Education
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
By
Rob
on April 18, 2007 at 08:22 pm
It’d be funny if it weren’t so pathetic. PROVIDENCE, R.I., April 18, 2007—Displaying a dramatic disregard for students’ constitutional rights, a committee of the University of Rhode Island (URI) Student…...
Saturday, March 31, 2007
By
Rob
on March 31, 2007 at 06:03 am
While speaking in front of a teacher’s union, naturally. CONCORD, N.H. - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday criticized the Bush administration for outsourcing teaching to private tutoring…...
Sunday, March 25, 2007
By
Rob
on March 25, 2007 at 05:48 pm
According to Dakota Women and the Fargo Forum there’s a “gender gap” among the tenured faculty and school administrator positions. A gap that the school’s leadership is looking to close.…...
Saturday, March 24, 2007
By
Rob
on March 24, 2007 at 10:31 pm
They’re getting back at him for daring to open more colleges and end race-based admissions policies. GAINESVILLE, Fla. - University of Florida President Bernie Machen said Friday he was “tremendously…...
Thursday, March 22, 2007
By
Rob
on March 22, 2007 at 05:15 pm
That’s the reaction I have to this bit of teary-eyed whining (via the Fargo Forum) from ND Dems Communications Director Rick Gion: Yesterday, Superintendent of Public Instruction Wayne Sanstead sent…...
Saturday, March 17, 2007
By
Rob
on March 17, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Grand Forks Herald editor Tom Dennis has a post up about the importance of the just-passed school vouchers legislation in Utah. He says that we in states that have school…...
By
Rob
on March 17, 2007 at 01:55 pm
Sand In The Gears: The University of California at Berkeley is looking to hire its first Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion, and I think it’s about darn time. I’m…...
Sunday, March 04, 2007
By
Rob
on March 4, 2007 at 09:08 pm
Hillary Clinton continues her push to perpetuate the government’s monopoly on education in this country despite having opted her own child out of the public school system. When the Clintons…...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
By
Rob
on February 27, 2007 at 01:09 pm
This could potentially open a huge bucket of worms. Supreme Court (AP) If parents want to sue public school districts in federal court over the special education needs of their…...
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Recently Rob posted a couple times about Steve Job’s comments on the American Education system. As a response to that we got inundated with a number of teachers’ union apologists. …...
By
Rob
on February 24, 2007 at 09:16 am
This is so ridiculous. BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge in Boston has dismissed a suit by two families who wanted to stop a Massachusetts town and its public school…...
Thursday, February 22, 2007
By
Rob
on February 22, 2007 at 12:50 pm
I think this headline should probably flipped around to read “Test scores contradict higher grades.” Because that’s the real story here. I’d be willing to wager that the rising test…...
Sunday, February 18, 2007
By
Rob
on February 18, 2007 at 06:03 pm
North Dakota’s legislature is considering it. I guess I don’t have much of a problem with all-day kindergarten per se. I think the kids can handle it, and parents who…...
Saturday, February 17, 2007
By
Rob
on February 17, 2007 at 06:10 pm
Like a breath of fresh air… Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions today, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could…...
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
By
Rob
on February 7, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Oh wonderful… BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University announced on Wednesday its biggest curriculum overhaul in three decades, putting new emphasis on sensitive religious and cultural issues, the sciences and overcoming…...
By
Rob
on February 7, 2007 at 03:43 pm
According to statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, no less. And the numbers don’t even include the cushy health and pension plans teachers enjoy either. According to the U.S.…...
Sunday, February 04, 2007
By
Rob
on February 4, 2007 at 10:10 pm
They’re close to passing legislation doing just that: (Axcess News) Salt Lake City, UT - The Utah House of Representatives narrowly passed a School Voucher program in a 38 to…...
Sunday, January 28, 2007
By
Rob
on January 28, 2007 at 11:36 am
For those interested, I’ve got a column in today’s edition of the Grand Forks Herald. It’s about North Dakota property taxes and school funding, my opinions on which won’t be…...
By
Rob
on January 28, 2007 at 11:29 am
Ruth R. Wisse, writing in the Wall Street Journal: The year was 1917. At the beginning of the spring semester, the Harvard Crimson reported that 1,000 undergraduates were ready to…...
Friday, January 26, 2007
By
Rob
on January 26, 2007 at 07:38 am
I think it may be… HARTLAND, Wis. - Lauren Panos was surprised when she walked into her ninth-grade English class in the fall and saw there were no boys. Her…...
Thursday, January 25, 2007
By
Rob
on January 25, 2007 at 11:27 am
Why? Because of the NCAA’s ban on Indian mascots and nicknames. The same university that is suing the NCAA will honor the organization with a human rights award on Friday.…...
Friday, January 19, 2007
By
Rob
on January 19, 2007 at 08:01 am
ND Democrat Minority Leader Merle Boucher has an op/ed in the Grand Forks Herald today making a predictable call for more money for North Dakota’s public schools. I know that…...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
By
Rob
on January 17, 2007 at 09:46 am
I see that the House is getting ready to vote on a cut in student loan interest rates. That’s a stupid move for two reasons: It’s just going to make…...
By
Rob
on January 17, 2007 at 08:33 am
The Fargo Forum has an interesting op/ed about the Democrat plan for funding North Dakota’s public schools, thus allegedly providing property tax relief (which is where the majority of school…...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
By
Rob
on January 16, 2007 at 08:08 pm
Chad Nodland, never one argue a point in a polite or even level-headed manner, has published a rather nasty screed on his blog in response to my concerns aired here…...
Sunday, January 14, 2007
By
Rob
on January 14, 2007 at 07:58 pm
My wife has been taking college courses on her way to becoming a Registered Nurse. A lot of the courses she takes are online courses (through the nursing program at…...
Monday, January 08, 2007
By
Rob
on January 8, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Given the education most of them seem to be getting in college they just aren’t qualified to hold many jobs. Case in point, this bizarre list of courses offered by…...
Friday, January 05, 2007
By
Rob
on January 5, 2007 at 05:57 pm
And we wonder were college kids get their sense of entitlement. A professor who was denied tenure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has vowed to start a hunger strike…...
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
By
Rob
on January 3, 2007 at 08:31 am
School vouchers are a controversial subject here in America. They are opposed, fiercely, by teachers’ unions and so-called “civil rights” groups even as the countries that use them beat our…...
Friday, December 08, 2006
By
Rob
on December 8, 2006 at 01:41 pm
I wonder if they’ve ever shown any drama club students decked out as knights or whatever? PORTSMOUTH — Patrick Agin’s portrait is welcome in the Portsmouth High School yearbook, school…...
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brad:
Didn't this admin talk with China? North Korea? Didn't Reagan talk with Russia? Talks bring...
realitybasedbob:
pp, the Dems have a history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. There...
pparets:
Lik & Bat: The liberals and dems smell victory like they haven't in 20 years!...
Bat One:
Lik, What you say is true. And your counsel is certainly prudent. But I expect...
likwidshoe:
The liberals are very good biding their time, fighting for what they want, and then...
goon:
OBAMA is sure talking big this week. The guy almost as bad as Jon Edwards...
