WSJ Sept. 19, 2017 7:13 p.m. ET ‘Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government,” wrote Ben Franklin. “When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved.” Imagine what Franklin, James Madison and the other Founders would make of a new Brookings Institution survey showing that American college students have no clue what... Read more
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
James Madison Weeps
September 27 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Education, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The Left, US ConstitutionApprenticeships!
June 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Education, Work worldSomething Germany has known for years. ========== WSJ 6/19/2017 One restraint on economic growth is the increasing U.S. labor shortage, especially for jobs that require technical skills. Meanwhile, many college grads are underemployed and burdened by student debt. The Trump Administration is trying to address both problems by rethinking the government’s educational priorities. President Trump directed Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta last week to... Read more
Who’s Afraid of Student Journalists?
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correctThis story first broke by the New York Times? =================== By John J. Miller WSJ 2/9/2017 Riots last week at the University of California, Berkeley stopped Milo Yiannopoulos, a rightwing provocateur who contributes to Breitbart News, from speaking on campus. The violence forced the cancellation of his event and inflicted $100,000 in damage to school property, according to administrators. Then it spread to New... Read more
The DeVos Apocalypse
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Education, Henninger, The LeftA bit more on this important event. It will be interesting to see the landscape 4 years hence. ================= WSJ 2/9/2017 By Daniel Henninger The extraordinary battle over Betsy De Vos’s nomination to be secretary of education is the defining event of the Trump presidency’s early days. As presented, the DeVos confirmation appeared to be a standard partisan conflict between Democrats... Read more
The Real Democratic Party
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Education, Party Politics, The Left, Unions===== WSJ 2/8/2017 The Senate made history Tuesday when Mike Pence became the first Vice President to cast the deciding vote for a cabinet nominee. The nominee is now Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. The vote came after an allnight Senate debate in a futile effort by Democrats to turn the third Republican vote they needed to scuttle the nomination on claims that... Read more
Time to Reform the Kangaroo Courts on Campus
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Politically correct, The LeftRight 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
