Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Mar 08 2009 | Filed under: Webloggin News
I’m a nincompoop when it comes to learning languages. My pronunciation is flawless, but my inability to grasp foreign language grammar structures (despite being quite adept at my own), coupled with my lazy memory, mean that, despite have studied myriad languages, I’ve never mastered any.
Daniel Tammet is a linquistic horse of a different color. (And [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
