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by Tom Shuford
Columnist EdNews.org
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
The Fourth of July is fireworks, festivities and images of a gathering of remarkable men determined "to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them."

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by Tom Shuford
Columnist EdNews.org
"I began (reporting) in 1956 and never have I seen a more badly covered subject, and there is no question it is a political correctness issue. I find that offensive as a reporter." (two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Donald L. Barlett of Time Magazine on the reporting on illegal immigration)

by Tom Shuford Columnist EdNews.org
News of the latest plan to save American public education, "Tough Choices or Tough Times: The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce," recalled an email I received recently from a veteran teacher coping with the current plan, No Child Left Behind:

by Tom Shuford - " In Maryland and Virginia public schools, statewide exams are a cause for perpetual celebration, " the Washington Post reported a few weeks ago. " Scores go up almost every year in virtually every grade level and subject tested. "

by Tom Shuford - The illegality of Mexican immigration troubles many Americans. It does not much trouble President Bush. U. S. borders, immigration laws and the will of the American people notwithstanding, President Bush believes Mexican citizens who entered the U. S. illegally

by Tom Shuford - "We are a nation of immigrants." "We are a welcoming nation." "Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." "Immigrants do jobs Americans won't do."  With such platitudes President Bush and open borders advocates dismiss fears about rapid change due to uncontrolled immigation.

by Tom Shuford - In the late twentieth century, developments occurred that, if continued, could change America into a culturally bifurcated Anglo-Hispanic society with two national languages