Poor education is not stemming from racism. New York's schools are the most segregated in the nation, and the state needs remedies right away. That was Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch's message to New York's governor and Legislature. She said that minority children are disproportionately trapped in schools that lack teaching talent, ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: Scary School Stories
Poor education is not stemming from racism. New York's schools are the most segregated in the nation, and the state needs remedies right away. That was Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch's message to New York's governor and Legislature. She said that minority children are disproportionately trapped in schools that lack teaching talent, ... MOREResolve To Make 2015 The Year Of Repealing Bad Laws
by George Leef. A message to politicians. Look folks, I know that when you say you want to do what’s in the public interest, you mostly mean doing whatever helps you stay in office and calling it “the public interest.” Some of you, however, might actually want to do things that benefit the great mass of the people. This missive is directed ... MOREWalter E Williams: Liberals' Use Of Black People
Cover for the liberal agenda. Back in the day, when hunting was the major source of food, hunters often used stalking horses as a means of sneaking up on their quarry. They would walk on the opposite side of the horse until they were close enough to place a good shot on whatever they were hunting. A stalking horse not only concealed them but ... MOREThomas Sowell: 2014 - A Year Of Anniversaries
2014 has been a year of anniversaries. It was the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War — a war which many at the time saw as madness, and predicted that it would be the harbinger of a Second World War a generation later. 2014 was also the 70th anniversary of the fateful landing at Normandy that marked the beginning of ... MOREAnn Marie Banfield: Federalism & Common Core Standards
Will children save the Tenth Amendment? Will federalism get its due in the next generation? Given what's been happening in New Hampshire, one might think so. The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution expresses the principle of federalism: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor ... MOREWalter E Williams: Can Racial Discrimination Explain Much?
Rationalization is not reason. In the medical profession, there is the admonition primum non nocere, the Latin expression for "first, do no harm." In order not to do harm, at the minimum, requires accurate diagnostics. Suppose a patient presents with abdominal pains, and the physician diagnoses it as caused by the patient's ingrown ... MOREIf You Like Your Freedom, You Can Keep Your Freedom
Under Obama, U.S. freedom ranking slips below France. A new study shows shows that citizens of France now feel that they enjoy more personal freedom… Americans’ assessments of their personal freedom have significantly declined under President Obama, according to a new study from the Legatum Institute in London, and the ... MOREWalter E Williams: Educational Fraud
Perpetuating the damage. It would be unreasonable to expect a student with the reading,
writing and computing abilities of an eighth-grader to do well in
college. If such a student were admitted, his retention would require
that the college create dumbed-downed or phantom courses. The University
of North Carolina made this ... MORE'Acting White' Remains a Barrier for Black Education
by John McWhorter. Here we go
again. A black woman has articulately battled
the idea that using standard English is "acting white" in a
video that has gone viral of late, and
Jamelle Bouie at Slate has called her out for propagating a
myth that black students devalue school. In the eighties, (black)
anthropologist John Ogbu
with Signithia ... MOREVegas Schools Want To Teach Masturbation To Little Kids
by Jennifer Kastner. 5 and 6 year olds targeted. Monday's Clark County School District Board of Trustees meeting was
met with a packed room of angry parents who recently discovered possible
updates to the district's sex education curriculum, which could teach
kids as young as five-years-old about topics like masturbation. "We certainly ... MOREWalter E Williams: Teacher Indoctrination
Repeat the lie enough and they will believe. Students at several Jefferson County, Colorado, high schools walked out to protest the school board's recently proposed curriculum review committee that seeks to promote patriotism, respect for authority, free enterprise, plus the positive aspects of U.S. history. The teachers union, ... MORE
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