Education
Friday, June 05, 2009
By
Rob
on June 5, 2009 at 06:32 am
It’s cheap for the taxpayers. It gets results with the students. But it funds the students and not the teachers, so obviously it must go. Milwaukee is home to America’s…...
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
By
Rob
on May 5, 2009 at 01:41 pm
Powerful stuff: Mercedes Campbell is one of the 1,700 students in the Washington, D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, a school-voucher program authorized by Congress in 2004. The program gives students up…...
Friday, April 24, 2009
By
Rob
on April 24, 2009 at 06:20 am
Segregation was ended in America, and rightfully so, in the name of racial equality. In Alaska, they’ve brought segregation back...in the name of racial equality. Walk into this Bartlett High…...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
By
Rob
on April 8, 2009 at 06:30 am
Which no doubt makes the teacher unions happy, but leaves those of us concerned with seeing our kids get the best education they can a little cold. Secretary of Education…...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
By
Rob
on March 25, 2009 at 09:11 am
We, at times, take it as an article of faith that our schools are underfunded and our teachers are underpaid. The truth is that we’ve almost literally been throwing money…...
Monday, February 16, 2009
Bill Gates recently gave a talk about what his foundation is up to. Apparently he is dedicating most of his time and money towards alleviating suffering due to Malaria and…...
Thursday, February 05, 2009
By
Rob
on February 5, 2009 at 08:49 pm
Because gun ownership apparently isn’t a 2nd amendment right or anything. BEAVER DAM (WKOW) — Beaver Dam school officials placed a middle school teacher on administrative leave after discovering a…...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
By
Rob
on December 17, 2008 at 03:01 pm
Frankly, I think the grade-level reading rates among the schools he managed is an even more telling indictment of this pick (only 17% of kids being able to read at…...
By
Rob
on December 17, 2008 at 01:48 pm
Obama’s pick for Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, said in his acceptance speech that he’s “eager to apply some of the lessons we have learned here in Chicago to help…...
Saturday, December 13, 2008
By
Rob
on December 13, 2008 at 09:10 am
Because it lets parents provide a better education for their children without having to depend on school bureaucrats to do it.
(via Paul Ibrahim)...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
The International Herald Tribune is oh so concerned that tuition is rising so fast that it soon will be unaffordable to many. The rising cost of college - even before…...
Thursday, October 02, 2008
By
Rob
on October 2, 2008 at 08:59 am
Campaign in a subtle way, but campaign none-the-less. An e-mail distributed by a Virginia teachers union encouraged members to bring politics into the classroom by wearing blue in support of…...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
By
Rob
on September 23, 2008 at 07:38 am
Oh, and if you fail in Pittsburgh you don’t get an “F.” You get an “E.” Pittsburgh Public Schools officials say they want to give struggling children a chance, but…...
Monday, September 22, 2008
By
Rob
on September 22, 2008 at 08:05 pm
Indoctrination, not education. BOSTON (AP) - University of Massachusetts officials on Monday quashed efforts by an Amherst campus chaplain to offer two college credits to any student willing to campaign…...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
By
Rob
on September 2, 2008 at 03:13 pm
It’d be a good thing if they did. The strangle-hold the teachers’ unions have on the Democrat party, and education policy in general, isn’t good anything but the pocketbooks of…...
Friday, August 15, 2008
By
Rob
on August 15, 2008 at 03:19 pm
Out of all the legislation and rule-making that has gone on in the aftermath of the school shootings that have afflicted this nation this rather common sense policy is the…...
Saturday, July 26, 2008
By
Rob
on July 26, 2008 at 02:31 pm
In the big-government, socialist paradise of Sweden no less. STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Schools run by private enterprise? Free iPods and laptop computers to attract students? It may sound out of…...
By
Rob
on July 26, 2008 at 08:40 am
North Dakota Americans for Prosperity Director Dustin Gawrylow has some better suggestions (when compared to Governor John Hoeven’s plan for a new $40 million tuition entitlement) for addressing North Dakota’s…...
Saturday, July 19, 2008
By
Rob
on July 19, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Ray Fisman asks that question over at Slate. My answer is that the problem has less to do with hiring good teachers and more to do with difficulty (thanks to…...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
By
Rob
on July 16, 2008 at 10:13 am
Here’s an excerpt from a speech Obama delivered to the American Federation of Teachers (read: teacher’s union): And when our educators succeed, I won’t just talk about how great they…...
Monday, June 23, 2008
By
Rob
on June 23, 2008 at 01:02 pm
I’m not entirely convinced, but I’m certainly open to the idea of reforming school systems to include more schools with smaller enrollments. Traditional scholastic sports and other extra-curricular activities could…...
Monday, June 16, 2008
By
Rob
on June 16, 2008 at 11:02 am
Not in place of evolutionary theory but rather beside it. I’m rather disappointed to hear this from Jindal. My personal feelings about intelligent design is that it’s a bunch of…...
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
By
Rob
on June 4, 2008 at 09:18 pm
And just think: These bureaucrats are in charge of educating millions of children....
Sunday, May 25, 2008
By
Rob
on May 25, 2008 at 06:44 am
A rather pathetic status quo: ...let us escape from the bell jar of liberal thinking and wonder why it is that after a century and a half of “free” public…...
Monday, May 19, 2008
By
Rob
on May 19, 2008 at 08:38 pm
But this didn’t happen in Iraq, Iran or Afghanistan but rather in Minnesota. Troubling to say the least. I’m all for being tolerant of other cultures and religions, but Muslims…...
By
Rob
on May 19, 2008 at 01:41 pm
You know, that has dozens of teachers and administrators under arrest and/or under investigation? Well, it would have been a bigger story if it had involved Catholic Priests or Republicans…...
Monday, May 12, 2008
By
Rob
on May 12, 2008 at 06:44 am
From the North Dakota Policy Council: Despite having a much smaller population, the Bismarck School District has more enrolled students than Fargo. However, the Fargo School District spent over $16…...
Monday, May 05, 2008
By
Rob
on May 5, 2008 at 09:56 am
I got this in an email from a North Dakota reader attending Williston State College who is taking a final test in a composition class which requires an essay about…...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
By
Rob
on April 30, 2008 at 10:00 am
My good friend Brett Narloch at the North Dakota Policy Council is announcing the NDPC’s new transparency website for state schools. It’s called Sunshine On Schools. From the press release:…...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
By
Rob
on April 23, 2008 at 05:59 pm
Am I the only one thinking that a credit card company offering debit accounts for students to put their “excess financial aid” in for spending is an indication that we…...
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