education
How Convenient
Tea parties issue demands to Tennessee legislators » The Commercial Appeal The material calls for lawmakers to amend state laws governing school curriculums, and for textbook selection criteria to say that “No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority [...]
More evidence of the failures of our education system
9/11 Responders blame the Democrats for not getting their health bill passed. The Washington Monthly The assumption is based on an idea — Congress operates by majority rule — that should be true but isn’t. For much of the country, procedures like “filibusters,” “secret holds,” and “cloture votes” are completely foreign. Indeed, it’s very likely [...]
An Inconvienent Truth
I was listening to a story on NPR this morning about how manufacturers have taken phosphates out of dishwasher detergent. As a result, dishes aren’t coming as clean as they once had. One of the persons interviewed about the problem said she wasn’t so sure that phosphates caused algae blooms and so they should put [...]
Does anyone else think that these might be related?
Hoodlums – Ta-Nehisi Coates – National – The Atlantic There are roughly 2.3 million people in jails and prisons in America, more than any country in the world. The United States has 756 people in jail per 100,000 people. No other country has more than 700, and only two are over 600 Russia (629) and [...]
Cynthia Dunbar is scary
Educator ripped for her book criticizing public schools | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle In her book, One Nation Under God, Dunbar argues that the country’s founding fathers created “an emphatically Christian government” and believed that government should be guided by a “biblical litmus test.” Dunbar endorses a belief system requiring [...]
Death threat as a motivation technique
Education | MySanAntonio.com No charges will be brought against New Braunfels Middle School Principal John Burks for allegedly threatening to kill a group of science teachers if their students’ standardized test scores failed to improve, although all four teachers at the meeting told police investigators Burks made the statement. Now imagine if some student at [...]
What is being taught? What is being learned?
Education | MySanAntonio.com Students at Medina Valley High School in Castroville say more of them spent the day in in-school suspension than in class because they chose to wear the color green to school after being told not to. So now we know what’s important to students and that the school administration is more than [...]
It had to come from an educrat
With the Top 10 % Rule, obviously more people are paying attention to how schools rank the students. MySA.com: KENS 5: Education Catherine takes mostly AP courses, and under the district’s system those courses earn more points than regular classes. But for three years of soccer, she earned no points at all. North East adopted [...]
If you can’t join them, sue them
Now they’re suing UT for considering race in the admissions that fall outside the top 10 percent. UT sued for considering race in admissions “But for her race and ethnicity, it is our belief she would have been admitted to the University of Texas,” said Edward Blum, director of the Project on Fair Representation, a [...]
Progressive homeschooling
Ask Rockridge: Can a Progressive Support Homeschooling? — Rockridge Nation So, yes progressives can support homeschooling. But apparently with quite a few “ifs”. I really can’t bring myself to read through all the comments. I’m sure there is the usual education as the foundation for democracy and so on. I’m sure there are plenty of [...]