Tagged: Education

KRON-TV reports on Secret Service Questions Students: For years the classroom has been the setting for the free expression of ideas, but two weeks ago certain ideas led to two students being taken out...

Yesterday, I linked to a Washington Times story on teachers taunting children of deployed military members. The story pissed me off. Which, of course, was the intent of the writer, Robert Stacy McCain. In...

  UPDATE: Since publication of this post, it has been revealed that Robert Stacy McCain is actually a gigantic liar and neo-confederate scumbag. He changed facts, embellished and lied in the article I quote...

A California State Senator is once again trying to legislate patriotism: Students in California are currently required to participate in a daily "patriotic exercise," which may include a moment of silence. But that is...

Jane Ehrenfeld, in Teacher Magazine (disclosure alert: my wife has written for this rag in the past) on Hide Your Books: "To Ms. Ehrenfeld: This morning I observed that during the morning news program,...

Jon Caldara of the Independence Institute on Expelled, and it wasn't even a real phaser: One of Mitch's friends purchased a laser pointer and a second friend brought it to school one day. He...

Received the following message from Casey Lartigue: Cato's education policy analyst Casey Lartigue, Jr. will be interviewed by guest host Walter Williams on Rush Limbaugh's radio show on Thursday, December 26 at 1 p.m....

I've stumbled upon another university linking to The Multiracial Activist as a resource for a course. This one, offered by Arizona State University is on Recreation and Tourism for Diverse Populations. TMA has in...

Earlier this week, my little boy (five) told me that "a sniper is out in woods shooting at people." (sigh) I asked him where he heard that from, figuring a classmate told him or...

Glenn J. Sacks has written a new commentary on the subject of The ‘Boy Parent Dilemma'. As the father of brand-new kindergartener, I can especially relate to this paragraph: Success in school is tightly...