“The Undead are everywhere: on movie and television screens, in books, even in the academy.” –Princeton catalogue
Monthly Archives For November 2013
Assessing America @ Columbia
A casual read through Columbia University’s catalogue will give a fairly clear idea of the esteem America is held in on that Ivy League campus, which is to say, not very much.
White House Early Indoctrination
Cecilia Munoz, the White House Domestic Policy Council Director, visited the National Journal and Bill and Melinda Gates-sponsored event on education, “The Next America” to give her take on education.
Education Summit Blasts Republicans
At a National Journal and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-sponsored event in a D.C. Grand Hyatt Hotel conference room, New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez used the event to slam the Republicans.
Enigma of Common Core
Two online courses on teaching the Common Core education initiative of the Obama Administration that are just about as vague as the program.
Remembering the Gettysburg Address
Martin Luther King, Jr. modeled his famous “I Have a Dream” speech after President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Allen C. Guelzo, Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College, said at the Heritage Foundation…
Common Core Defenders
Their tales of success may leave parents grateful that they don’t have children who are students in those districts.
Uncommon Catholic Core
The Obama Administration’s Common Core education initiative may be problematic for private Catholic schools as well as the public ones the program is designed for.
Common Core in Denial
Student Achievement Partners co-founder Jason Zimba sat down the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Executive Vice President Michael Petrilli recently to promote Common Core, the Obama Administration’s higher education initiative.
Fidel, we hardly knew ye’
Humberto Fontova’s book, The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro, goes a long way towards filling in the gaps in media coverage of that island dictatorship.