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BOOK REVIEW – SAYYID QUTB: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A RADICAL ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL

  Another book that is highly recommended is The Looming Tower:  Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright.    Nancy July 18, 2013 A Dangerous Mind Sayyid Qutb’s life and voluminous writings have inspired generations of terrorists, including al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. By ERIC TRAGER Mr. Trager is a fellow at the Washington Institute

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THE OBAMA SETBACK FOR MINORITY EDUCATION

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THE OBAMA SETBACK FOR MINORITY EDUCATION August 7, 2013 By PAUL E. PETERSON  Mr. Peterson, professor of government at Harvard University, directs its Program on Education Policy and Governance. He is also a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution Should federally mandated school accountability and testing requirements be abandoned? With

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MITCH DANIELS WAS RIGHT

  NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE July 29, 2013 Mitch Daniels Was Right By  The Editors Mitch Daniels, whom some Republicans would like to see president of something more than Purdue University, is under attack because as governor of Indiana he objected to the use of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States in public-school curricula. In recently published

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CONDEMNING THE COMMON CORE

  NEW MEDIA JOURNAL Condemning the Common Core Tabitha Korol July 22, 2013 As I began working through my second Common Core textbook, Contemporary Human Geography 2e, again authored by James M. Rubenstein, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and published by Pearson, I became stunningly aware of an agenda beyond our initial suspicions. First, that Common

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NORTH CAROLINA LT. GOV DAN FOREST QUESTIONS IMPLEMENTATION AND ADOPTION OF COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

  July 22, 2013 Everything You Wanted to Ask About Common Core, and More By Ann Kane North Carolina’s Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest has written a set of over 200 questions challenging the state superintendent of public schools to explain in detail the adoption and implementation of the Common Core State Standards — before the

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