Archive for Category: "Education"

September 11, 2012 04:31

Chicago Teachers Union Makes War On Kids And Parents

In a city with double-digit unemployment, teachers who can’t be fired and who make more than double what their students’ parents make, have gone on strike. Anyone for school choice? – IBD

September 5, 2012 05:47

The Machine: The Truth Behind Teachers Unions

The machine that runs the K-12 education system isn’t designed to produce better schools. It’s designed to produce more money for unions and more donations for politicians. More ….

August 22, 2012 06:13

Educational Lunacy

If I were a Klansman, wanting to sabotage black education, I couldn’t find better allies than education establishment liberals and officials in the Obama administration, especially Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

August 17, 2012 05:52

Education is the Foundation of the Socialist Future

Nikita Khrushchev, said “The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will raise it themselves. We can’t expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.”

July 31, 2012 11:31

Friedman’s Legacy of Fighting for School Choice for All

“There is no respect in which inhabitants of a low-income neighborhood are so disadvantaged as in the kind of schooling they can get for their children.” – Milton Friedman

July 26, 2012 05:01

Theater Shooter a Product of “Liberal” Education

“‘In academic achievement, he was at the top of the top,’ recalled [University of California] Riverside Chancellor Timothy P. White.”

July 18, 2012 14:08

Cultural Equivalency

I have never seen an entire nation so eager to give away and destroy their country and their American exceptionalism in exchange for the progressives’ cultural Marxism promoted in American textbooks and taught by academia’s promise of equality.

July 12, 2012 08:35

Senate Considers Dangerous United Nations Treaty Undermining Parental Rights

Call your senator 202-2243121! It is outrageous that U.S. senators would support a treaty that surrenders U.S. sovereignty and family integrity to unelected U.N. bureaucrats.

July 12, 2012 06:19

Bursting the College Bubble

According to a 2011 survey, 53.6% of bachelor’s degree-holders under the age of 25 were unemployed or underemployed—working lower-skilled jobs such as waiter, retail clerk, bartender, and the like, making little or no use of their college education.

July 6, 2012 06:13

Dumb & Dumber – Inflated GPA and Tuition

Perhaps students find it easier to accept rising tuition, higher textbook prices, and $25,000 in average student loan debt if they at least graduate with mostly As and a GPA above 3.0? Even if they can’t find a job, they can take pride in having “earned” an inflated GPA?