Sesame Workshop, which reported revenue of $130,606,413, in 2009, says 35 percent comes from “corporate, foundation and government support.”
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The Bill Ayers Primer
Ayers and his allies used the “critical policy area” of education, and through four aims: “local school councils,” small schools, social justice teaching, and payment of reparations through education spending.
Searching for Budget Cuts
The Left frequently accuses the Right of pursuing phantoms. Nevertheless, the political Left has pursued a few elusive targets of its own, particularly on the academic side.
Title IX History Restored
In its paean to Title IX, the National School Boards Association misses some inconvenient information—like the history of women’s sports before the law was passed.
Pell Grants Not Helping Poor
Due in part to the current recession, this federal student aid program is one of the fastest-growing federal programs to date, but it has failed the poor students of America, the John William Pope Center for Higher Education found.
Once There Were Greenfields
The education system in the United States has been failing miserably, and while present school choice programs have been successful in providing only C grade reforms, the greenfield school model offers hope for A+ improvements.
Stimulus Money for Racial Studies
An important revelation from author Edward Klein is the name of the Obama ally who allegedly offered a $150,000 bribe to Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright to be quiet until after the 2008 election. Klein named him as Dr. Eric Whitaker, executive vice president and associate dean at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Academic Bureaucracy in Motion, Again
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) complains that administrators, rather than faculty, drive up the cost of college. In this case, the AAUP may have a point.
Med School’s Brave New World
The face of medical education is changing and patients may not like it one bit.
Anatomy of an Anachronism
According to Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, there in not enough conclusive evidence that the federal government plays a positive role in American education.