Imparting values along with knowledge. Many public primary and secondary schools are dangerous places. The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics show that in 2012, there were about 749,200 violent assaults on students. In the 2011-12 academic ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: Why Home Schooling?
Imparting values along with knowledge. Many public primary and secondary schools are dangerous places. The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics show that in 2012, there were about 749,200 violent assaults on students. In the 2011-12 academic ... MORECommon Core: Who's Watching the Kids?
by Mary Anne Marcella and Cort Wrotnowski. Common Core is about more than just a shift in educational standards. The architects of Common Core have always planned to integrate computer technology with Common Core standards under the guise of “closing the digital divide” and “preparing our children for the 21st-century workplace.” They ... MOREWalter E Williams: Historical Ignorance II - The Real Lincoln
We call the war of 1861 the Civil War. But is that right? A civil war
is a struggle between two or more entities trying to take over the
central government. Confederate President Jefferson Davis no more sought
to take over Washington, D.C., than George Washington sought to take
over London in 1776. Both wars, those of 1776 and 1861, ... MOREHow Student Loans Create Demand For Useless Degrees
by Josh Grossman. Last week, former Secretary of Education and US Senator Lamar Alexander wrote in the Wall Street Journal
that a college degree is both affordable and an excellent investment.
He repeated the usual talking point about how a college degree increases
lifetime earnings by a million dollars, “on average.” That part about
averages is ... MOREThomas Sowell: Looking Back
Discovering what is important. After my 85th birthday last week, I looked back over my life and was surprised to discover in how many different ways I had been lucky, in addition to some other ways in which I was unlucky. Among the things I did not know at the time was that I was adopted as an infant into a family with four adults, in which I was ... MORETeenagers Are Losing Confidence In The American Dream
by Joe Pinsker. As government grows, the private economy shrinks. In 1996, when asked a series of questions about the brightness of her future, one high-school senior in an unnamed Midwestern state said, “There’s been extraordinary examples of people that have been poor and stuff that have risen to the top just from their personal hard work … not ... MOREWalter E Williams: Improving Black Education
Use free market competition. Last summer's Ferguson, Missouri, disturbances revealed that while blacks were 67 percent of its population, only three members of its 53-officer police force were black. Some might conclude that such a statistic is evidence of hiring discrimination. That's a possibility, but we might ask what percentage of blacks met ... MOREJohn Stossel's Advice On College: Don't Go
It's graduation time! Have we learned much? No. College has become a scam. Some students benefit: those with full scholarships and/or rich parents so they don't go deep into debt, those who love learning for its own sake and land jobs in academia and those who get jobs that require a college credential. But that's not most students. Politicians such ... MOREThomas Sowell: Graduation Gifts
Education might be nice. This is the season of college graduations, and many people may be wondering what kinds of gifts would be most appropriate for young people leaving the world of academia and heading out to face the challenges and opportunities of adulthood in the real world. Given the narrow range of left to far left views of the ... MOREThis Is Why So Many People Are Homeschooling!
A letter from the school: Dear Mr and Mrs. Rossi, I understand that your family recently took a family vacation. I want you to be aware that the Abington School District does not recognize family trips as an excused absence, regardless of the activities involved in the trip. The school district is not in the position of overseeing family vacations or ... MORECommon Core Resistance Gains Steam In New York
When the state won't act, individuals must. The resistance to one-size-fits-all education is gaining steam. This is evidenced by the latest display of power from concerned parents who are saying no to the Common Core State Standards while the New York legislature fails to do so. An excess of 175,000 parents in the state of New York alone ... MORETed Cruz And Rand Paul Team Up To Cut Enviro Funding
by Ben Geman. Two 2016 hopefuls working together. Republican Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are rivals for their party's
White House nomination, but they're finding some common ground in the
Senate's budget fight. On
Wednesday the two 2016 hopefuls jointly filed an amendment to the budget
plan that would cut new budget ... MORE
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