Posts tagged 'Education'

Obama’s Education Secretary Vows to Make Children “Good Environmental Citizens”

by SteveK @ Monday, October 4th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Environment, Government

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan promised that his department would use federally subsidized school programs (read: taxpayer dollars) beginning as early as kindergarten to teach children about climate change and prepare them “to contribute to the workforce through green jobs.”
“Right now, in the second decade of the 21st century, preparing our children to be good [...]

First-Year Males Must Attend Anti-Rape Presentation at Hamilton College

by SteveK @ Thursday, September 30th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education

Here’s another troubling development from the halls of academia.
Incoming freshmen men at Hamilton College must attend a mandatory presentation of “She Fears You,” a program where they will be pressed to acknowledge their personal complicity in a “rape culture” and to change their “rape-supportive” beliefs and attitudes. First-year men were informed via e-mail that attendance [...]

Friday Funny - Obama’s Three R’s of Education

by SteveK @ Friday, September 10th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Humor

Higher Education Next Bubble to Burst?

by SteveK @ Tuesday, September 7th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Economics, Education

We can only hope. But that would only represent half of what’s needed to restore some semblance of respectability to the education industry.
Roger Kimball ponders the outrageous cost of higher education these days, which seems to have an inverse relationship with the quality of education received. Four years at a top school will cost upwards [...]

Courses on Women Get Transfer Credit But Not Men’s Studies

by SteveK @ Monday, June 28th, 2010. Tags: , , , , ,
Filed under Education

“Literature By and About Men” is a course offered at Monterey Peninsula College by English professor David Clemens that focuses on “depictions of maleness, manhood, and masculinity in essays, films, short stories, and poetry either by men or about men.”
Aaron Graham, an English major, transferred to the University of Wyoming this year and requested transfer [...]

Ed Shultz Calls Glenn Beck “Dangerous” for Supporting Home-Schooling and Vouchers

by SteveK @ Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Government

Ed Shultz recently blasted Glenn Beck for suggesting we should abolish a public school system that engages in outright indoctrination. Beck is correct that the government monopoly on schools is (and has for some time) creating uninformed, juvenile citizens dependent on the Nanny State. But instead of offering any kind of logical counter argument, Shultz [...]

Schools Teaching Children To Bully Parents Over Environment

by SteveK @ Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Environment, Family, Government

From an article at the National Association of Scholars, children are turning into green zombies in order:
To prepare them for their role in unleashing eco-revolution, schools around the country are teaching students, beginning with the very young, to live a lifestyle centered on “sustainability.” …According to a poll by Habitat Heroes, 1 in 3 American [...]

Arizona: New Law to Stop Radical Ethnic Studies Classes

by SteveK @ Wednesday, May 19th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education

As much as the political left enjoys ripping the country apart by fostering racial (among other) grievances, there is more good news from Arizona. An AP article reports:
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill targeting a school district’s ethnic studies program, hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure.
Like [...]

What Young People Should Know About Socialism – Part 3

by SteveK @ Wednesday, April 7th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Government, History

Despite socialism’s long history of failure and oppression, there are those for whom it is still the only economic model from which to govern. To these people I ascribe the attribute of evil. They know full well the horrors it wrought over millions of human beings in the name of ’social justice’ and ‘equality’, yet [...]

What Young People Should Know About Socialism – Part 2

by SteveK @ Monday, March 22nd, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Government, History

The youth really are not to blame for being conditioned by their collectivist influences. They’ve been bombarded by teachers, movies, and television all promoting the idea that government knows best. If we all just put our faith and support behind a group of ‘enlightened’ government ‘experts’, a better life is just around the corner. But [...]

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