Archive for the 'Education Watch' Category
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 [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on May 06 2008 | Filed under: Education Watch
If you suspected that many professors at America’s top universities view their students at passive receptacles for the professor’s propagandizing, you thought rightly. When students at Dartmouth broke this unspoken compact, one that is antithetical to the traditional idea of a university as a place where students learn logical, analysis, and the ability to articulate [...]
Otto at The Otto Show on Apr 29 2008 | Filed under: Education Watch, Politicians at Work
A brief hunt on the Internet led me to discover that there are 41 federal departments/agencies…just under the letter “A”. There are 15 federal agencies that fall under the management of the president. One of them is the sham known as the U.S. Department of Education.
$720 billion (2005): Total estimated annual [...]
Terry Trippany on Apr 19 2008 | Filed under: Abortion Debate, Education Watch, Feature Article, Liberalism Watch, Media Watch
As many of you probably know by now the Yale Daily News was party to a sick and demented hoax by art student Aliza Shvarts who claimed that her senior project documented repeated self induced abortions over a nine month period.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a [...]
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Apr 01 2008 | Filed under: DREAM Act, Education Watch
Well, this is interesting on a number of levels.
Elite colleges have been undermining their own efforts to diversify by giving much more weight to high SAT scores than they did before, according to an analysis of College Board data presented this morning at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association.
Over the past two [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: Education Watch, England, Europe, Feature Article
This morning we read about the Minneapolis high school that turned away the Vets for Freedom bus. It turns out that this attitude, in its most extreme form, is epidemic in England:
Teachers today vowed to oppose military recruitment campaigns in schools that are based on Ministry of Defence “propaganda”.
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jan 16 2008 | Filed under: Education Watch, Europe, Feature Article, Socialism
The progressives of the Victorian era would be proud, but the old fashioned liberals are rolling in their graves:
Independent schools are to be made to open their doors to more children from poor homes under guidelines announced to stop them being run as “exclusive clubs”.
Schools failing to meet the regulations could [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Dec 17 2007 | Filed under: Activism, Anti-Religion, Education Watch
I blogged very briefly on Friday about the lawsuit against Dr. James Corbett, who, along with his school district, is being accused of using his AP history classroom to indoctrinate his students in anti-Christian attitudes. I’ve discovered two things since then. First, the LA Times article from which I quoted was disingenuous in [...]
