Right after the VA, Trump might give some attention to cleaning up the DOE. ========== WSJ 12/28/2016 By Robert Shibley The University of Minnesota football team’s dramatic walkout in protest of what they saw as unfair treatment of 10 fellow players in a campus sexual-assault investigation came to an end on Dec. 17. But it made national headlines for imperiling the team’s trip... Read more
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Time to Reform the Kangaroo Courts on Campus
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Politically correct, The LeftObama’s Giant Student-Loan Con
December 5 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Education, Interesting, ObamaOne of the biggest scams in my memory.. ====== Democrats devised the government takeover of student loans as an entitlement that might never be repaid, though they sold it as a money saver. New evidence of this giant con arrives courtesy of a report this week by the Government Accountability Office that estimates the taxpayer losses at $108 billion and counting. To help... Read more
Safeguarding Knowledge
December 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education==== Roger Scruton, writing in “What’s the Point of Education?”—a Nov. 3 article for the British magazine, the Spectator: Why does the state take an interest in education? The prevailing view . . . has been that the state takes an interest in education because it is the right of every child to receive it. . . . The assumption has been,... Read more
The NAACP’s Disgrace
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Party Politics, The LeftIt boggles my mind.. ========= The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has a storied history, but many organizations outlive their moral purpose and it’s now clear this one has. The civil-rights outfit has come down firmly on the side of trapping poor minority children in education failure factories. On Saturday the NAACP’s national board voted to ratify a resolution... Read more
Massachusetts Charter Showdown
September 3 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Education, Ruling ClassThe intensity of opposition to Charter schools, even public ones, is nothing short of amazing. Why, might one ask, is this so? ========= WSJ 9/1/2016 Republican Governors who face Democratic legislatures have a tough slog, but one path to political leverage is a referendum at the ballot box. Charlie Baker is using that route in November to override a Massachusetts House that is... Read more
