Education
MICHAEL BARONE:: College Bubble Bursts After Decades of Extravagance | RCP
By MB Snow at May 13, 2013 | 11:11 am
By Michael Barone - May 9, 2013 -- Markets work. But sometimes they take time. That's the uncomfortable lesson that proprietors of America's colleges and universities are learning. For many years, market forces didn't seem to apply to them. There was a widespread societal consensus that a college education was a good economic investment. Politicians gave lip ... Go To Article
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EDUCATION: Two Moms vs. Common Core | National Review Online
By MB Snow at May 12, 2013 | 9:41 am
MAY 12, 2013 4:00 AM How an eight-year-old’s homework assignment led to a political upheaval Heather Crossin, Emmett McGroarty, and Erin Tuttle Indiana has become the first state to retreat from the Common Core standards, as Governor Mike Pence has just signed a bill suspending their implementation. A great deal has been written and spoken about Common Core, ... Go To Article
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HENNINGER: Meet Generation Jobbed – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 9, 2013 | 7:31 am
WONDER LANDMay 8, 2013, 6:34 p.m. ET, Henninger: Meet Generation Jobbed Who will get the political blame for the sky-high joblessness among younger voters? Twitter has reduced historical memory to minutes, but think back to what had the political class atwitter last week. Back then the air filled with worry on the left that Barack Obama was losing his juice after ... Go To Article
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DENNIS PRAGER:: Free Breakfasts: Another Destructive Liberal Idea | RCP
By MB Snow at May 8, 2013 | 1:16 pm
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) announced last week that it will discontinue the free school breakfast plan it initiated last year. Called "Food for Thought," the plan provides school breakfasts to about 200,000 students. It was funded by the LAUSD and the nonprofit Los Angeles Fund for Public Education, whose goal is to raise the number who ... Go To Article
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ROGER PILON: Graduates, Your Ambition Is the Problem – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 8, 2013 | 1:47 am
By ROGER PILON, OPINION May 7, 2013 Obama's commencement speech at Ohio State on Sunday would have perplexed the Founders. Civic education in America took a hit on Sunday when President Obama, giving the commencement address at The Ohio State University, chose citizenship as his theme. The country's Founders trusted citizens with "awesome authority," he told the ... Go To Article
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MUST VIEW: INSANITY IN TEXAS: [NEWS VIDEO LINK] High School Runner Points At God, Gets Team Disqualified | WebProNews
By MB Snow at May 3, 2013 | 3:55 pm
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HERE'S THE UNIVERSITY INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE LINK:...http://www.uiltexas.org A high school track team from Columbus, Texas was disqualified when a runner pointed to the sky after crossing the finish line. The issue is being discussed as possible religious discrimination, though the reason given for disqualification was not based on religion, but because the gesture was ... Go To Article
THE WEEKEND INTERVIEW WITH DONALD KAGAN: ‘Democracy May Have Had Its Day’ – WSJ.com
By MB Snow at April 27, 2013 | 10:14 am
THE WEEKEND INTERVIEWApril 26, 2013, By MATTHEW KAMINSKI, New Haven, Conn. Donald Kagan, Yale's great classicist gives his final lecture, fighting as ever for Western civilization. Donald Kagan is engaging in one last argument. For his "farewell lecture" here at Yale on Thursday afternoon, the 80-year-old scholar of ancient Greece—whose four-volume history of ... Go To Article
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GLOBAL WARMING:: New teaching standards delve more deeply into climate change – LATimes
By MB Snow at April 10, 2013 | 9:31 am
By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times April 9, 2013, 9:38 p.m. -- The politically touchy topic of climate change will be taught more deeply to students under proposed new national science standards released Tuesday. via New teaching standards delve more deeply into climate change - ... Go To Article
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RICH LOWRY:: MSNBC: Kids Don’t Belong to Their Parents | RCP
By MB Snow at April 9, 2013 | 9:58 am
By Rich Lowry - April 9, 2013 -- The TV cable-news network MSNBC runs sermonettes from its anchors during ad breaks. They’re like public-service announcements illuminating the progressive mind — and perhaps none has ever been as revealing and remarkable as the one cut by weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry. Harris-Perry set out to explain what is, by her lights, ... Go To Article
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GEORGE WILL:: Schools push a curriculum of propaganda – WaPo
By MB Snow at April 4, 2013 | 10:26 am
By George F. Will, Published: April 3 -- The real vocation of some people entrusted with delivering primary and secondary education is to validate this proposition: The three R’s — formerly reading, ’riting and ’rithmetic — now are racism, reproduction and recycling. Especially racism. Consider Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction. It evidently ... Go To Article
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