Recent Articles

U.S. Tanzania AIDS Deal

, Jesse Masai

On September 2, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) announced a grant award to BIPAI of $22.5 million over five years to combat AIDS in Africa.

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California Math Problems

, Ian Randolph

California educrats have been fighting higher standards in math for a long time, including last year’s proposal to require all 8th graders to take algebra by 2011.

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No Child Left Inside

, EdWatch

HR 3036, the No Child Left Inside Act (chief author John Sarbanes, Democrat, MD), gives states and schools incentives (federal grants) to conduct “environmental education” programs within existing classes.

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Biden Fails Again

, Cliff Kincaid

U. S. Senator Joe Biden, D-Del., four decades after finishing his education, still fails on original scholarship, according to an actual scholar.

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Recent Articles

Remembering Josiah Henson

, Spencer Irvine

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth are well-known former slaves and abolitionists in pre-American Civil War history, but Josiah Henson has been seemingly forgotten by history. At the Josiah Henson Leadership Conference held in the Maryland…

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Republicans Increase Education Spending

, Spencer Irvine

Not that that’s a good thing. At the Cato Institute, several conservatives squared off to discuss education reform. David Cleary, Majority Staff Director for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee attached to the…

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Millennial Protesters Aren’t Well-Read

, Malcolm A. Kline

How do student protestors today differ from their predecessors back in the 1960s? The latter were more well-read. “This is a post-literacy generation,” Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) said recently at…

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