Posted on January 2nd, 2008 by Anthony K. Valley
To fight the advancing rate of sexually transmitted disease and teenage pregnacy, Scotland’s most senior public health doctor proposes starting sex education with five year olds.
SEX education lessons should be given to schoolchildren as young as five as part of a bid to combat soaring levels of teenage pregnancy and sexual disease, Scotland’s most senior [...]
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Posted on December 8th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
The classic Christmas carol “Silent Night” was altered by the Ridgeway Elementary School in Dodgeville, Wisconsin as an expression of diversity and holiday inclusiveness in the “winter program.” A concerned student’s parent has retained legal representation to have the winter program changed.
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Posted on November 29th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
New CPR guidelines double the number of chest compressions from 15 to 30 for every two rescue breaths.
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tags: american heart association, cnn.com, cpr, cable news network, health, aha
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Posted on November 28th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Hoping to instill a sense of normalcy in the aftermath of the Katrina tragedy, Ben Franklin Elementary School earns the distinction of being the first public school to reopen.
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tags: cnn.com, cable news network, hurricane katrina, new orleans, education, schools, nola
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Posted on November 28th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Sparking a First Amendment debate, a high school newpaper was seized by administrators only to be released when some revisions are made to objectionable content about birth control and tattoo.
How “free” is free speech?
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tags: cnn.com, cable news network, birth control, free press, free speech, newspaper, tattoo, oak [...]
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Posted on November 25th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Parents in Fayetteville, Arkansas, take legal action against the school district and offensive books in the library.
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tags: afa, agapepress, agapepress.org, books, fayetteville, school, pornography
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Posted on November 23rd, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
A Florida reading teacher charged with having sex with a minor pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior as part of a plea deal that does not include any jail time.
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tags: debra lafave, fox news, foxnews.com, greco middle school, crime, law, sex [...]
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Posted on November 15th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Nov. 15 – A conservative legal group plans to fight a California appeals court ruling that says parents had no power to prevent an elementary school from conducting a sex survey of their children.
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tags: beliefnet, beliefnet.com, christian, education, elementary, faith, family, school, sex, survey
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Filed under: Perspectives, Ethics, Education
Posted on November 12th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Studies and observations support this fact: college students are more religious than the previous generation.
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tags: christian, star tribune, startribune.com, believe, bible, college, faith, school, religion
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Posted on October 26th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
(CBS) By random mutation — or by design?
Those two different explanations for the diversity of life are in conflict in a court case now under way in Pennsylvania.
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tags: bible, cbs news, cbsnews.com, christian, creationism, darwin, faith, intelligent design, id
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Filed under: Society and Culture, History, Education
Posted on October 25th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Luc Jacquet, the director of the suprising successful documentary, “March of the Penguins”, notes that Christians have misrepresented his film by linking it to Intelligent Design. Jacquet, scientist and firm believer in the theory of evolution, states his film should not be used in support of evolution or intelligent design.
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Posted on October 20th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Homosexual activists are expected to show up today at the trial of a Massachusetts man arrested while attempting to secure a promise from school officials to notify parents before teaching about homosexuality in his son’s kindergarten class.
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Posted on October 19th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Religion, it seems, pays. But why?
Identifying communities of frequent churchgoers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Jonathan Gruber found higher incomes and education levels and less welfare participation, along with more marriages and fewer divorces than in the general population.
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Posted on October 18th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 17—Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution came under sustained attack in federal court here Monday as biochemistry professor Michael J. Behe argued that the theory fails to account for the complex biological machinery that scientists find in the corners of the human cell.
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Posted on October 17th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
Stephen Kobasa has taught English in parochial schools for 25 years, always with a deep religious conviction and without an American flag in his classroom.
It was never an issue until this school year began.
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tags: the hartford courant, american flag, christian, church and state, courant.com, education, faith, stephen [...]
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Filed under: Ethics, Education, Church and State
Posted on October 15th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
(AgapePress) – A California high school says it will no longer prohibit a student from using religious music to accompany her dance performance audition for a January dance team concert. Officials with West High School in Torrance initially told student Lauren Stoudt she could not choreograph her dance to the song “In Your Presence” because [...]
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Posted on October 13th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
In a turning of tables, two defenders of evolution in academia are being sued for spending more than $500,000 of federal money on a website that encourages teachers to use religion to promote Darwin’s theory.
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tags: darwin, evolution, id, worldnetdaily, worldnetdaily.com, religion, intelligent design
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Filed under: Education, Church and State
Posted on October 7th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
References to creationism in drafts of a student biology book were replaced with the term “intelligent design” by the time it was published, a witness testified Wednesday in a landmark trial over a school board’s decision to include the concept in its curriculum.
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Posted on September 26th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
HARRISBURG, Pa.—“Intelligent design” is a religious theory that was inserted in a school district’s curriculum with no concern for whether it had scientific underpinnings, a lawyer told a federal judge Monday as a landmark trial got under way.
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Posted on September 26th, 2005 by Anthony K. Valley
ATLANTA Sep 26, 2005 — The governor’s request that Georgia public schools take two “snow days” and close to conserve fuel did not sit well with parents who had to scramble to find baby sitters and day care for their children.
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