The Day I Had To Explain To My Daughter That I’m Not A Drug Addict
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…...
Education
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Romney Wants Subsidies For Homeschooling
Normally I’m an advocate for home schooling and school choice, but I don’t like Romney’s plan on this one. The point of school choice is to introduce market forces into…...
One-Way Multiculturalism
(via Red Planet Cartoons)
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Who Is Raising Our Kids, Us Or The Government?
David Harsanyi (author of a great new book about the nanny state) basically asks that question in this column about a special task force in Colorado recommending that contraception and…...
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Student Suspended, Then Expelled, For Bringing Butter Knife To School
The sort of ignorant nonsense government employees get up to never ceases to amaze me. Amber Dauge says that stupid decision was taking a butter knife to school. Amber ran…...
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Private Schools No Better Than Public Schools?
The Center on Education Policy (an advocacy group with an agenda to promote public schools over private schools) has released a study in which they conclude that private schools are…...
Thursday, October 04, 2007
What Are Our Priorities When It Comes To Education
Last night I was in Bismarck staying at my sister’s house in preparation for flying out to Washington DC this morning. I was sitting in her living room listening to…...
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Why You Send Your Kids To College
Around the world nations like India have universities running at full capacity to crank out scientists, mathematicians and engineers. Here in America, our kids go to college to attend Hot…...
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad To Speak At Columbia University
Meanwhile, military recruiters and former Harvard President Larry Summers aren’t welcome on many US college campuses. To be clear, I don’t have much of a problem with Ahmadinejad visiting Columbia. …...
Friday, September 07, 2007
House Votes To Make College More Expensive
And, ironically, the bill that passed is called the “College Cost Reduction Act.” From North Dakota Representative Earl Pomeroy’s press release about the bill: Washington, D.C. – Congressman Earl Pomeroy…...
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Thirteen Year Old Boy Suspended From School For Drawing Picture Of A Gun
Sigh... A 13-year-old boy has been suspended for three days by an Arizona public school because he sketched a picture that resembled a gun, something school officials said they “absolutely”…...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
“A College Degree Is Nothing More Than A Ticket To Compete”
That’s a lesson one college graduate learned the hard way, but it’s something I wish more college-bound students knew going in. ...[a] degree is a piece of paper. It’s not…...
Friday, July 27, 2007
Why Tuition Entitlements Are Stupid
Because colleges are incredibly rich, are eating up all the tax dollars we’re throwing at them and constantly raising tuition on our students. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, fresh from an…...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Edwards: I’ll Fix Education By Making Rich Kids Go To Inner-City Schools, Vice Versa
Sigh… NEW ORLEANS—Sen. John Edwards plans to warn later this week that the nation’s schools have become segregated by race and income, and he will propose measures to diversify both…...
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Best Judicial Opinion Ever
All you can say is...ouch. I concede that this short opinion of mine does not consider or take into account the majority opinion. So I should disclose at the outset…...
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Earl Pomeroy Applauds Passing Of “Let’s Make College More Expensive” Bill
This is so absurd. Congressman Earl Pomeroy today voted for legislation that would boost college financial aid by about $18 billion nationally and by $14 million in North Dakota over…...
Saturday, June 30, 2007
The Problem With A Lot Of College Grads
Dilbert illustrates it perfectly: ...
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Liberals On SCOTUS Not Really Liking Being In The Minority
They’re frustrated. WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer shook his head. He rolled his eyes. He even grimaced once or twice as he listened to Chief Justice John Roberts…...
Supreme Court Rules That Racial Discrimination (AKA “Affirmative Action") In Schools Is Wrong
Even when that discrimination has “diversity” or other good intentions as it’s basis. The problem is that far too many people in the government tend to see the various racial…...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
North Dakota Democrats Trash Government Transparency
It is with no small amount of mirth that I note the North Dakota Democrats sniping, on their official blog, at the idea of government transparency in the form of…...
Friday, June 15, 2007
Public Schools Failing Minority Students
Disturbing... Statistics show that more than 50 percent of black male students fail to graduate with their class each year. In some urban jurisdictions such as New York and Chicago,…...
Friday, June 01, 2007
All Day Kindergarten Increasing Education Costs
I’m pretty sure that this decision was made explicitly to create more teaching jobs rather than to improve education for kindergarten-aged students. After all, given the costs associated with the…...
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Students Protesting After Not Being Allowed To Graduate Because Of Failing Grade On Test
Because you shouldn’t have to know stuff to graduate, I guess: FORT WORTH — Students who had been planning to walk across the stage at graduation ceremonies this weekend were…...
Monday, May 21, 2007
Indoctrination, Not Education
Sheesh... First it was his world history class. Then he saw it in his economics class. And his world issues class. And his environment class. In total, 18-year-old McKenzie, a…...
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Convicted Prostitutes As Teachers?
An Oregon Democrat is on board with it… SALEM, Ore. (AP) _ The Oregon Senate has approved a bill allowing some women convicted of misdemeanor prostitution to be eligible for…...
Monday, May 07, 2007
Education Vouchers Working All Over The World
A fantastically interesting read in the Economist: Harry Patrinos, an education economist at the World Bank, cites a Colombian programme to broaden access to secondary schooling, known as PACES, a…...
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Georgia Schools Teaching Bible Classes
I know there’s a post about “religion in public schools” and the never-ending “separation of church and state” debate (which is a farce, by the way) in this article somewhere……...
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Kid Gets Charged With Disorderly Conduct For Writing A “Disturbing” Paper In Writing Class
Sigh... One wonders what would have happened to a Stephen King or a H.P. Lovecraft in that class. ...
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Students More Likely To Win Lottery, Get Hit By Lightning Twice, Than Get Shot In School Shooting
Interesting... But the annual campus crime database that serves as a monument to Clery’s life shows that of the more than 300,000 crimes reported at the nation’s 9,200 colleges and…...
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Democrat Jim McGreevey To Teach Ethics Course At New Jersey College
Yes, that would be the same Jim McGreevey who resigned as governor of that state for appointing his homosexual lover (who he was cheating on his wife with) as Homeland…...
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