Tag Archive 'education'

Our Fading Heritage

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 [...]

Indoctrination Alert: Students Receive Text Praising Obama

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 [...]

Video: Liberals and Conservatives Debate Education, Parents and Choice

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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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 [...]

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 [...]