by Bob Allen | Apr 7, 2006 | News
With a growing movement in the Southern Baptist Convention encouraging parents to homeschool their children or put them in Christian schools, the time has come for Baptists who are friends of public education to also be heard, a Baptist ethicist told teachers Thursday...
by Robert Parham | Mar 31, 2006 | Opinion
As slavery was at the heart of the founding of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1845, racism was at the heart of the beginnings of the anti-public school movement and the founding of the Christian academies in the 1960s. Denial of either engages in historical...
by Bob Allen | Mar 31, 2006 | News
Seeking to counter stereotypes that homeschooling is driven by white parents motivated by racial prejudice, advocates say the movement is gaining appeal among all ethnic groups. Articles have claimed that African-Americans are one of the fastest-growing segments of...
by Bob Allen | Mar 29, 2006 | News
Georgia’s Legislature on Monday passed a law allowing state funding for Bible classes in public schools. The bill, passed by the Senate 45-2 after also receiving strong bipartisan support in the House, now goes to Gov. Sonny Perdue for signature. It would make...
by Bruce Prescott | Mar 28, 2006 | Opinion
Thomas Jefferson was convinced that democracy depended on a well-educated citizenry and he was right. Our nation’s founders rejected the rule of divinely ordained aristocratic elites. We were to be governed by the common consent of the people. That meant every...
