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Showing posts with label achievement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label achievement. Show all posts
Walter E Williams: Solutions To Black Education
Declining standards in public education. A fortnight ago, my column focused on how Philadelphia's schoolteachers have joined public-school teachers in cities such as Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, Columbus, New York and Washington in changing student scores on academic achievement tests. Teachers have held grade fixing parties, ... MOREJaana Woiceshyn: Envy Vs. Achievement
A battle of political philosophy. Envy is one of the most useless of feelings, both in our private and business lives. Yet many people experience it, at least from time to time. They envy their neighbor’s fancy car and exotic vacations, or wealth in general. They envy their friends’ educational achievements or the praise they receive ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Schoolteacher Cheating
Another way no child is left behind. Philadelphia's public school system has joined several other big-city school systems, such as those in Atlanta, Detroit and Washington, D.C., in widespread teacher-led cheating on standardized academic achievement tests. So far, the city has fired three school principals, and The Wall Street Journal ... MOREWalter E Williams: OK To Feel Sorry
The virtue of Dennis Rodman. At one time in our nation's history, blacks feeling sorry for whites was verboten. That was portrayed in Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." This is a novel published in 1960 — and later made into a movie — about Depression-era racial relations in the Deep South. The novel's ... MORE
Ronald Bailey: Kill Off Software Patents
When patents kill off innovation. The Supreme Court has a chance to give innovation a boost this
year by rolling back one of the country’s most economically stupid
policies. With the case of
Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International, the
justices will dive into the issue of whether companies should be
able to patent computer ... MORE
Monty Pelerin: Is The President Sane?
Obama's action go beyond mismanagement. Questions regarding President Obama’s competence have mostly been limited to management abilities, laziness, honesty and the like. Allison Martinez, however, opens an issue that many whisper about but dare not speak of publicly — his mental stability: Claims of grandeur that are ... MOREBarry Farber: More Fun Than A 1-Horse Open Slay
Obama's meltdown is quite delightful. If the president’s troubles make you want to sing, at least get the lyrics right. It’s not “We Shall Overcome.” It’s “They Shall Overreach”! “Don’t count chickens before they hatch!” is too stilted and cliché. I prefer the earthier Southern version, “Don’t count ‘taters afore grabbin’ time.” ... MOREThomas Sowell: The War Against Achievement
Replacing inspiration and motivation with entitlements. A friend recently sent me a link to an inspiring video about an upbeat young black man who was born without arms. It showed him going to work -- unlike the record number of people living on government payments for "disabilities" that are far less serious, if not fictitious. How is ... MOREThomas Sowell: Are We Serious About Education?
Look at what political incentives have produced. Two recent events — one on the east coast and one on the west coast — raise painful questions about whether we are really serious when we say that we want better education for minority children. One of these events was an announcement by Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., ... MORE
Education Spending Soars As Test Scores Stagnate
by Deroy Murdock. “If you think education is expensive, wait until you see how much ignorance costs in the 21st century,” Obama declared
July 24 at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. “If we don’t make this
investment, we’ll put our kids, our workers, and our country at a
competitive disadvantage for decades.” Obama’s latest demand ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Tragedy Of Isolation
Inflicting a handicap on their own people. In the 20th century, Western intellectuals' two most dominant explanations of disparities in economic, educational and other achievements were innate racial differences in ability (in the early decades) and racial discrimination (in the later decades). In neither era were the intelligentsia ... MOREBarry Farber: Is Detroit A Foreshadow Of America?
A wake up call or the beginning of the end? Be glad that symbolism is important. Be glad up to a point. Then quit! Symbolism can ennoble. Symbolism can also kill. Did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941 to destroy the “symbolism” of this new American world power? I don’t think so. I was the twerpiest of all possible pre-juvenile ... MOREWhat The Red Sox Know About Immigration Reform
by Ira Stoll. One of the things I have found reassuringly familiar as I move back to New England after an absence of nearly 20 years is the Red Sox baseball team, still battling for the top of the American League’s East division. It’s just the players who are different. The hottest Boston hitter at the moment has been Jose Iglesias, a 23-year-old infielder ... MOREStephanie Simon: Why Our Teachers Can't Teach
Long awaited report reveals an ugly truth. The U.S. teacher training system is
badly broken, turning out rookie educators who have little hands-on
experience running classrooms and are quickly overwhelmed by the job,
according to a report released Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality. The review found "an ... MOREThomas Sowell - Genes And Racism
Subtle factors. During decades of watching both collegiate and professional football, I have seen hundreds of touchdowns scored by black players — but not one extra point kicked by a black player. Is this because blacks are genetically incapable of kicking a football or because racists won't let blacks kick a football? Most of us would consider either ... MORESteve Tobak: The Real Impact Of Political Correctness
People are defined by their deeds, their actions. Not their words. But the way we communicate can be both reflective of our behavior and an influence on it going forward. What we call political correctness, for example, reflects societal behavior, how our culture has changed. It also influences societal behavior. In that sense, it reinforces the ... MOREBarry Farber: Pitcher's Mound Needed In The White House
Why Obama deserves a 1-way trip to the showers. Do “Big-Guys” ever “approach the mound” in politics? You know, like in baseball when the pitcher’s doing a miserable job and is about to be replaced? It’s reliably reported that beheadings used to be the “sport” that filled the seats in the stadium in Afghanistan. You need not go that ... MORE
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