VIDEO – HOW OBAMA SEES AMERICA
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Education
BOOK REVIEW – CRISIS ON CAMPUS
AUGUST 31, 2010 Reading, Writing, Radical Change Abolish tenure, require more teaching, put star professors online. By NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY When Mark Taylor’s children were growing up, he made them write a three-page paper once a week each summer between sixth grade and college. “It could be on any subject they chose, and the only
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OBAMACARE MAY BE RESISTED ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
AUGUST 26, 2010 Big Foot on Campus Why colleges want a waiver from ObamaCare. In the movie “Animal House,” the hilariously loathsome Dean Wormer announces a pointless campus crackdown with the classic line, “The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.” Democrats seem to have had a
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BOOK REVIEW – ACTING WHITE: THE IRONIC LEGACY OF DESEGREGATION
BOOK REVIEW: Explaining the achievement gap Reviewed by Phil Brand- The Washington Times August 10, 2010 ACTING WHITE: THE IRONIC LEGACY OF DESEGREGATION By Stuart Buck Yale University Press, $27.50, 261 pages Generations of black Americans have viewed education as the best way to get ahead economically and to overcome racial discrimination. It is a
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DEMOCRATS TO THE RESCUE!
AUGUST 11, 2010 Stimulus Pushers EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The unions themselves could have prevented some layoffs had they been willing to adjust their rich benefits. In Milwaukee, for example, nearly all of the 500 teacher layoffs announced earlier this year could have been avoided if the unions had agreed to change health plans that
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UNC HEALTH PLAN COVERS ABORTION
Carolina Journal Exclusives UNC Health Plan Makes Students Pay for Abortion Coverage Students must pay for private coverage to opt out of abortion option By David N. Bass August 10, 2010 RALEIGH — A new policy that requires students enrolled in the University of North Carolina system to purchase health insurance also forces them to
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BOOK REVIEW – THE BATTLE BY ARTHUR BROOKS
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Free to Choose The 70-30 solution to the new culture war. BY Ryan T. Anderson August 2, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 43 The Battle How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future by Arthur C. Brooks Basic Books, 192 pp., $23.95 Arthur Brooks thinks
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WHITE CHRISTIANS UNDERREPRESENTED AT HARVARD
Bias and bigotry in academia Posted: July 19, 2010 By Pat Buchanan A decade ago, activist Ron Unz conducted a study of the ethnic and religious composition of the student body at Harvard. Blacks and Hispanics, Unz found, were then being admitted to his alma mater in numbers approaching their share of the population. And
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SWEDEN BANS HOME SCHOOLING
WASHINGTON TIMES Home-school ban in Sweden forces families to mull leaving By Michal Elseth – The Washington Times 3:58 p.m., Sunday, July 18, 2010 COURTESY OF THE LANTZ FAMILY Frode Lantz, who is almost 3, wears a shirt that says, “Classroom: The World Curriculum: Life.” A small change in Sweden‘s schooling law is about to
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TEACHERS’ UNIONS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Bright Lights, Bad Schoolhouses Teachers’ unions as big-screen villains. BY Sonny Bunch July 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 42 Facing thousands of worried members at the annual convention of the National Education Association on July 3, the head of the nation’s largest teachers’ union sounded a little whiny. “Today,
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