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The public education system is meant to produce fine young adults prepared for life, but the fruit it’s producing doesn’t even approach those standards. The secularization of public schools leaves the most important part of life out — the spiritual side — and substitutes little for it.

This article discusses how our public “atheist schools” are missing the mark when it comes to preparing people for life.

NiSource, an energy company of Ohio, has announced that it will not hire home-schooled students, preferring public school graduates instead. But as Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis points out, public schools do not allow God, the Bible, prayer or creation because they claim they want to remain neutral.

“The Bible teaches very clearly you’re either for Christ or you’re against Him (Matthew 12:30). There’s no neutrality; there’s no in-between,” Ham cites. “By secular, that means it has nothing to do with God. In fact, in the biology textbooks we read that students are taught that the hull of reality, the universe [and] life are to be explained by natural processes, and the supernatural is not allowed in science.”

So the apologist encourages parents become aware of the effect secular teaching is having on their children’s spirituality.

“Two-thirds of young people are leaving the church by the time they reach college age,” he reports. “And if that continues, where is America going to be in the future? It’ll be where England is today, where two-thirds of teenagers don’t even believe in God.”

Finish this article here: http://www.onenewsnow.com/education/2014/07/14/what-will-us-be-like-if-only-god-less-education-is-okay#.U8f3-vlkSds

Godless education won’t produce godly people. Without godly people, our culture will continue to deteriorate and more people will suffer from the anti-Christian culture that non godly people produce.

While politicians continue to make new laws legalizing sin, godly people often sit back and just accept what they feel they can do nothing about. This does not have to be the case. The only way these things can happen is when the populace being affected is silent.

The godly response to such activity is to stand up and do something about it, not to sit back and complain. There are many ways to take a stand and there are many organizations doing so that need your help. If you are one of the passive onlookers, I encourage you to get involved and take a stand. Speak for Christ — that’s the only way we can promote Christ in culture.

Faith based schools can resurrect American education, claims William Jeynes, a Harvard graduate and Senior Fellow at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. In his new book, School Choice a Balanced Approach, Jeynes claims that the public school monopoly is stifling the potential of American students. Public education has been proven to be much less effective than the education provided by faith-based schools, and his conclusions reflect that fact. Here is a short review of his new book.

(Santa Barbara, CA)—A new book by a professor and researcher uses quantitative analysis to assert that the American education system can raise school quality and help students in the inner city far better than it currently does.

In his book entitled, School Choice a Balanced Approach, William Jeynes, a Harvard graduate and Senior Fellow at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, asserts the a higher percentage of K-12 schools are controlled by the federal government in the U.S. than even in Russia and China and the public school monopoly is stifling the potential of American students.

Jeynes, who has spoken and written for the White House and worked as a consultant with U.S. presidential administrations and in South Korea during the 1997-1998 Asian economic crisis, claims that such a monopoly is exacerbating the achievement gap, lowering achievement, and is having a dragging effect on the U.S. economy.

Dr. Jeynes presents the following evidence as a basis for future educational policy that can turn around American K-12 education.

1) Presents a meta-analysis indicating students at public charter schools do no better academically than their counterparts in traditional public schools. On this basis, Jeynes asserts that public school choice is not enough to save the nation from its educational woes. School choice needs to be expanded to also include faith-based schools and poor children in particular. Religious schools are very adept at reaching the underprivileged and the achievement gap is typically 25% narrower at these schools.

2) Calls for increased family and community links to reduce to reduce the achievement gap. Quantitative analysis indicates that non-school factors decrease the achievement gap 4 times more than school factors.

3) Calls for greater competition at the K-12 grade levels, in the same spirit that has made America’s university system the best in the world.

4) Calls for the “de-Balkinization” of education so that all children in school are valued, not merely those in a particular sector. Those who serve in public schools should care just as much about the success of children in private schools as they do for children in their own sector. Those working in private schools need to demonstrate the same compassion.

Dr. Jeynes asserts that if these actions are taken, American education can turn around.

Finish this article here: http://www.breakingchristiannews.com

Faith-based schools are superior to public schools because they are more concerned about the individual than the majority. You can read more about faith-based schools here: http://www.faithbasedschools.org/faq/

Another alternative to public education is homeschooling. You can learn more about homeschooling here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling

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