Archive for the 'Education Watch' Category

Competition: Making Your Kids smarter, One Subject at a Time

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 [...]

Obama on School Choice: Ok for Me, Not for You

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 [...]

Government To Decide Your Child’s Mental Health Status

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 [...]

Unsafe At Any Grade

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 [...]

Three Big Problems With Public Education

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 [...]

Were Yale Professors Willing Dupes in Hoax About ‘Abortion Art’?

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 [...]

Out of the Diversity Market?

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 [...]

Crazy Teachers At Home And Abroad

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) [...]

The Voracious British Government Marches On

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 [...]

Dr. James Corbett Accused of Insulting Religion in His Class

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 [...]