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Friday, March 12, 2010

Educational Incest

Inbreeding leads to grotesque defects.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 03/12 at 09:34 PM
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Federal Aid To Socialist Education?

It’s not clear whether Obama’s Organizing for America (OFA) is promoting indoctrination of public school students with the ideology of Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers, or whether some teachers are free-lancing with OFA indoctrination as class work.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/27 at 12:34 AM
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

What Works

Vouchers produce better educational results, but Democrat/Socialists are concerned only with what works for teachers’ unions, one of their greatest sources of campaign cash and free labor.  Read Milwaukee’s Voucher Graduates.

For readers who cannot access this Wall Street Journal editorial, see below for the full text.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/11 at 11:55 AM
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Believe It If You Actually See it

New York Times columnist David Brooks lauds the Obama administration for standing up to teachers’ unions for the purpose of improving education results.

His praise may be premature.  The administration is only in the discussion stages with teachers’ unions.  In any case, you can be sure that Federal funding of education will remain a lever to compel indoctrination of students with moral relativism and the socialist version of history.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 10/23 at 11:36 PM
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Sunday, August 02, 2009

Henry Lewis Gates and the Debasement of American Education

More consequential than Professor Gates’s racist rant against a Cambridge police officer is the core rot in American education introduced by his academic specialty, black studies, which is an excrescence of 1960s and 1970s student radicalism.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 08/02 at 10:06 PM
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Struggle For The Hearts and Minds

If liberal-progressives keep the upper hand in establishing educational curriculum and textbook standards, the United States is doomed to loss of political liberties to the secular statism that characterizes much of Continental Europe.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 07/14 at 12:20 AM
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Monday, June 01, 2009

Harvard vs. Hillsdale

Harvard loses.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 06/01 at 10:59 PM
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Subsidizing the Teachers Unions

Why does president-elect Obama propose to appropriate Federal funds to educate an additional 100,000 scientists and engineers?  A pay-off to the teachers’ unions that helped to elect him?

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 11/11 at 01:56 AM
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Gnostic Education

Why are today’s students often taught to hate the United States?

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 11/04 at 11:47 PM
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Is a College Degree Necessary?

Charles Murray advances a provocative idea.

If his suggestion were followed, fewer young people would fall into the clutches of liberal-progressive professors and fewer would be converted to the secular religion of socialism.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 08/13 at 04:14 PM
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