Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Had we in the conservative world not made an uproar, I have no doubt but that the Obama speech, and the supporting teaching materials, would have encouraged children to come to the cult of Obama. Thanks to the uproar, the speech shows that the cult of Obama is pretty much
Continue readingI am not at all pleased that Obama is going to descend upon an impressionable and captive audience on September 8. While I don’t expect him to do much more than mouth “lame” platitudes about education and service (meaning, of course, service to liberal causes not, God forbid, military service),
Continue readingMy children, despite having one liberal parent and one conservative one, have come down firmly and absolutely on the side of conservatism. They loath Obama. Thank God, too, because Obama is going to use the power of the federal government to speak directly to America’s children, bypassing their parents as
Continue readingThe Marin IJ reports that almost $3,000,000 in stimulus money Americans will help the public school district in Ross, California: Ross School has won the federal stimulus fund lottery. School officials learned Friday they would receive a $2.85 million school construction bond tax credit as part of the federal stimulus
Continue readingI know reader Lulu is familiar with the American education system, and she might have even better comments on this one than any I can offer. Nevertheless, I’ll stick take a stab at it. First, the story: Despite a seventh straight year of improved test scores statewide, results released today
Continue readingOne of my main bases for hostility to teacher’s unions is that increasingly have nothing to do with their original goal, which was ensuring a living wage and decent working conditions for teachers. (Not that they were always that effective at serving their original union mandate. My father was a
Continue readingI went to NBC’s site looking for something else entirely, and got waylaid by a link to Hollywood brainiacs. I found it somewhat interesting, at least initially. Before I begin, though, let me say that I’m absolutely certain a lot of the actors and actresses profiled are indeed really, really
Continue readingWhen the San Francisco School Board voted to do away with the district’s JROTC program, program supporters (unsurprisingly, perhaps because of the military elements of JROTC) fought back. And they won!
Continue readingUnlike many people, I was not shocked to learn that the LA Unified School District is paying teachers not to teach, although the $10 million price tag strikes me as just a tad unreasonable. In the early 1970s, one of my teachers was a scary guy (not to mention a
Continue readingMy son came home from public school the other day complaining that one of his teachers used a history lesson as an opportunity to launch into a short speech about how Obama was going to bring peace to the world. (Which is true, if you accept that, as Charles Krauthammar
Continue readingDespite the fact that it is a voluntary organization, that the costs to the school system are minimal, and that the kids who join it do well in school and are exemplary citizens, San Francisco’s hostility to the JROTC knows no bounds, and the school system has done its best
Continue readingI would love to see the recession cut America’s top universities, which have become intellectually polluted institutions that have nothing to do with education. Heather MacDonald — in a larger article about how Yale, even as it tightens its belt panders more deeply to the LGBT community — sums up
Continue readingThe article only interviewed Muslim parents, but it’s clear Christians were involved as well. These were the parents in England who pulled their young children out of school rather than have the children be subject to a month long GLBT indoctrination, er, education sessions — and who are now being
Continue readingWe often complain here about the futility of arguing with someone who gets information and opinion only from the liberal media. Thomas Sowell attacks the same problem from the perspective of a parent trying to get through to a child whose entire education has been spent in the liberal school
Continue readingI’m sorry, but when a law professor writes this kind of prima facie garbage, you have to wonder about an administration that keeps him on board. Without even delving into actual facts, let me just fisk the relevant parts of Bisharat’s article regarding Israel and war crimes to reveal logical
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