Skool Daze- and Why Public Education Sucks: A Memoir
Guest Contributor Michael tells a jaundiced tale of education and the people who do it that is likely familiar to many of the Glibs.
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A charlatan, a Bagdhad Battery and a six year old pixie
mexican sharpshooter explores spanking, the NAP, and how to raise would-be libertarian females.
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The Nation Misses The Point on Counterterrorism
I have no doubt that Ariana Grande means well, but she’s dead wrong. Inclusiveness is no strategy to fight terrorism. It is a strategy to offer people an opportunity to assimilate to an enlightened western culture.
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Reviews You’ll Never Use: Class of 1999
This week, we’ll do something a bit unusual, and review a sequel to a film instead of the original. Why? Tune in to find out.
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Teachers Are Underpaid
Yet some areas still seem to have impressive teacher salaries.
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Separation of college and sex
I’ve just finished The Campus Rape Frenzy, by K. C. Johnson and Stuart Taylor, Jr. The...
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Focus on the Family – A Cultural Rumination
If you think family values come from families–not parties–you might be a libertarian.
Read MoreHorace Flack – The state official whose scholarship pressured the states to obey the Bill of Rights (with Southern Gothic backstory)
The Fusionist looks into a Southerner with a dark family secret, whose scholarship showed that the Bill of Rights was meant to apply to the states – versus some Bill-of-Rights-ignoring Yankees. In constitutional politics, sometimes Frankfurter bites down on you.
Read MoreFCC Chairman Calls For Rollback Of Net Neutrality “Mistake”
Proponents and enemies of net neutrality can stop guessing what the new head of the FCC will do. He has made it abundantly clear that he will move to dismantle the rule. “It has become evident that the FCC made a...
Read MoreTexas “Boy” Wins Texas Girls Wrestling Tournament – Largest Media Sports Outlet Reports On Story With Comments Turned Off
Mack Beggs, a female transitioning to be a male by using massive amounts of steroids completed an undefeated season Saturday by winning a controversial Texas state girls wrestling title in an event clouded by criticism from...
Read MoreA History Of American Public Education: Part 4 in a 4 Part Series
Click here for Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 Part 4: It’s Broke, so let’s Fix It Secularization of Public Schools While the Progressive Protestants did get the generic Protestant education implemented in the public schools, it was...
Read MoreHR 610 and the Conundrum of School Choice
by Tonio The full text of HR 610 may be found here. H.R.610 – To distribute Federal funds for elementary and secondary education in the form of vouchers for eligible students and to repeal a certain rule relating to...
Read MoreA History Of American Public Education: Part 3 in a 4 Part Series
For Part 1 and Part 2 Part 3: Taking the Reins A Mann with a Plan Through the mid-19th century, a group of educational reformers led by Horace Mann became interested in the Prussian model of education. The Prussians had slowly...
Read MoreA History Of American Public Education: Part 2 in a 4 Part Series
For Part 1, go here . Part 2: Eugenics and Anti-Catholic Sentiment The other side of the Progressive movement was a secular philosophy anchored in the theories of Darwin and in an increased role of government. Social...
Read MoreA History Of American Public Education: Part 1 of 4
An explanation of some of the 19th Century factors that went into the whole-hog acceptance of compulsory public education, and a little bit of analysis of how to roll some of this back.
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HR 610 – Restoring Parental Freedom to Pack Lunches, Etc.
Congressman Steve King (R, IA) has introduced HR 610, titled Choices in Education Act of 2017. The bill does two things – establishes a nationwide voucher program and tinkers with the school lunch regulations.
Read MoreThursday Afternoon Links
California Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez introduced a bill to make California a “shall-issue” state. “It is our Constitutional right to defend ourselves,” said sponsor Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez, a Republican...
Read MoreDeconstructing the ‘Liberal Campus’ Cliche?
Are American universities now spaces where democratic free expression is in decline, where insecurity, fear, and an obsessive, self-preening political correctness make open dialogue impossible?
Read MoreEducation Rorschach
When Mr. Hess made efforts to discuss a left bias with his fellow educators and colleagues, the response was, in part, to ask whether any possible bias was a “product of his imagination”. He would like you to judge for yourself.
Read MoreGeraldo Rivera Causes Meltdown On Social Media Over Yale Step-down
In a move against political correctness run amok, Geraldo Rivera, who made his name unlocking the secrets of the Al Capone vault and giving away US troop positions in Iraq has decided to step down as an Associate Fellow at Yale...
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