In the process of writing a research paper on religious pluralism's affect on education I came across some interesting ideas.
food for thought
It must be said that the provision "Congress shall make no law respecting an establisment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" was intended to protect religion from the state, not the state from religion as is so often assumed.
In 1960 1% of children in school came from divorced parents in 1990 it was almost 50% (New York Times April 12th, A13). How much has it increased since 1990?
"Any problem schools cannot solve without computers, they can't solve with computers.""In parochial schools," a teacher said, "if we have a problem child, we threaten him with public school." Posted by jeremy stock at April 30, 2001 12:58 AM"Between the ages of three and eighteen, the average American youngster will see about 500,000 television commercials, which means that the television commercial is the single most substantial source of values to which young are exposed."
"It would be frightening to contemplate how few know the names of their representatives in Congress, or who is the secretary of state..." ~~~Neil Postman.