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GLOBAL WARMING AND OUR SCHOOLS

PULLMANN: Teaching global warming in kindergarten Public schools shouldn’t be promoting political propaganda By Joy Pullmann-  Joy Pullmann is managing editor of School Reform News and a research fellow at the Heartland Institu The Washington Times Tuesday, June 5, 2012 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  Fifth-graders are to examine Earth’s temperature increases and believe they destroy […]

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THE PLIGHT OF THE NEWLY GRADUATED AND HEAVILY INDEBTED YOUNG AMERICANS

June 15, 2012 The new American Helots By Victor Davis Hanson 6/15/2012 Ancient Sparta turned its conquered neighbors into indentured serfs — half free, half slave. The resulting Helot underclass produced the food of the Spartan state, freeing Sparta’s elite males to train for war and the duties of citizenship. Over the last few decades,

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WORLD HISTORY – WHAT THEY’RE TEACHING KIDS

The Patriot Post • http://patriotpost.us AP Textbook Angst By Mona Charen May 30, 2012 After several cries of pain from my 16-year-old son, I finally got around to reading his Advanced Placement world history textbook. Not a way to spend a placid weekend. Paging through “World Civilizations: The Global Experience” by Peter N. Stearns et

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THE AGE OF ANXIETY – ROMNEY’S CHALLENGE IS TO ADDRESS THE DEEP UNEASINESS IN AMERICA

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Our Age of Anxiety Romney’s challenge is to address the deep uneasiness in America and point the way to a comeback. Yuval Levin   Yuval Levin is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, Hertog fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and editor of National Affairs. May 28,

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WHY COLLEGES DON’T TEACH THE FEDERALIST PAPERS

May 6, 2012, Peter Berkowitz: Why Colleges Don’t Teach the Federalist Papers At America’s top schools, graduates leave without reading our most basic writings on the purpose of constitutional self-government. By PETER BERKOWITZ It would be difficult to overstate the significance of The Federalist for understanding the principles of American government and the challenges that

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BOBBY JINDAL’S MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN LOUISIANA EDUCATION

April 15, 2012, 5:59 p.m. ET Reform School on the Bayou Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s choice and tenure changes could be a national milestone. Governors of both parties have promoted education reform, but so far no one has delivered more than Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal. This week he’ll sign two bills that offer a national model

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VIDEO – IF I WANTED AMERICA TO FAIL

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CAPTAIN MICHIO AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW

Updated March 9, 2012, 7:17 p.m. ET Humans are born with the curiosity of scientists but switch to investment banking. By BRIAN BOLDUC New York By 2020, the word “computer” will have vanished from the English language, physicist Michio Kaku predicts. Every 18 months, computer power doubles, he notes, so in eight years, a microchip

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