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A Letter from a Child
by Thomas Sowell
(October 5, 2009)
While our children are frittering away time on trivia, other children in other countries are acquiring the skills in math, science or other fields that will allow them to take the jobs our children will meed when they grow up.
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Multiculturalism is No Boon to Education, But an Agent of Anti-Western Ideology
by Elan Journo
(September 17, 2009)
Back to school nowadays means back to classrooms, lessons and textbooks permeated by multiculturalism and its championing of "diversity." Many parents and teachers regard multiculturalism as an indispensable educational supplement, a salutary influence that "enriches" the curriculum. But is it?
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Obama's Betrayal of Education
by Walter Williams
(September 16, 2009)
Instead of President Obama addressing school students across the nation, he might have accomplished more by focusing his attention on the educational rot in schools in the nation's capital.
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Barack Obama: Seducer of the Young
by Walter Williams
(September 8, 2009)
The primary goal of health care "reform" is the enactment of the legal basis for totalitarianism. So many of the provisions of the health care bill, to a close reading, set a precedent for government control of every single basis of our lives -- health care or not.
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Barack Obama: Heil Headmaster!
by Edward Cline
(September 5, 2009)
Someone else may have said it first: When the adults won’t listen, go after the kids.
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College Education: To Much of a "Good Thing"?
by Thomas Sowell
(June 28, 2009)
Given the composition of the population as it is-- which is always what we have to start with-- what evidence is there that too few or too many are going to college?
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Tell Me Everything You Know
by Lisa VanDamme
(June 25, 2009)
I have invented a new educational game. I call it "Tell Me Everything You Know." Here is how the game works in my grammar class...
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Motivation and Education
by Lisa VanDamme
(June 18, 2009)
The basic principles of motivation are really quite simple: the teacher must identify the value of his course, design the curriculum accordingly, and name the value explicitly. If he does this properly, he can dispose of the pizzas, gold stars, and rulers, and enjoy the radiantly eager response of children who really grasp what they are learning and why.
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Dumbest Generation Getting Dumber
by Walter Williams
(June 3, 2009)
Under today's education system the longer kids are in school and the more money we spend on them, the further behind they get.
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Physics By Induction: The Genius of Learning Science The Proper Way
by Lisa VanDamme
(April 7, 2009)
Physics classes generally suffer from a serious methodological problem.
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