It 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
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
The NAACP’s Disgrace
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Party Politics, The LeftMassachusetts 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
PC at Marquette
April 8 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftIf there is a better term I can use, please, help me out. ====== WSJ 4/8/2016 Blogging can be dangerous to your livelihood— or at least it can at Marquette University, where a professor may lose his job for expressing the wrong political views. In November 2014 an undergraduate approached philosophy instructor and PhD candidate Cheryl Abbate, after a class on John Rawls’... Read more
Summer Reading List
May 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Personal DevelopmentBy Gilbert T. Sewall May 29, 2015 6:30 p.m. ET Parents often think fate has singled their children out for poorly chosen school reading assignments. It hasn’t. A distressed father recently told me about seeing his high-school-age daughter’s summer reading list and realizing that it was devoted exclusively to contemporary writers such as David Eggers, Malcolm Gladwell and Barbara Ehrenreich.... Read more
Shutting Bad Schools, Helping Students
April 29 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Party Politics, The LeftSure, not politically correct, but perhaps correct, nonetheless. ======== By Michael J. Petrilli And Aaron Churchill April 27, 2015 7:21 p.m. ET As difficult and disliked as school closures can be, a new study being released Tuesday by the Fordham Institute indicates that the students usually benefit. When we looked at the impact of closures on their achievement, we found that, on average,... Read more
The Study of Military History
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Military, Western CivilizationThe topic as been purged from US university curricula at our peril. ============ From remarks by Lewis E. Lehrmanat the New-York Historical Society on March 23, when the $50,000 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History was awarded to Alexander Watson’s “Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I” (Basic Books, 2014): The study of military history has in fact been purged from... Read more
