Education

The Demonization of “White” English Harms Black Students

Is Learning Standard “White” English Oppressive for Black Students?

Microsoft and Science Education

Microsoft and Science Education

Science education is a frequent topic in the news these days. Earlier this month, Microsoft announced a campaign to improve math and science education in the Seattle area. According to Brad Smith, a senior vice president and general counsel for Microsoft: "We're very...

High School Physics: Grade F

High School Physics: Grade F

Physics is the fundamental natural science. Its birth in the 17th century heralded man's coming of age as a rational being. The discovery of the basic laws of nature led to the industrial revolution and modern technology, demonstrating the enormous practical power of...

Children as Bombs

Children as Bombs

As if things weren't crazy enough already in the Middle East, here's the officially sanctioned message in sixth-grade Palestinian textbooks for 11- and 12-year-old kids: "The noble soul has two goals: death and the desire for it." The goal isn't to build magnificent...

Harvard’s “Tolerance” for Brutal Dictators

Harvard’s “Tolerance” for Brutal Dictators

For many years I have argued that America's intellectuals--those learned people with the greatest ability to understand our virtues and articulate a moral defense of our way of life--have long abandoned America. Another piece of evidence of this betrayal can be found...

Blame Hezbollah and Iran for Death of Qana Children

Blame Hezbollah and Iran for Death of Qana Children

Responsibility for the tragic deaths of scores of Lebanese women and children in Qana, Lebanon falls primarily on Hezbollah and its backers, Syria and Iran, not on Israel. To initiate a war against Israel and then use children as shields is so evil and disgusting that...

Seattle Public Schools Smear The Antidote for Racism

Seattle Public Schools Smear The Antidote for Racism

According to the Seattle Public Schools, if you're an individualist, you're a racist. On a web page that lists various forms and definitions of racism, the school system defines "Cultural Racism" as: Those aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value...

The Biggest Scandal in the Duke University Rape Case

The Biggest Scandal in the Duke University Rape Case

The worst thing said in the case involving rape charges against Duke University students was not said by either the prosecutor or the defense attorneys, or even by any of the accusers or the accused. It was said by a student at North Carolina Central University, a...

Whitewashing Academic Pathology

Whitewashing Academic Pathology

Jonathan Kay [National Post, "From The Academy, Portraits In Pathology", March 13] is shamefully generous toward leftist academics such as Ward Churchill and Noam Chomsky who venomously attack the West and Western values. Such creatures are not motivated by a "sense...

Reading vs. Ritalin

Reading vs. Ritalin

There's so much talk of "attention deficit disorder" in children today. The unquestioned, never disputed premise is that brain chemistry causes young people not to pay attention. Yet attention deficits were never such problems in earlier eras. What gives? A major...

Do We Really Care About Children?

Do We Really Care About Children?

I cringe with disgust when I hear politicians say, "We're doing it for the children." What's worse is so many Americans mindlessly fall hook, line and sinker for the hype. Judging by our actions, Americans could not care less for future generations, and future...

The War Against Excellence

The War Against Excellence

By attempting to make all students equal, middle-school progressives have given all students subject to their poisonous methods something in common — none can achieve their potential.

College Admissions Voodoo

College Admissions Voodoo

Every year about this time, high school students get letters of admission -- or rejection -- from colleges around the country. The saddest part of this process is not their rejections but the assumption by some students that they were rejected because they just didn't...

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