitioning” children has another nail in its coffin. Do No Harm published a study showing that the study by the...
The Gabriel Plan: From addiction to self-sufficiency
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Ginny Burton draws on her journey through addiction and incarceration to teach accountability and lasting recovery. Her Gabriel Plan challenges treatment systems to prioritize independence, practical skills, and measurable results. She calls for stronger oversight, family reunification, and guidance from people who understand how to build stable, healthier, self-sufficient lives...
How truth is making its way back into education
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Trump’s Department of Education formally removes Biden’s expanded Title IX regulations, restoring the 2020 rule governing sex discrimination in federally funded schools. The change follows court rulings and emphasizes protections for women and girls, including privacy, safety, and athletic opportunities, while clarifying legal responsibilities for...
When school ideology puts children’s education at risk
After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – Children’s learning takes center stage as Maud Maron challenges ideological pressure in New York City schools. Debates over selective admissions, school integration, and parental choice reveal the personal stakes of education policy. Families need honest information, rigorous standards, and real options that prioritize students’ reading, math, growth, and future ambitions...
The application for the Oklahoma Jewish charter school is allowed to proceed
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A federal judge rules that Oklahoma cannot reject a Jewish charter school’s application solely because of its religious character. The preliminary injunction allows Ben Gamla’s application to proceed without approving the school, reinforcing First Amendment religious freedom protections and challenging religious exclusions in the state’s publicly funded charter school program...
Fear, diagnosis, and the erosion of human agency
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Theodore Dalrymple examines how fear of illness, expanding diagnoses, and institutional incentives reshape the way people understand themselves. He questions weak medical claims and psychological labels that turn ordinary struggles into disorders, arguing that sound judgment and personal responsibility remain essential to healthy human agency...
