Bookworm at Bookworm Room on May 07 2009 | Filed under: Education Watch, Unions
Unlike 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 bad teacher). Because of his [...]
Debbie Hamilton at Right Truth on Jan 07 2009 | Filed under: Education Watch
It’s a growing trend in the 21st century. More students are being sent home from school. But it’s the school being punished, so to speak, by the parents, as they opt to take charge of their children’s education themselves.
Attorneys for the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) are available for interviews to discuss this intriguing [...]
Joshua Pundit on Dec 19 2008 | Filed under: Education Watch
Barack Obama named Arne Duncan as his pick for Secretary of Education today.Duncan’s headed the Chicago School District since 2001.
His record, of couse, speaks for itself :
Duncan, hailed by Obama as a reformer, said he would like to take the lessons he learned in Chicago with him when he moves to Washington. “I’m also eager [...]
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Dec 15 2008 | Filed under: Education Watch, Moonbat Mania
…which, like a fungus designed to dwell in a mucus lining, is where it has always wanted to thrive…
Scott from North Carolina is concerned with the radical views of his students:
Dr. Helen:
I’m a middle/high school teacher, of a social-libertarian, economic-conservative bent. All the talk about indoctrination of kids is extraordinarily true. I have kids pass [...]
Teri O'Brien on Nov 20 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Education Watch, Feature Article
It is clear the Left’s 30+ year effort to dumb down the population by turning our educational institutions into PC re-education camps has had its desired effect. Exhibit A is the election of Sen. Barack Hussein Obama (D-ACORN), propelled into office by millions of uninformed, emotion besotted dimwits and white guilt afflicted liberals. To see [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Oct 14 2008 | Filed under: Education Watch, Election 2008, Feature Article, Liberalism Watch, Media Watch
Steve Schippert’s focus has been on national security (he was one of the founders of ThreatsWatch.org), so for that reason alone he’s viewed the Obama candidacy and the Democratic ascendancy with dismay. He’s now concerned that even more may be at stake, as an Obama presidency threatens to undermine completely the core nature of the [...]
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Sep 21 2008 | Filed under: Education Watch, Humor
Liberalism and conservatism. Here’s the difference…right here, baby.
Let’s make the elections all about this. Because they’re all about this already.
H/T: Bookworm.
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RightGirl at Girl on the Right on Aug 27 2008 | Filed under: Education Watch
The market is working, and it’s bound to piss some people off.
Ontario’s Catholic schools do a better job than public schools in helping children overcome the demographic roadblocks to learning, says a provocative new study prepared for the C.D. Howe Institute.
Using a socially sensitive yardstick that measures how well schools do given the background of [...]
Terry Trippany on Aug 12 2008 | Filed under: Education Watch, Election 2008, Liberalism Watch, Politicians at Work
Barack Obama Sends His Kids to Expensive Private Schools While Denying Choice to Low Income Parents
From Investors Business Daily:
While Obama’s children enjoy the best education money can buy, he wants to deny inner-city children the education change we can believe in — school choice. He prefers cradle-to-diploma collectivist education.
When Barack Obama collected the endorsement of [...]
Debbie Hamilton at Right Truth on Jul 24 2008 | Filed under: Education Watch, Feature Article, Nanny State, Politicians at Work
You will soon have no rights over your own children: The government will be sending in specialists to evaluate your children medically, emotionally, physically, … for 5 medical conditions. “The federal definition of developmental screening for special education also includes what they call socioemotional screening, which is mental health screening,” Dr. Effrem said. “Mental [...]
