Why do public school children pledge their allegiance to “one nation under God” every morning despite America’s separation of church and state? In our nation’s schools, children say these words while ...

How can this be the land of the free when it takes the average American 384 hours of work to cover the cost of a typical hospital stay? The post My allegiance to the truth appeared first on Pittsburgh ...

I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands” are words necessitating a personal commitment to faithfully embrace the fundamental ...

The country could learn a lesson in civil discourse from what transpired at the South Bend City Council meeting on... Read ...

Back in 1892, James B. Upham was working for a magazine called "The Youth's Companion." He was in charge of a campaign to have schoolchildren participate in a flag ceremony to commemorate the 400th ...

Views expressed here represent those of the author and not necessarily of MassLive or The Republican. Readers are invited to share their opinions by emailing to [email protected]. On Sept. 4, 1979, in ...

As schools are letting out for the summer across Ohio, state lawmakers are looking ahead to the next academic year. Among the proposed changes to the laws governing the state’s public schools, one ...

Education Commissioner Anastasios "Stasi" Kamoutsas wants the 1,500 employees at the state Department of Education in Tallahassee to start their days just as Florida students do: With the Pledge of ...