Politico Forgets to Mention Democrats Caused Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Problem
In its update on the coming student loan interest rate hike deal in Congress, Politico dances its blame-the-GOP tap dance once again saying that the coming rate hike is all just “politics.” But somehow Politico forgets to note that this interest rate problem is of the Democrats’ own making in the first place. Reporting that [...]
Principal Won’t Let Kids Sing Patriotic Song, But Steamy Bieber Hit A-OK
Welcome to PS 90, Coney Island, New York, where grade school Principal Greta Hawkins says the patriotic and popular song Proud to be an America by Lee Greenwood is verboten, but the teen sex song Baby by Justin Bieber is perfectly alright for Kindergartners to sing at their graduation celebration. Kindergarteners at PS90 have spent [...]
Traitors: American Professors Go to Tehran to Help Mad Mullahs
A couple of so-called American professors recently went to Tehran University to help the radical, anti-American, racist, Islamists propagandize about how wonderful the Mad Mullahs think the Occupy Wall Street “movement” here in America is. Wonderful, no? Anti-Americans Alex Vitae, professor at Brooklyn College, Heather Gautney, professor at Fordham University, John Hammond, professor at City [...]
Wealthy Michigan Teacher Upset She Can’t Retire at 47
It’s just unfair, isn’t it? I mean, if an $80,000-per-year, union protected, unfireable, teacher can’t retire at the extremely young age of 47 while the rest of us have to work into our 70s, well, what kind of world are we living in? That’s how teachers in Michigan feel, anyway. Just ask the haughty Terri [...]
Wisconsin School Punishes Christian Kid for Being a… Christian Kid
Superintendent Todd Carlson of Shawano High School in Shawano, Wisconsin is sorry a student observed his First Amendment rights and had his article published in the school newspaper that denounces homosexuals adopting children. And so Superintendent Carlson is making amends by punishing this Christian kid for being so darn Christian. Superintendent Carlson has also decided [...]
Restoring American Exceptionalism – Chicago Townhall
I just got back from a wonderful evening taking school choice at the Restoring American Exceptionalism, Chicago Townhall. In attendance were radio talk show host Michael Medved, Fox News contributor Juan Williams, and Dr. Paul Worfel, Director of Education of Trinity International University. The discussion was moderated by John Tillman of the Illinois Policy Institute. [...]
Wisconsin, The Slave State
Follow this chain of logic carefully: If you want to be a public school teacher in Wisconsin, you must join the union and financially support it through dues the school collects from you automatically. If you are a member of the union, you are also expected to support it wholeheartedly and without reservation [...]
Good Riddance
Years ago, I heard an aphorism that really struck home for me, and I’ve applied a few times in my life: If a friend owes you a hundred dollars and you never hear from him again, it was probably worth it. I am reminded of that because yesterday a long-time member of the [...]
The Question That Answers Itself
As I heard about the tale of the lawsuit against Catholic University of America that my colleague Rick wrote about, I found myself asking a very fundamental (pardon the word) question: If my religious faith was so strong that the mere presence of symbols of another faith profoundly offend me, why would I go [...]
What Education Funding Crisis?
Via Glenn Reynolds, we have this article about how colleges are dealing with funding issues: cutting faculty, consolidating academic departments, and constantly expanding their bureaucracy, especially those dealing with the PC magic buzzwords like “diversity” and “inclusion.” To this layman, it’s fairly simple: this tells me that the colleges don’t have a money problem, [...]
Some Modest Proposals For Higher Education Reform
As the subject of higher education funding comes up (mainly prompted by the Occupy Wall Street gits), I find myself thinking of ways to improve the situation. And I have a few notions I’d like to kick around — mainly aimed at keeping the young and foolish from saddling themselves with decades of debt. Most [...]
The Next Bubble: Higher Education
As previously discussed on Wizbang, and much more frequently mentioned on Glenn Reynolds “Instapundit” site, the next bubble is clearly visible on the horizon: Higher Education. Here is a handy and well documented infographic showing the scope, scale, and implications of the issue. From: The Best Colleges As Glenn often states, that which cannot continue, [...]
“Occupy Wall Street” should be occupying university business offices instead
If you are a follower Prof. Glenn Reynolds’ “Instapundit” blog, then you know that he regularly links to stories involving what he calls the Higher Education Bubble. Put simply, universities (and in particular, Ivy League schools, graduate studies programs at prominent universities, and major law schools) have increased tuition astronomically during the last twenty years, [...]
“The only beneficiaries are the teachers unions”
I had no idea Fran Tarkenton wrote Op-Eds, much less that he wrote them in the Wall Street Journal… but he does… and this one is right on: Over the past 20 years, we’ve been told that a big part of the problem is crumbling schools—that with new buildings and computers in every classroom, everything [...]
Harsh Truth
A rather interesting statistic came out last week, one that caught my eye. I watched to see if it would catch on, but no one seems to be talking about it. That’s not surprising; there are a lot of pitfalls around even discussing the ramifications. But I gave up respecting sacred cows a long, long [...]
“Let’s make poverty shameful again”
Found a post via Instapundit that I’m struggling with as I’m keenly aware that as a Christian and especially as a Catholic, the poor and the dispossessed demand my empathy. But I tell you, there’s a point being made here that simply screams for attention: During the Great Depression, my Grandpa Dave worked for the [...]
Jan Schakowsky On Our Understanding Of Social Security: “You Don’t Get It”
Social Security is bankrupt, right? There’s no lockbox, right? President Obama threatened that we won’t get those Social Security checks if something about the Debt Ceiling isn’t raised. Listen as Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) explains how Social Security works to us plebs. Well, not really explain it, more like explain how we’re just too stupid to [...]
“Sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests”
That conclusion drawn from a study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education: Titled, “Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of Existing Literature,” the report says the mistreatment of students ranges from sexual comments to rape. In fact, says the studies author, Carol Shakeshaft, professor of educational administration at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, New York, the scope of [...]
Georgia Leads The Way With The Nation’s Largest Education Scandal
Atlanta is the home to America’s largest cheating scandal
Yet more for the Academe and the MSM to answer for
Since the LSM are once again delinquent in their reportorial duties in that they are not covering this and are not asking the hard questions, it seems incumbent upon the dextrosphere to contact the worthies mentioned in McCain's blog posting to ensure they are indeed aware of the facts and enquire as to what they intend to do about their incestuous faculty member.
I might be a racist
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } …because I'm going to tell the truth about what is going on in America's schools. And I have Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern (R-Bethany) to…
"…by their fruits ye shall know them."
This insanity must end. What passes for "modern intellectualism" must be held to account.
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