Throughout our nation, public education today is failing our children at every level, from kindergarten to college. Test scores are lower than that of many other industrialized countries. Violence erupts at a moments notice. Drugs are pervasive. Children can't read or write when they graduate. Students are not motivated to learn. They are not accountable for their actions. What went wrong? Our education system used to be the best in the world!

The problem stems from 30+ years of liberal, iron-fisted rule over our education system. During that time, many tried and true foundational principles and teaching techniques used for over 200 years that made this country great have been erased. Our educational system has been led down an unproven and harmful path of liberal indoctrination from which it will take at least a generation to recover. There are many problems this politically-correct agenda has caused, including feel-good classes where children learn little or nothing; lowered standards of excellence; social promotions of students from grade to grade even when they don't pass and can't read or write; lack of student discipline; little or no respect for teachers; situational morality; no standard of right and wrong; condoms given to children in schools; unmotivated students; etc.

The list of failed practices and resulting consequences goes on and on. This has been one big experiment for the last 30 years, and the education establishment and the NEA has reaped what it has sown.

Children are the prize to the winners of the cultural war. Those who control what young people are taught and what they experience will determine the future course for this nation. The last few decades have clearly shown how the predominant value system of an entire culture can be overhauled by those with unlimited access to children.

Abraham Lincoln said, "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next." We see that today, and it will only get worse until our education system is wrested from the liberal establishment so that we can get it back on the right track for our children. The purpose of education is to prepare our children to succeed in life, and we are failing miserably. Their future, and ultimately our country's future, depends on how well and how quickly we remove our failing school system from the incompetence of liberals who have taken a generation captive.

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Guide to Free Speech on Campus
Focuses on the threat to freedom of expression posed by the imposition of speech codes, under various misleading names, on campuses across the nation.
Guide to Due Process and Fair Procedure on Campus
Provides information about the appropriate and inappropriate methods by which university administrators and student judicial panels address issues of academic misdeeds and behavioral misconduct.
Guide to Student Fees, Funding, and Legal Equality on Campus
Provides a thorough explanation of the significance of student activity fees and their relationship with free expression and campus equality.
Guide to Religious Liberty on Campus
Provides a thorough explanation of the significance of student activity fees and their relationship with free expression and campus equality.
Guide to First-Year Orientation and Thought Reform on Campus
Contrasts the legitimate purposes and intentions of campus orientation sessions with current practices and effects, revealing how these sessions have evolved in frightening fashion in the hands of college administrators.
Spotlight on Campus Speech Codes - Public Universities Overwhelmingly Violate First Amendment
This report shows how 364 colleges and universities systematically violate students' and faculty members' right to freedom of expression. Approximately 74 percent of schools surveyed maintain policies that clearly restrict speech that, outside the borders of campus, is protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The organizations below provide excellent information about current issues and how to get involved to help our children:

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America's colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience—the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. FIRE's core mission is to protect the unprotected and to educate the public and communities of concerned Americans about the threats to these rights on our campuses and about the means to preserve them.

FIRE effectively and decisively defends American liberties on behalf of thousands of students and faculty on our nation’s campuses. In case after case, FIRE brings about favorable resolutions for these individuals who continue to be challenged by those willing to deny fundamental rights and liberties within our institutions of higher education. In addition to individual case work, FIRE works nationally to inform the public about the fate of liberty on our campuses.

FIRE is working to protect individual rights through two Programs: the Individual Rights Defense Program and the Individual Rights Education Program. Ultimately, FIRE seeks to end the debilitating fatalism that paralyzes students and faculty by bringing public attention to the issue while providing protection to those who are now helpless in the face of abuses of power on campuses across the nation.

FIRE Spotlight - Campus Freedom Resource
Offers comprehensive information on the state of liberty on America’s campuses. Use FIRE’s Spotlight to find information about specific academic institutions, which contain relevant links to the research of speech codes, case materials from FIRE’s Individual Rights Defense Program, media coverage of FIRE’s work, and entries from FIRE’s blog, The Torch.

Campus Freedom Network
The Campus Freedom Network (CFN) is an essential component of the fight to protect individual rights at institutions of higher learning across the country. The CFN provides resources and educational opportunities to students and faculty engaged in advancing individual rights on campus. The goal is to encourage energetic students and faculty members to pressure their administrations to change illiberal and unconstitutional policies. To facilitate this activity, the CFN arranges speeches by FIRE speakers, rewards active students through an incentive program, organizes an annual FIRE summer conference, and bolsters FIRE’s programs with grassroots support. By organizing students and faculty, the CFN strives to change the culture of censorship on college campuses from the inside.

Young America's Foundation
Young America’s Foundation is committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of  young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values. As the principal outreach organization of the Conservative Movement, the Foundation introduces thousands of American youth to these principles.  We accomplish our mission by providing essential conferences, seminars, educational materials, internships and speakers to young people across the country.

Accuracy in Academia
Campus reports, current events, politically correct top 10 colleges and more. A nonprofit public service that seeks the reassertion of traditional academic ethics in our universities. Academic freedom is threatened by a progressive ideological orthodoxy, pervasive in the "intellectual" community, which degrades professional standards in teaching and scholarship, and inhibits speech and research which contradict orthodox views.

Campus Watch
Campus Watch is a project of the Middle East Forum, reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them. The project mainly addresses five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students. Campus Watch fully respects the freedom of speech of those it debates while insisting on its own freedom to comment on their words and deeds.

Citizens for Excellence in Education
Monthly and quarterly newsletters, resources, special features, breaking news and more. The organization helps parents and public school teachers to restore academic excellence and traditional moral values to the public schools. CEE also helps parents rescue their children from public schools to private Christian schools and home schools, and to rescue their children within the public schools.

The Heartland Institute
The Heartland Institute is a national nonprofit research and education organization. Its mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Such solutions include parental choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in health care, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies. The website discusses topics such as the basis for public education, the need for reform, how to reform, competition in K-12 education, and school choice.

Family Research Council
The education section highlights public policies that pertain to education, sex education, home-schooling, parental choice in education and religious freedom in public schools. Also find out the strategies used by homosexual activists in schools and how to protect your children from pro-homosexuality propaganda. The organization believes that America must restore decision-making authority over school policy and finance to parents, locally elected school boards and taxpayers, relieving them of the layers of bureaucracy that hinder education renewal.

Eagle Forum
School board candidate questionnaire and articles about current issues. Also features a college section. They want to know if you have a college "horror" story? Problems with a liberal, feminist, or socialist professors? Crazy PC classes offered? Assignments and projects teaching liberalism rather than true academics? Conservative professors mistreated? Do RAs go through "diversity" training? Are affirmative action policies used in admissions or financial aid awards? Also offer general education news for parents and concerned citizens. Stands for the fundamental right of parents to guide the education of their own children. Parents should have the right to choose private schools or home schooling without oppressive government regulation.

American Family Association
AFA is for people who are tired of cursing the darkness and who are ready to light a candle. AFA helps people become informed and involved and stands for traditional family values, focusing on the influence of television and other media - including pornography - in our schools and on our society.

American Center for Law and Justice
Includes information on student’s rights in public schools, Bible clubs, graduation prayer, pornography in the public school libraries and religious holidays. Also available are news releases, current court cases and more. A non-profit public interest law firm and educational organization dedicated to the promotion of pro-liberty, pro-life and pro-family causes.

Center for Education Reform
This site includes a monthly letter, news alerts, articles, publications, analysis, current events and reform issues (charter schools, school choice, academic standards and curriculum, etc.). CER serves as a clearinghouse for information on innovative reforms in education and works in states and communities across the country to advance the cause of educational excellence by: providing guidance to communities striving to effect change in their local schools, promoting reforms to improve educational accountability, assessment and access, promoting academic standards as the cornerstone of effective education, working to lessen regulations and to restore local control over education, and encouraging greater educational opportunities and choices for teachers and parents.

National Center for Policy Analysis
Information about affirmative action, choice in education, teachers unions, curriculum and standards, performance and accountability, school management and control, educational issues, spending and school finance - and how they affect students.

No Indoctrination
Universities in a free society should be places where open minds can flourish and examine ideas from a variety of reasoned perspectives. In recent years, however, sociopolitical agendas often drive the discourse - supplanting, suppressing, and ultimately excluding alternative views. NoIndoctrination.org provides a forum for college students to report courses and programs that in their opinion contain severe bias or amount to indoctrination. If you believe you have experienced courses or orientation programs that advance one-sided social or political ideologies, denigrate alternative views, or create an intimidating atmosphere for expressing diverse opinions, please post your experiences here (and, if possible, send corroborating material). The information we gather will help us in our mission to promote open inquiry in academia.

Students for Academic Freedom
The Students for Academic Freedom Information Center is a clearing house and communications center for a national coalition of student organizations whose goal is to end the political abuse of the university and to restore integrity to the academic mission as a disinterested pursuit of knowledge.