Anyone who has still not yet understood the utter cynicism of the Obama administration in general, and Attorney General Eric Holder in particular, should look at the Justice Department’s latest interventions in education. If there is one thing that people all across the ideological spectrum should be able to agree on, it is that better… Read More »
Judge OKs pact ending Ark. desegregation payments
A federal judge said Monday that Arkansas can stop making payments in one of the nation’s most historic desegregation efforts but cautioned that work remains to ensure Little Rock-area students receive a proper education. The state has made more than $1 billion in payments to three Little Rock-area school districts since 1989 to aid desegregation… Read More »
Race-Baiting 101: The Common Core on Civil Rights
Terrence Moore, The progressive takeover of the public schools—dreamed up by John Dewey and put into practice over the course of at least the last sixty years—has produced nothing other than absurdity, superficiality, and political bias in the nation’s classrooms. So utterly impoverished has become the quality of schooling and the nation’s conversation about it,… Read More »
Ann Coulter: Could We Get Some Immigrants Who Can Take A Poll?
With Republicans tying themselves in knots over the Democrats’ destructive, but superficially appealing, demand that unemployment benefits be extended to two and a half years, I return to my suggestion that Republicans stop playing defense and go on offense. For every issue that MSNBC loves to prattle on about, gloating that it will cost Republicans… Read More »
NOAA forecasters estimate a 60% chance of strong geomagnetic storms
Orbital Sciences Corp. scrubbed today’s launch of their Antares supply rocket to the International Space Station in response to an ongoing solar radiation storm, described below. A launch at 1:10 p.m. EST Thursday is possible if the storm subsides. [more] STORMY SPACE WEATHER: Giant sunspot AR1944 is directly facing Earth and crackling with solar flares.… Read More »
Michelle Malkin: Common Core and the EduTech Abyss
The Common Core gold rush is on. Apple, Pearson, Google, Microsoft and Amplify are all cashing in on the federal standards/testing/textbook racket. But the EduTech boondoggle is no boon for students. It’s more squandered tax dollars down the public school drain. Even more worrisome: The stampede is widening a dangerous path toward invasive data mining.… Read More »
Common Core: The education standards program
John Stossel My TV producers asked our Facebook audience to vote for a topic they’d most like to hear discussed on my year-end show. The overwhelming winner, for some reason: the education standards program Common Core. Most Americans don’t even know what that is. But they should. It’s the government’s plan to try to bring… Read More »
Christie Gives Undocumented Students Access to In-State Tuition
Amanda Muñoz New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed landmark legislation at the end of December which allowed the state’s undocumented high school students access to in-state tuition at all public colleges and universities. Under the new legislation, students who graduated from a New Jersey high school where they had been in attendance for at least… Read More »
