Are Democrats Coming Around On School Choice?
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…...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Texas School District To Let Teachers Bring Guns To School
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
Shocker: School Choice Is Working
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…...
Better Solutions For North Dakota’s Tuition Problem
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
Why Are Public Schools Bad At Hiring Good Teachers?
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
Obama Promises To Nationalize Education In America
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
Time For A Return To One-Room School Houses?
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
Bobby Jindal Supports Teaching Intelligent Design In Schools
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
Washington DC Teachers Don’t Know That The District of Columbia Isn’t A State
And just think: These bureaucrats are in charge of educating millions of children. ...
Sunday, May 25, 2008
America’s Inability To Pass English 101
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
Camera Crew Attacked After Attempting News Report On Muslim Madrassa
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…...
You Heard About That Massive Child Sex Scandal In The LA Public School District, Right?
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
Fun Facts About Education Spending In North Dakota
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
College Final Test: Write A Paper Supporting Universal Health Care Or Fail
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
Sunshine On North Dakota Schools
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
Excess Higher Education Aid?
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…...
New York Times To Hillary: Give Up And Let Us Crown Obama Already
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
University Of Maine Art Department Uses American Flags For Rugs
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
Washington Schools In Hot Water Over Sending Students To See Dalai Lama
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
California Trying To Ban Spanking
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…...
Failing Washington DC Schools Getting $25,000/Student In Funding
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
Inner City Schools Are “Drop Out Factories,” Teacher’s Unions Are To Blame
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
School Officials Strip Search Student Suspected Of Having Ibuprofen
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
Teachers Aren’t The Only Ones To Blame For Our Poor Schools
There are parents who let their kids get away with this kind of nonsense too. ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Would It Be Worth It To Pay Off Bad Teachers To Quit?
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
Public School Offers Homosexual Porn
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
American Kids Are Stupid
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
Harvard Exercising Discrimination By Banning Men From Exercise Center
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
California Court Rules That Parents Can’t Teach Their Own Children
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
Obama Offers College Tuition Tax Credit In Exchange For Indentured Servitude
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…...
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