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Category Archives: Education
Ethnostatism Fails
The movement of “ethnic studies” curricula from colleges to public schools, is something that troubles many of us who have experienced such classes in modern times. Ethnic studies programs are often called “multiculturalist,” but since they tend to be monoethnic … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Lee's Page
Tagged academia, academic, American history, Arizona, Arizona Republic, astrology, astronomy, Che Guevara, colleges, cultural, curriculum, Department of Education Reform, Doug Maceachern, ethnic studies, ethnostatism, fascism, government, History, Jay P. Greene, math, monoethnic, multiculturalism, non sequitur, political, public schools, raza studies, trigonometry, Tucson, Tucson Union School District, TUSD, University of Arkansas
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Freedom of Choice
Why do so many deny parents the ability to chose a superior education for their child? The straight talk on education. “Parents ask only for schools that are safe, teachers who are competent, and diplomas that open doors of opportunity,” … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Education, Peg's Page
Tagged Education, educational choice, private schools
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Middle Class Burdens
Thanks to Don Boudreaux, I found this “Inconvenient Truth” about the struggles of the middle class. As readers here know, I have long been a bear on housing, but as always those who want their hands on our wallet can … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Education, Lance's Page
Tagged Education, housing, taxes
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Teach Your Children Well
From a Wall Street Journal reader: “The courageous thing for Congress to do would be to get rid of student-loan subsidies entirely. Then watch tuitions tumble towards ‘the affordable’ as academe realizes nobody’s throwing money at it any more.” – … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Education
Tagged Domestic Politics, Education, student loans
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8 year old suspended for sniffing marker
The story. Eathan shyly shook his head “no” when a reporter asked if he knew about “huffing.” He does now.
Teaching violence…
Last night I was wiping blood off my 15 year old daughter’s face. It ran from her nose down over her mouth and chin and I hoped that I wasn’t too rough and hurting her while I did it, but … Continue reading
Competition
Competition plays a large role in much of my life. As a tournament bridge player, competition is the name of the game. The better you do, the more you rate to win. The more you do to learn, improve your … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Education, Peg's Page
Tagged Democratic Party, Education, free trade, NAFTA, protectionism, vouchers
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Tragic News for Leftists
Due to free markets, capitalism and freedom in general, the world is getting wealthier. The last quarter century has witnessed remarkable progress of mankind. The world’s per capita inflation-adjusted income rose from $5400 in 1980 to $8500 in 2005.Schooling and … Continue reading
The Sickening
A Cuban medical office with a sign reading “No prescriptions available.” Photo by: Dr. Darsi Ferrer [via The Real Cuba]. News of Fidel Castro’s retirement has elicited some interesting responses. Chris Bertram’s has to be one of the most arrogant … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Education, Foreign affairs, Health Care, MichaelW's Page
Tagged apologists, communism, Cuba, Education, Fidel Castro, Health Care, Michael Moore, retires, socialism, The Real Cuba
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Am I anti-Intellectual or…
…am I just not impressed by YOU? Jules Crittenden responds to a column by Susan Jacoby The Dumbing of America. She concludes… It is past time for a serious national discussion about whether, as a nation, we truly value intellect … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Society, Synova's Page, Uncategorized
Tagged anti-intellectualism, Education, elitism
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Freedom can’t exist without trusting the untrustworthy
This is an extension of the commentary from this post from MichaelW. Have you heard the truism that a person is smart, but people are dumb? On the one hand it’s profoundly true. On the other hand we fail to … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libertarianism, Society, Synova's Page
Tagged Education, free markets, futuristic, individual freedom, liberty
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An Argument Against Public Education
Via Glenn Reynolds, Wired posts an article describing the fight to include evolution in the science curriculum for students in Florida and Texas: Charles Darwin was born 199 years ago Tuesday, but the debate he ignited about the origins of … Continue reading
Just Imagine
(Cross posted at Whatif?) George Santayana told us: “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” What on earth do you do, though, with those who never learned any history in the first place? A fifth of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, History, Peg's Page
Tagged Education, Florence Nightengale, History, Richard the Lionheart, Santayana, Sherlock Holmes, Winston Churchill
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Harming Poor Kids
(Cross Posted at Whatif?) The next time one of your liberal associates begins to rail about how conservatives are selfish and don’t care about the less fortunate among us – you show them this. Chicago is gearing up for … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Education, Libertarianism, Peg's Page
Tagged Education, Pell Grants for Kids, poor, urban schools, vouchers
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Education and Socialization
All four of my children have been homeschooled, and one of the complaints about homeschooling that irritates me the most, is that it is socially damaging. My children have various social strengths and weaknesses, just as kids I knew in … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Lance's Page, Society
Tagged Education, homeschooling, socialization, teaching
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Valdosta State Follow-Up
Following up on my first post here on A Secondhand Conjecture, I’m happy to say that the troubles T. Hayden Barnes had seem to have come to a happy conclusion. The student, who was once a “clear and present danger” … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Education
Tagged 1st amendment, facebook, fire, free speech, university, Valdosta
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A political education
“Your sister thinks Huckabee is great.” “Mom,” I told the phone, exasperated, “He’s not even Republican!” My first participation in politics was a proudly worn “I (heart) DRNBGR” button that some son-of-a-Democrat defaced at a high school speech competition. (What … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Election 2008, Uncategorized
Tagged Domestic Politics, Education, third parties, youth vote
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First Bureaucratic Victim of Post VirginiaTech Environment
A sophomore at Valdosta State University was expelled after criticizing his university’s plan to build two new parking garages with student fees. In a letter apparently slipped under his dorm room door, Ronald Zaccari, the university’s president, wrote that he … Continue reading
“Apparently, in France, demand curves do not slope downwards”
Megan McArdle comments on a piece in The Economist regarding the appalling state of economics education in France and Germany: When the 35 hour work week was proposed, I was talking to someone in the French consulate who did economics … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Education, Foreign affairs, MichaelW's Page, social science
Tagged Economics, Education, France, Germany
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Some Economic Perspective
[youtube uJo7GG15kMU] Hat tip: Greg Mankiw
Posted in Developmental economics, Economics, Education, Lance's Page
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The Ultimate Resource Returns
Starting this Friday, November 2nd, Free to Choose Media is continuing the work of its inspiration, Milton Friedman, of bringing the benefits of freedom to the people of this world, including its most remote corners. A new documentary, “The Ultimate … Continue reading
Yet More Indoctrination
I know the left takes its For The ChildrenTM rhetoric seriously. However, I was not aware just how pervasively their anti-capitalism, anti-Bush, anti-war, and anti-military agenda was being pushed on our kids. Nickelodeon is the latest indoctrination arena where a … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Education, Media, MichaelW's Page, Society
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Closed Minded Bigots
I found this post very apt to a situation we’ve highlighted here on this blog. I’ve noticed this time and time again, and have shut off even trying to change minds when I encounter this behavior. Best to point it … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Domestic Politics, Education, Keith's Page
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Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later — Indoctrination
I hadn’t ever seen this series before, but I have to admit that I find this stuff pretty damn scary: That’s just a snippet of what is apparently being taught to our kids of high school age. Not only are … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Media, MichaelW's Page, Race, Society
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Shift Happens
Sometimes information like this makes me sit back and think “whoa” (sounding to much like neo in the matrix.) Not only is this a small world (which we often forget,) but it is becoming an exponentially complex and interconnected one. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Economics, Education, History, Keith's Page, Religion and theology, Society, Technology
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Bill Gates: Economic Piker
In inflation adjusted terms Bill Gates isn’t close to the wealthiest American ever. In fact, he comes in 13th(small pdf) and only about 1/6th as wealthy as numero uno. Don’t let your kids read the next fact: The average net … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Lance's Page
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The steady march to totalitarianism
Chavez begins bending another set of private institutions to his will.
Posted in Education, Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, Lance's Page
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Huh?
UC Irvine law school fires him for being too liberal? About a week ago, Erwin Chemerinsky, the well-known constitutional law scholar at Duke, signed a contract to be the inaugural Dean of the new law school at the University of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Lance's Page, Law
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My stupid state
I love Louisiana, but I can only argue about degree (not that I should) when it comes to what JR Ball has to say in the Baton Rouge Business Report (a truly wonderful publication, one of the nations best): Of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Lance's Page, Louisiana Politics
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Is Income Inequality such a bad thing?
Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy: Income inequality in China substantially widÂened, particularly between households in the city and the countryside, after China began its rapid rate of economic development around 1980. The averÂage urban resident now makes 3.2 times as … Continue reading
“The Ultimate Resource” Debut’s Tonight
For more on this television event at 10PM EST on HDNet you can go here and also see another excerpt on video here. This clip introduces you to James Tooley, Hernando De Soto and Muhammad Yunus whose work this show … Continue reading
“… is this what we want …?”
Nicholas Winset is a professor at Emmanuel College in Boston, Mass. Or, at least, he was until a few days ago: A professor at Emmanuel College has been fired for his in-class re-enactment of the Virginia Tech shootings. Nicholas Winset … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Education, MichaelW's Page
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Shift Happens: No more boring statistics
(Via: Pajamas) Please watch this. In understanding the world our ignorance is a problem, but greater still are the things which we believe we know about the world that we do not. Luckily for you, this is entertaining. Within minutes … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Developmental economics, Economics, Education, Race, social science, Technology
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Computer Language Pioneer John Backus Passes
From the New York Times via Pajamas Media, I learned that John Backus died on Saturday. Now, the name probably doesn’t mean anything to most people. In fact, it didn’t mean anything to me, until I saw the computer language … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Keith's Page, Technology
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Schools & Social Engineering
Podcast Follow-Up: One of the articles that I mentioned in the podcast (which, looking back on it, was only tangentially related to the topic at hand, and only in the kindest sense of the term “tangential”) involved the Hilltop Children’s … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Economics, Education, Libertarianism, MichaelW's Page, social science
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“Milton Friedman Dayâ€
California and Chicago both declared today “Milton Friedman Day.†And PBS is going to air his biography, “The Power of Choice” tonight. Friedman’s impact on history isn’t limited to economic prosperity. Joseph Bast, president of the Heartland Institute, explains Friedman’s … Continue reading
Nobody’s Fault But The Blogs
I haven’t weighed in on the Duke rape scandal primarily because it’s been handled quite thoroughly elsewhere. However, today I read (via Insty) what can only be described as a model of supreme self-deception and insipid anlalysis:
Posted in Domestic Politics, Education, Law, Media, MichaelW's Page
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Religion in Academia
From Robin Hanson’s fascinating blog, Overcoming Bias, I found this: Last November we learned that the US public believes in God more than college professors, who believe more than professors at elite schools: Almost a third answered “none” when asked … Continue reading
From the Department of “No Kidding”
I went to get a copy of my local paper today, and while I was there I glanced over at the cover of USA Today to see what they were reporting, and I saw this headline: Costs keep students from … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Education, Lance's Page
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