Contrary to Obama’s political rhetoric, more taxpayer spending to send more students to college will not reduce unemployment or improve the economy.
Continue reading →Since Obama became President he has increased student aid by nearly 50 percent to $145 billion a year, including an additional $10 billion in Pell grants.
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The most widely used history textbook in U.S. public schools is A People’s History of the United States by the late Howard Zinn.
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Barack Obama’s pandering to the feminists makes him look like the suitor who is unwilling to face up to his beloved’s announcing she will marry another man. In desperation, he showers her with expensive gifts, hoping to win back her favor.
Continue reading →Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a federal law passed to prohibit discrimination “on the basis of sex” in schools and colleges. Its sponsors solemnly promised it would never result in quotas, so it seemed like a good law to assure women every educational opportunity.
Continue reading →The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights announced in November that it will investigate whether colleges illegally discriminate against women by admitting less qualified men.
Continue reading →A robotics competition for high school students interested in engineering, a program that now attracts about 200,000 student-competitors and nearly 100,000 volunteers.
Continue reading →How can we explain continued public support for Barack Obama’s extremist spending plans, even though it is painfully obvious that his much touted “remaking America” means mortgaging the financial future of young people with trillions of dollars in debt?
Continue reading →How can we explain continued public support for Barack Obama’s extremist spending plans, even though it is painfully obvious that his much touted “remaking America” means mortgaging the financial future of young people with trillions of dollars in debt?
Continue reading →Can you name the three branches of American government, legislative, executive, and judicial?
Continue reading →Rush Limbaugh’s 20-year domination of talk radio is a remarkable testament to the durability of conservative ideas as well as to Rush’s skill and courage in explaining controversial conservative principles in an entertaining style.
Continue reading →The high-priced corporate lobbyists walking Capitol Hill corridors have a new mantra: innovation. They demand that Congress bring in more guest workers, especially from Asia, in order to maintain American innovation supremacy.
Continue reading →A survey of British teenagers recently reported that a fifth of under-twenties kids believe Winston Churchill, Richard the Lionheart and Florence Nightingale were fictional characters, but that Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes and King Arthur were real people.
Continue reading →A survey of British under-age-twenty kids recently reported that more than a fifth of them believe Winston Churchill, Richard the Lionheart and Florence Nightingale were fictional characters, but that Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes and King Arthur were real people.
Continue reading →U.S. News & World Report, which has made a name for itself by ranking and announcing the Best Colleges every year, is now ranking and listing the Best Careers for young people.
Continue reading →The bad news is that Shakespeare has disappeared from required courses in English departments at more than three-fourths of the top 25 U.S. universities, but the good news is that only 1.6 percent of America’s 19 million undergraduates major in English (according to Department of Education figures).
Continue reading →A new grab for power over education now lurking in the corridors of Congress reminds me of a song popular in the Harry James/Frank Sinatra era: “I’ve Heard That Song Before.” Section 3401, inserted by the Senate (but not the House) in the pending America COMPETES Act (S.761), would give us another costly and harmful expansion of the federal education bureaucracy.
Continue reading →What was the motive behind 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui’s killing of 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech? Why was he consumed with hate, resentment and bitterness?
Continue reading →Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says that the Federal Government needs some accountability for the billions of dollars the taxpayers pour into university education.
Continue reading →Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says that the Federal Government needs some accountability for the billions of dollars the taxpayers pour into university education. That’s right, we do; but her plan, to set up a national database to track students, plus a system of testing like No Child Left Behind, is not the solution.
Continue reading →The technology industry has dispatched its wallet-filled lobbyists to demand that the new Congress vastly increase the number of foreign computer software techies and engineers who can be imported on H-1B visas.
Continue reading →It took parents 17 years to overturn the tragic 1989 curriculum mistake made by the so-called education experts who demanded that schools abandon traditional mathematics in favor of unproven approaches.
Continue reading →Each year the Supreme Court grants fewer and fewer petitions for “cert,” or review, and now hears only about half the cases it heard 25 years ago. This means that many lower federal court decisions are final.
Continue reading →Bush entered the White House in 2001 hoping he would be known in history books as the education president who raised public school standards with “No child left behind.” It now looks like his legacy will be “No illegal alien left behind.”
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