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Nancy Salvato has worked in the field of education since 1986, her experience spanning grades P-12 as a classroom teacher and as a clinical instructor at the postsecondary level. She is an experienced higher education administrator with demonstrated proficiency in accreditation and licensure, governmental relations, operations, curriculum and instruction, assessment, utilizing a student information system (SIS) and a learning management system (LMS). She received her undergraduate degree in History from Loyola University of Chicago and a master’s degree in Early Childhood Development from National Louis University. Post graduate study has focused the US Constitution, in particular, analyzing the historical, philosophical, and religious influences which culminated in this covenant amongst the citizens of this country and between those governed and those elected to office. An accomplished writer, Nancy contributes regularly to The World and I, a publication of the Washington Times, The New Media Journal, Family Security Matters, and a host of new media publications. Highlights of her career including being invited to the Department of Education to meet with then Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, being selected to participate in the National Academy for Civics and Government, and writing and publishing Keeping a Republic: An Argument for Sovereignty for and through her 501c3, BasicsProject.org. Click here to contact Nancy
Nancy Salvato's Commentary Archives
3rd String But Still On the Team * 9-11: We've Already Seen the Whites of their Eyes A Balance of Rights A Battle Cry for Freedom * A Brief History of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict ** A Conservative Teacher in a Blue State A Constitutionally Illiterate Congressional Leadership A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing A More Perfect Union Rests on a Balance of Ideas A Primary Caucus Primer A Superhero Without Special Powers A Think Tank’s Credibility Tanks A World Without Habeas Corpus Abortion: The Chicken Or The Egg Academic Freedom Actions Speak Louder Than Words Addressing the Propaganda Against School Choice All the Shouting is Taking Us Nowhere America's Passion: If Called To Duty America's Starvation of Morality An Abridgement of Constitutional Rights An Afro Centric Curriculum Will Segregate Students An Alternative to Impending Doom And "W” Takes the Series! Are Chicago Public School Teachers Property? Are Guns to Blame for Murder-Suicides in Switzerland? Are We Preaching to the Choir? Article II, Section 1: Just Words Back to School Blues Bad Money After Bad Bare Necessities: Hard to Attain for a College Graduate ** Battling the Education Hydra Beware of Greeks Chinese Bearing Gifts Billions Wasted on Teacher Attrition Blagojevich Re-Invents The Wheel Caving in the Face of Union Politics Celebrate Civic Pride Not French Obstructionism Censorship May Open Our Eyes to China Checks & Balances: Maintaining Our Liberties Circumnavigating the Rule of Law Civic Education Is Missing In The US Diet Competition as an Effective Education Reform Congress Shall Make No Law...Establishment of an Education System Contemplating the Gift of Freedom Counting the Votes Before They Are In Current Issues of Immigration in America ** Darling I Love You But Give Me Park Ave Decreasing the Readiness Gap Between Preschoolers * Defining Article 2, Section 1 in Context Defining Our Role in a Global Society Democratizing Education * Developing an American College of Education Differentiation Of Instruction Ding-Dong The Witch Is Dead Direct Election v.Electoral College Disenfranchised: The Buzz in Education Reform * Dispelling Myths about School Choice Doctor Shortage, the Next Pandemic **** Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone Down by the School Yard Dr. Caroline Hoxby and the Last Decade for Education Reform "E Pluribus Unum" Early Literacy Instruction Leaves No Child Behind East Is East And West Is West* Educating Beyond Their Imagination * Education Opens Our Eyes to Enlightenment Education Visionaries Must Prevail Educational Privateers Could Revolutionize Education Educational Reform Must Include Transparency and Competition Effective Reading Programs Share Common Characteristics Encroachments & Oppressions By The Representative Body English Fluency: The Foundation of Success English Language Learners Left Behind Enlightened Citizens: A Dying Breed Equitable Education is Possible Eternal Principle ‘Excuse Me...Can You Help Me Out with Some Change?’ Failures of Appeasement Follow the Money For the General Welfare, or An Encroachment on Rights? For the Long Haul Forcing Good Teachers to Fade to Black Free Market Closed to Education Freedom of Choice Spells Academic Achievement Further Left Than Multiculturalism? Genocide Has Become Benign Getting Beyond Polarization of Bilingual Methods Glossary to Educational Choice Halloween & Javier: Illegal Immigrants are Celebrated in Hollywood Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Radical Islam Harry Potter's Lesson in Mudslinging "Heads” Bin Laden Wins, (Turning) Tails, Bush Loses Healthy Bodies Equal Healthy Minds Houston, We Have a Problem How Secular Is "New Age" Education I’m a Writer, Not a Financial Planner If You Are Wise You’ll Listen to Me Ignorance Is Bliss, Or Is It? Ignorance Preserves Education’s Status Quo In Defense of Freedom In Just 100 Days In Moral Relativism Who's Responsible In The Aftermath of September 11th Some Of Us Are Still Moved In the Midst of a Second American Revolution ** Inclusion: A Broken Promise? Independent Schooling Soars Above the Public Excuse for Education Is a Bilingual Society a School Mandate?* Issues Needing Attention In Social Studies* It Is Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil It Stays in Vegas It Takes a 9th Circuit Court to Raise a Child Jeb & George Bush: True Education Reformers Judicial Activism Undermines The Integrity Of The Constitution Judicial Activism Undermines The Integrity Of The Constitution II Keith Ellison: Will His Oath Be to Shari’a or Constitutional Law? Kerry Fumbled, Bush Picked Up the Ball! Kerry's Game Remains the Same Laura Bush: Four More Years!* Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow... Let the Records Speak for Themselves Letting the Evidence Speak for Itself Liberalism is Jousting with Windmills	Lyon Takes a Bite Out of Education Mediocrity Making Sense of the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government Measuring Achievement Against Objectives Mental Health Trumps Individual Accountability Michelle Obama on the Man that Would Be President M-O-N-E-Y & Influence Money, Influence & Motive Moving On Up Natural Born Citizens NCLB vs. the NEA: The Line in the Sand NEA Pro-Dem But One Bush Photo Stirs the Partisan Pot Necessity is the Mother of Invention News Fast Next Year in Jerusalem "Not Bush" for President Not for the Medals Our Legal System Hides From Bullies Our Rites of Passage Pin the Note on the Student Please Stop the Aid Political Science 101: Power Breeds Corruption Precedence Takes Precedence President Bush Shoots Arrows At Marriage Prime Time Lie Prime Time Primaries Producing Good Citizens Trumps Ideological Short-Sightedness Promoting Alternative Energy for the Right Reasons "R" Stands for Reading Rat Race Radical Islam And Moral Relativism Make Strange Bedfellows* Raging Against the Anti-NCLB Propaganda Machine Renewed Civic Vision* Replacing Respect For The Teacher With Disrespecting The Student Responsibility Reaps Its Reward Riding the Train * Risking Our Nation’s Sovereignty School Reform Update Screening Mothers and Babes Instead of Potential Terrorists Separating the Wheat from the Chaff in Education Setting New Standards with Online Education Shackling the Individual by Imposing Racist Pride Shifting the Focus to Effective Instruction Should the Ends Justify the Means? Showing Students How Just Makes Sense Slow Down and Savor the Moments So, I Asked the Universe, "Universe, What I Really Want Is…" Someone Is Telling the Truth But No One Is Listening Stealing from the Middle Class to Give to the Poor Sticks and Stones Can Break My Bones Stossel Launches Potent Strike for Education Revolution Student Apathy Will Be Our Demise Student Vouchers Invite Government Involvement Sunrises & Sunsets Are Both Wondrous to Behold Teacher Burnout Takes On A Whole New Meaning Teaching Is an Art and a Science Teaching with Laptops* Technophobia Serves the Status Quo * Testimony To The Passion Of The Christ Terrorism Allows No Room for Negotiation The 180lbs. "Guerilla”: China’s Military Aspirations The 2000 Presidential Election Revisited: The Federalist The Advantage of Good Press The Ant and the Tsunami Victims The Arrogance of the Not-My-Fault Generation The Basics in Education Shouldn't Be Agenda Driven The Bill Of Rights: Its Intent & Application The Black Hole of Public Education The Building Blocks for Academic Success * The Confluence of Religion & Freedom The Constitution, Two Candidates & An Election The Desensitization Of Character The Federal Role in Education The Hidden Costs of Voting Early The Issue of Dual Citizenship in the US The Legacy of Rod Paige The NEA Cries Wolf Again The NEA Strikes Again! The NEA: What Is Their True Mission? The Oath of a Citizen The Original Intent Behind Good Government The Public School Lottery The Reading Wars Continue The Right to Defend Sovereignty The Shell Game of Publicly Funded Education The Shot Heard Round the World The Siren Song of Judicial Activism The Solvency of Education The Trojan Horse of Political Correctness* The Truth About High Academic Expectations The Truth Will Set You Free** The Turkey That Is Obamanomics The U.S. Supreme Court in History and Today** There Should Be Taxes on the GOP Platform There's No Good Reason They Can't...Learn There’s No Need for the NEA in Stepford Three Good Reasons to Become a Teacher: June, July & August * Too Many Cooks Running Our Schools Treason and Slander in the Fifth Column* Treating the Health Care Dilemma True Patriots Put Country First Tsunami Victims Benefit Most from US Citizenry Two Americas or One Nation with Liberty & Justice for All Undermining Our Sovereignty from Without & Within Undermining the Covenant Between Mother and Child Utopia or Dystopian Nightmare? Voting Conscience, Not Color Vouchers: I Get It Now Wal-Mart: Always Low Prices without Union Vices**** We the People What Does the Progressive Left Stand For? What if Education Worked Outside the Box * What If the Right to Life, Liberty & Happiness Was Relative? What Is Globalization, Really? * Where is the "Telephone Clause” in the Constitution? While The Cat's Away, The Terrorists Will Play Who is Accusing Whom of Having an Agenda? Whose Body Is It Anyway? Why Kids Can’t Read: Challenging the Status Quo in Education Why Should We Tolerate Guest Workers? * Will Political Correctness Indoctrinate Our Youth? Without Parental Accountability NCLB Is Doomed To Failure You Can't Have It Both Ways Your Most Obedient Humble Servant, GW
- Published in The Washington Times * - Featured in the book Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture * - Published in the Arizona Capitol Times ** - Published in The World & I Magazine

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