Education
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…...
By
Rob
on April 23, 2008 at 09:10 am
The editorial board at the New York Times is clearly tired of the Democrat primary race and all the in-fighting it is creating. Clearly, they’re anxious to get back to…...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
By
Rob
on April 16, 2008 at 02:47 pm
Because laying the flag down on the ground for people to walk on is art: Maybe it is art. I’m certainly not any sort of expert on the subject, but…...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
By
Rob
on April 15, 2008 at 10:37 am
Because, you see, the Dalai Lama is a religious leader as well as a political leader. And we all know how liberals feel about the separation of church and state,…...
Sunday, April 06, 2008
By
Rob
on April 6, 2008 at 09:14 am
Again. Which, again, begs the question: Who is ultimately responsible for raising our children? Parents, or the state? The line is getting blurrier all the time. A court in California…...
By
Rob
on April 6, 2008 at 08:22 am
The day before yesterday I wrote a post about “dropout factory” schools in urban areas, and noted in the post that funding isn’t exactly the problem in a lot of…...
Friday, April 04, 2008
By
Rob
on April 4, 2008 at 08:33 am
Denver Post columnist (and Say Anything reader/podcast guest) David Harsanyi has an interesting column about dropout rates in America and what’s causing them. He notes that in areas where dropout…...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
By
Rob
on April 2, 2008 at 01:35 pm
That’s right. Ibuprofen. As in over-the-counter headache medicine like Advil and Tylenol, though in this case the ibuprofen just happened to be prescription strength. Meaning each pill is equivalent to…...
Friday, March 14, 2008
By
Rob
on March 14, 2008 at 09:57 am
There are parents who let their kids get away with this kind of nonsense too. ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
By
Rob
on March 11, 2008 at 03:24 pm
That’s the question being asked by one advocacy group which is sponsoring a contest to find the worst unionized teacher in America so that he or she can be offered…...
Monday, March 10, 2008
By
Rob
on March 10, 2008 at 09:03 am
Given this sort of reading material, the kids might as well sit around with Penthouse Forum: (CNSNews.com) - Parents in Deerfield, Ill., are upset that a local high school is…...
Friday, March 07, 2008
By
Rob
on March 7, 2008 at 10:36 am
And I, personally, am blaming the public schools as well as the teachers unions and politicians who have valued teacher contracts over student well-being, and indoctrination over education. A recent…...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
By
Rob
on March 5, 2008 at 01:16 pm
This is to allow Muslim women time to work out so they don’t have to do so in front of men. Six times a week, Harvard kicks all the guys…...
Saturday, March 01, 2008
By
Rob
on March 1, 2008 at 01:41 pm
I’ve always felt that one of that education was one of the few legitimate roles of government. The problem I’ve always had with government education, however, is that the government…...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
By
Rob
on February 19, 2008 at 08:14 am
An indentured servant is someone who works without pay in exchange for a special favor. During colonial times many indentured servants gave over their services in exchange for passage to…...
By
Rob
on February 19, 2008 at 07:26 am
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
By
Rob
on February 12, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I recently got a review copy of Indoctrinate U, a documentary about liberal bias on America’s universities, and while I promised not to post a full review until the filmmakers…...
Saturday, February 02, 2008
By
Rob
on February 2, 2008 at 04:52 am
Sigh... A seven-year-old boy has been cited for assaulting teachers. Mandan police say the boy punched two teachers and spit at them. He’s a student at Fort Lincoln Elementary. Police…...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
By
Rob
on January 22, 2008 at 10:20 pm
The Young America’s Foundation has put out this press release: Debating January 15, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama all went on record saying they will vigorously enforce the…...
Thursday, January 17, 2008
By
Rob
on January 17, 2008 at 08:38 pm
And then give each ethnic group its own counselor who is also of that ethnic group. Great idea, right? Nothing says “diversity” like breaking people up into groups based on…...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
By
Rob
on January 16, 2008 at 01:40 pm
First it was veterans, now it’s parents who opt-out of the public school system who are a threat. The NYT’s had an article out yesterday entitled “Lack of Supervision Noted…...
Thursday, January 10, 2008
By
Rob
on January 10, 2008 at 02:16 pm
School administrators in Eden Prairie, MN recently decided to punish a group of students who appeared to be drinking alcohol in pictures posted on Facebook. In the pictures, several students…...
Friday, December 28, 2007
By
Rob
on December 28, 2007 at 04:10 pm
Some attorney named Jennifer Brandt was on Fox News today defending the feminization of American boys. Now, personally, I don’t usually get all that upset about stuff like this. I…...
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
By
Rob
on December 25, 2007 at 07:24 am
Apparently a loophole in North Dakota’s law may be allowing foster kids being kept at juvenile rehabilitation centers to be housed with sex offenders. What’s more, it is not the…...
Saturday, December 01, 2007
By
Rob
on December 1, 2007 at 05:07 pm
Because we all know the best way to teach kids to resist the urge of poor food choices is to ban the ban food they’d choose. See, if the federal…...
Friday, November 16, 2007
By
Rob
on November 16, 2007 at 09:37 am
Because the Indians never attacked and killed the Pilgrims or anything. Seattle school officials are telling teachers that Thanksgiving actually is a time of “mourning” since it represents “500 years…...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
By
Rob
on November 14, 2007 at 09:48 am
Sure, why not. Countries like India are cranking out scientists, engineers and mathematicians but here in America we’ve got our kids taking courses in the Sociology of Sexuality. Which will,…...
Thursday, November 08, 2007
By
Rob
on November 8, 2007 at 07:43 pm
The other day I picked my daughter up and, while driving home, was talking to her about what she’d been doing in school (she’s in the 1st grade). She told…...
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