Author: Susan Berry, PhD

Susan Berry, Ph.D., is the national education editor at The Star News Network. Email tips to [email protected].

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quickly authorized the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine shots for infants and young children Friday, paving the way for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory committee to vote on authorization over the weekend to allow the youngest children to get the shots as early as next week. Per the press announcement by the FDA, the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Moderna COVID vaccine for older children and adults has been โ€œamendedโ€ to โ€œinclude use of the vaccine in individuals 6 months through 17 years of age,โ€ while the EUA for the Pfizer COVID shot will…

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A study by the Heritage Foundation reveals a higher likelihood of youth suicide in states that allow minors to receive puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones without parental consent โ€“ an outcome that contradicts what the โ€œgender-affirmingโ€ crowd is fear-mongering to parents. Research has shown the vast majority of children who express signs of gender dysphoria experience a resolution of the problem without medical intervention, but Heritage Senior Research Fellow Jay Greene, PhD, notes in his study, released Tuesday, that data indicating adolescents with gender confusion suffer from a high rate of suicide have been โ€œinvokedโ€ by LGBTQ activist organizations, media, and even the White House, โ€œto assert that…

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[cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsmasters_text] U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said members of the House Democratsโ€™ select committee who claim to be investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol have already โ€œaltered evidenceโ€ of a text exchange between him and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. On Sunday Jordan referred to the primetime presentation hearing focused on the riot, which Democrats hired former ABC News President James Goldston to produce, as nothing but a partisan effort that has already been shown to include doctored โ€œevidence.โ€ โ€œThis committee has altered evidence and lied to the…

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An opinion author at MSNBC has condemned homeschooling as a racist tool of evangelical Christians seeking to undermine public schools and policies that promote integration. โ€œIt should come as no surprise that evangelicals, fundamentalists and other religious conservatives have fought against public education since the U.S. Supreme Courtโ€™s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education,โ€ Anthea Butler wrote at MSNBC in a column published Thursday. https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1525165239414710272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1525165239414710272%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffloridacapitalstar.com%2F2022%2F05%2F17%2Fmsnbc-homeschooling-a-racist-evangelical-war-to-undermine-integration-policies%2F Butler, a professor of religious studies and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania, is also the author of “White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America.” Like many Critical Race Theorists who claim racism is the root of just…

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