Category: Education

Immigration Is Also A Key Issue In 2012

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Despite his moderate character, Mitt Romney could be the most conservative candidate we’ve had on immigration in over a decade. : Regardless, immigration should be front and center because it is an economic issue. After all, our large welfare apparatus is one of the main reasons why immigrants flock to the United States. : In addition, legal […]

 

Video Interview with Glenn Reynolds on The Higher Education Bubble

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Since my blog was one of many inspired by Instapundit.com in the immediate wake of 9/11, and since it’s celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, I had wanted to do a video interview with Glenn Reynolds to discuss the history and state of the Blogosphere. Given that he has a new “Broadside” (much longer than […]

 

Politico Forgets to Mention Democrats Caused Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Problem

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In its update on the coming student loan interest rate hike deal in Congress, Politico dances its blame-the-GOP tap dance once again saying that the coming rate hike is all just “politics.” But somehow Politico forgets to note that this interest rate problem is of the Democrats’ own making in the first place. Reporting that […]

 

What causes tuition to be so high? Who is going to get stuck with the bill?

Posted on by Wintery Knight

First, from Yahoo News,: some anecdotes: to help everyone understand what faces young people trying to get an education and find a job. (H/T: Captain Capitalism) Excerpt: We asked Yahoo News readers to tell us their experiences with student loan debt. Over 600 graduates (and not-quite graduates) of all ages emailed to share their stories. We’ll be sharing […]

 

Abortion-Supporting Obama Makes Pregnant WH Visitors Register Unborn Baby as Separate Visitor

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is interesting that the Obama White House, a place where everyone thinks a pre-born baby is just a lump of “unviable cells” and not really a person, is now insisting that pregnant mothers must register themselves and their unborn baby on the visitor log when they visit the White House. As noted by Steven […]

 

Traitors: American Professors Go to Tehran to Help Mad Mullahs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A couple of so-called American professors recently went to Tehran University to help the radical, anti-American, racist, Islamists propagandize about how wonderful the Mad Mullahs think the Occupy Wall Street “movement” here in America is. Wonderful, no? Anti-Americans Alex Vitae, professor at Brooklyn College, Heather Gautney, professor at Fordham University, John Hammond, professor at City […]

 

Wealthy Michigan Teacher Upset She Can’t Retire at 47

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s just unfair, isn’t it? I mean, if an $80,000-per-year, union protected, unfireable, teacher can’t retire at the extremely young age of 47 while the rest of us have to work into our 70s, well, what kind of world are we living in? That’s how teachers in Michigan feel, anyway. Just ask the haughty Terri […]

 

Governor Bobby Jindal delivers effective education reform in Louisiana

Posted on by Wintery Knight

Republican governor Bobby Jindal’s education reforms got national attention in: the Wall Street Journal. Excerpt: Governors of both parties have promoted education reform, but so far no one has delivered more than Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal. This week he’ll sign two bills that offer a national model for competition and parental choice. Louisiana’s new laws will essentially […]

 

Ooops: Chicago Trib Starts an Article on Education Misusing Words!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Clarence Page wrote an excellent article questioning whether or not our students are actually learning anything, most especially critical thinking skills, at our colleges and universities. Unfortunately, his very first sentence commits what I feel is both a major grammatical error and an unnecessary paean to PCism. First, let me temper this little quibble — […]

 

Democrats run California, so why are liberal students protesting?

Posted on by Wintery Knight

Victor Davis Hanson writes about it: National Review. Excerpt: Here in California, students just marched on Sacramento in outrage that state-subsidized tuition at the UC and CSU campuses keeps climbing. It is true that per-unit tuition costs are rising, despite even greater exploitation of poorly paid part-time teachers and graduate-student TAs. But the protests are sort […]

 

Hitler Youth Would Tell You That Your Moms Lunch Sux Too!

Posted on by Tiffiny Ruegner

My Dad is 1st generation American with his parents emigrating from Germany in the mid 50’s. Having grown up in a post WWII America where Germans were viewed suspiciously and as underclass citizens, his views have definitely been shaped from an interesting perspective. Dad and his siblings were always the “Axis” in Axis and Allies, […]

 

School official prevents four-year old from eating “unhealthy” lunch

Posted on by Wintery Knight

From: Fox North Carolina. Excerpt: A Hoke County preschooler was fed chicken nuggets for lunch because a state worker felt that her homemade lunch did not have enough nutritional value, according to a: report by the Carolina Journal. The West Hoke Elementary School student was in her More at Four classroom when a state employee who was […]

 

Bob Beckel, You Are Wrong

Posted on by Michael Fell

For those who’re unaware of the big dust up stirred by Fl Rep Allen West, here’re the remarks he made at a Lincoln Day Dinner in West Palm Beach Fl: “We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let […]

 

New York teacher worth $10 million is paid $100,000 a year to do nothing

Posted on by Wintery Knight

The New York Post reports on: the horror of teacher unions. Excerpt: In a defiant raspberry to the city Department of Education – and taxpayers – disgraced teacher Alan Rosenfeld, 66, won’t retire. Deemed a danger to kids, the typing teacher with a $10 million real estate portfolio hasn’t been allowed in a classroom for more […]

 

Wisconsin School Punishes Christian Kid for Being a… Christian Kid

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Superintendent Todd Carlson of Shawano High School in Shawano, Wisconsin is sorry a student observed his First Amendment rights and had his article published in the school newspaper that denounces homosexuals adopting children. And so Superintendent Carlson is making amends by punishing this Christian kid for being so darn Christian. Superintendent Carlson has also decided […]

 

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal unveils education reform plan

Posted on by Wintery Knight

Here are the details on: Bobby Jindal’s new education plan, from New Orleans Online Access. Excerpt: : Gov. Bobby Jindal: on Tuesday outlined a far-reaching set of proposals aimed at improving education in Louisiana, including a state-wide voucher program for low-income students, an expansion of autonomous charter schools and steps to link a teachers’ classroom performance to their […]

 

When The Government Can Sue The Government For More Taxpayer Money….

Posted on by William Teach

….we should turn the concern meter up to 11 (Fox News) School districts and their supporters around the US have launched a wave of lawsuits asking courts to order more spending on public education, contending they face new pressures as states cut billions of dollars of funding while adding more rigorous educational standards. About half […]

 

From a TV Show to A Fight for Campus Free Speech

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This video, which features an interview with legendary author Neil Gaiman (famed science fiction, fantasy and comic book writer), is a lighthearted look at how the University of Wisconsin-Stout ended up being forced to back down from its oppression of the free speech of one of its professors. Professor James Miller’s poster, one featuring a […]

 

New York Rabbi: A Tim Tebow Win Will Cause Christians to Burn Mosques, Bash Gays

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

**UPDATED** Hammerman removes paragraph from story In the category of bigotry and hatred spares no religion, we find such hatred hiding behind religion in one “Rabbi” Joshua Hammerman of New York City. Hammerman has indulged his inner Father-Coughlin-in-reverse by proclaiming that if Tim Tebow wins the Super Bowl, why, Christians will go on a rampage […]

 

ISU Lecturer: Patriotism Excludes People At Bottom, Troops Don’t Need Care Packages

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Thomas Walker, lecturer in the intensive English and orientation program at Iowa State University, is disgusted over all this fawning over “the troops.” And so, to vent his disgust, he took to the letters to the editor pages of The Iowa State Daily. What Walker gave us is yet another screed from an extremist, left-winger […]

 

Jose Antonio Vargas: Being an Illegal Alien Made Me… a Better Reporter?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Jose Antonio Vargas is the perfect example of media bias. He presents himself as both an activist for illegal immigrants and a “journalist.” He’s uniquely suited to this claim in today’s PC world, too, because he is himself an “undocumented American,” as he styles it. And in a new interview he also claims that being […]

 

Verdict for America: Solutions for our Most Pressing Problems

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Bill Ponath, an attorney and long-time pro tem judge, has written the definitive up-to-date and eye-opening book on the most critical issues facing the U.S. Written so anyone will understand, but not so basic as to bore the experienced politico, he analyzes eight issues thoroughly and recommends insightful common sense solutions. At one point the […]

 

Union Boss Gets Free State Money for Kid’s College Tuition

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You might recall in October when it was discovered that a few union bosses had paid off Illinois lawmakers to write a law that allowed union bosses to serve as a substitute teacher for one day in order to qualify them for state pensions for life. Well, apparently one of those union bosses also got […]

 

Defeat of OH Issue 2 Means $1,468 More Per Taxpayer By 2015

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Matt Mayer of the Buckeye Institute has done the math on what a defeat of Issue 2 will cost Ohio’s taxpayers. Turns out it will cost taxpayers $1,468 more a year by 2015. Mayer made a simple calculation by taking the $8 billion tax hike that a defeat of Issue 2 will usher in by […]