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Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts

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April 2, 2020 Why are so many journalists clamoring for a police state? fromSpiked:   The media pressure for a total lockdown has b...

Walter E Williams: Education Disaster

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It is not for too little money.       The 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress report, also known as The Nation's Report C...

VIDEO: John Stossel - Education Revolution

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Ann Marie Banfield: Federalism & Common Core Standards

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Will children save the Tenth Amendment?      Will federalism get its due in the next generation? Given what's been happening in New Ha...

The Academic Mob Silences Free Speech, Again

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A Washington Times editorial. Inconvenient truths not welcomed. Arithmetic continues to be a puzzle in certain precincts of academia. Sc...

VIDEO: John Stossel - Common Core

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Cynthia Walker: Common Core Is Un-Common & Not Core

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Making math hard.     I became a math teacher by a circuitous route.  My degree is in engineering.  I spent five and a half years refurb...

6 Shocking Studies That Prove Science Is Totally Broken

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by Andrew Marinus, Alan Boyle and Jon Pearl.      Even if you're not all that into science, it's still a big part of the news tha...

Climate Bullies, The Surrealists Of Science

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Science geeks stand up against global bullies.            Popular perceptions about climate appear surrealistic to me. I'm a seasoned ...

Lee Cary: The Black Swan In The Perfect Storm.

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The Black Swan is Arithmetic.        She is coming and she is already here. In Detroit, you see her in the debris of a once great American...

AP: U.S. Adults Are Dumber Than The Average Human

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Obama's reelection finally explained.      It’s long been known that America’s school kids haven’t measured well compared with interna...

VIDEO: John Stossel - Personal Austerity

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NY Parents Demand Schools Dumb Down

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Boycott planned against new math and English tests.    New York state education officials have been sounding the alarm for months: English...

Half The Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong

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by Ronald Bailey.      Dinosaurs were cold-blooded. Increased K-12 spending and lower pupil/teacher ratios boost public school student out...

Douglas French: Down And Out In California

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Golden State is fast losing its luster.      Gas in Vegas is a dollar cheaper a gallon than in the Golden State, or so a friend and recent...

NY Post: Reading, 'Riting And Race

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Is arithmetic racist?    Are English and science and art? These might seem like stupid questions, but — speaking of stupid — a federal jud...

"The New Economic Patriotism" Is Not A Jobs Plan

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by David Harsanyi.   Fear not; Barack Obama has an economic plan for America, and it's all in a glossy brochure, called "The Ne...

Eyder Peralta: 2012 SAT Reading Scores Lowest In 40 Years

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Based on 1.7 million test scores.  NPR's Claudio Sanchez brings us this bit of bad academic news: The class of 2012 scored the lowest ...

VIDEO: John Stossel - Better Ideas In Education

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Walter E Williams: Math Mattters

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Hard work and discipline pay dividends.    If one manages to graduate from high school without the rudiments of algebra, geometry and trigo...