Posts tagged 'schools'

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

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 [...]

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

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

Higher Education Next Bubble to Burst?

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 @ 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 @ 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

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 @ 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.
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What Young People Should Know About Socialism – Part 2

by @ 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 [...]

Understanding Radical Islam – Part 3

In this last installment we get to the schools, and thus the heart of the matter as to why so many Americans are unfamiliar with the information provided in parts 1 and 2. The education system in this country is to blame for whitewashing Islam with political correctness in order to fit the overwhelmingly liberal [...]

Understanding Radical Islam – Part 2

In part two, we delve further into why some Muslims become suicide bombers or ‘martyrs’. An article titled Jihad, Martyrdom, and the Torments of the Grave, by Raymond Ibrahim, explains some of the more obscure (in the West) but powerful motivations for Islamists. Original posted HERE.
Why do some Muslims become suicide bombers or “martyrs”? In [...]

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