Time after time, our feel-good, faddish government education system blithely abandons proven teaching practices for the “pedagogy du jour.” When fads fail – and they invariably do – educators “discover” what others have known all along: namely, that learning requires hard work, lots of it.
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Second Amendment Society
The members of the group will be taking donations in hopes to raise enough money to buy guns for underprivileged women in an attempt to end domestic violence.
Campus Backlog
In the he said/she said dialogue I recently entered into with American Federation of Teachers editor Beverly McKenna, I told her that I would post her response to my article in which I quoted her allegations that academia lacked bias. “Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you,” I wrote. “Come to think of it, if there is so little bias in academia, why am I backlogged?”
Fighting the NCAA
Thanks to an injunction issued by a state judge the University of North Dakota’s sports teams will get to keep using their nickname.
Good News For Public Schools
Liberty Counsel is working with Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF)
to clear the way for CEF’s Good News Clubs to use public school facilities
after school.
Veteran Comes to Bucknell
Colonel John Reitzell, a veteran of several
dozen counter-terrorism operations, will speak at Bucknell University on Wednesday,
November 15.
UWI Badgers Catholics
The Alliance Defense Fund’s Center for Academic Freedom filed a lawsuit today on behalf of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Roman Catholic Foundation against the regents of the University of Wisconsin, seeking an end to their latest attack on the free speech and freedom of association rights of religious groups on the system’s campuses
Civil Rights Win In Michigan
One thing that is being lost in the liberal media euphoria about the Democratic takeover of the House and Senate is the fact that most of the ballot initiatives or referendums that conservatives supported passed easily. One of the more contentious of these initiatives was Proposal 2 in Michigan which would amend the Michigan state constitution to prohibit all state agencies, including colleges from operating affirmative action programs that grant preferences based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin or gender.
Black Backlash
Blacks in inner cities who have had enough of public schools are discovering they have other ways of escaping than through the vouchers that mostly white public officials are trying so desperately to curtail or control.
Introduction to Media Bias
To a large degree, the slanting of the news is more a case of nurture than nature, and there is no better place to nurture it than in college journalism.
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School Bans “God” From Homework
Mackenzie Fraiser may be a sixth grader, but she knows more about her constitutional rights than Somerset Academy. The Las Vegas school took a big gamble when it told a 12-year-old girl to drop God…
Mitch Daniels Protects Free Speech at Purdue
As the College Fix said: “Former Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels, the onetime hope of conservative college students as a Republican presidential candidate (he never ran), has drawn raves for his various moves as president of…
Wales University votes to Remove Bibles from University Dorms
As the College Fix reported: “The Students’ Union at Aberystwyth University in Wales voted 300-175 – out of 10,000 students – to remove the “tradition” of Gideon Bibles in residence halls, the U.K.’s Christian Institute reports.”…
Fraudulent Gay Marriage Study Dupes the Media
The mainstream media have some egg on their face today after being forced to retract their reports on a gay-marriage study that was found to have been based on fraudulent research. The study, which appeared…
Professor, who helped create Common Core Curriculum, has Lesson that Supports Hamas
Not encouraging and another reason to not trust Common Core: “A “Whose Jerusalem?” workshop created by a Boston University professor that’s been taught in many high schools in recent years and was added to the Common Core-approved national…
Harvard’s Race Standards in Admission isn’t Fair
One good take by the Washington Examiner on the Harvard University admissions controversy, where Asian-Americans are suing the university for requiring better scores by Asian-American applicants compared to other races.
Gender Fluidity Making Its Way into School
So, no longer boys or girls but gender-fluid teaching in public schools, at least in Fairfax County schools in northern Virginia: “One of the nation’s largest public school systems is preparing to include gender identity…
The Living Wage Diaspora
Believe it or not there is actual evidence that illegal immigration does depress wages for the native-born but you are not likely to hear about it in the multitude of classes that touch on various…
Michigan Football Coach Jim Harbaugh holds Private Meeting with Offended Muslim Students over ‘American Sniper’
Do Muslim students not understand the film ‘American Sniper’ is about the Iraq War and not killing Muslims? Geez.
Skeptical Academics & Questionable Research
During the final decade of the Cold War, President Reagan urged Americans to “trust but verify” when engaged in arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union. When digesting academic research, it might be a good…
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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The Origins of Political Correctness
Emerson College: ‘Homosexual’ is Offensive to Gays so Stop Using It
Self-Identifying Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives as College Professors
Ayn Rand Reconsidered
Black Lives Matter Lists “White Supremacy, Patriarchy, Capitalism” Among Reasons for Orlando Attack
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