Showing posts with label illiteracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illiteracy. Show all posts

Bruce Deltrick Price: What Is Literacy In The 21st Century?

Another excuse for not teaching traditional skills.    A new development in education is deciding what "literacy" should be in the 21st century. With a swirl of technological breakthroughs all around us, elite educators are gaga at the plethora of excuses for pooh-poohing subjects routinely taught in the dark age known as the 20th century.   ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Gross Ignorance For The Underclass

The welfare state is an equal opportunity destroyer.   Anthony Daniels, who writes under the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist who tells of his experiences with his patients in "Life at the Bottom." It's an insightful book of essays about the self-destructive behavior and attitudes of the underclass. In one essay ... MORE

Detroit, The End Game of Liberalism

by Phil Boehmke. What do you get when a mighty industrial city is subject to six decades of one party rule and unchecked union greed? Answer: Detroit. On Election Day 2008, the voters of Detroit turned out in droves to vote for Barack Obama. Special assistance was provided for those who were unable to comprehend the electoral process or read the ballot.   ... MORE