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...
Education
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...
“The Unbearable Whiteness of Barbie” and Other College Stupidity
Colleges and universities will start their fall semester soon. You might be interested in what parents’ and taxpayers’ money is going for at far too many “institutions of higher learning.” At Occidental College in Los Angeles, a mandatory...
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
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...
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...
Justice Delayed for the Lacrosse Players in the Duke University Rape Case
If there is a smoking gun in the Duke University rape case, it is not about the stripper who made the charges or the lacrosse players who have been accused. The smoking gun is the decision of District Attorney Michael Nifong to postpone a trial until the spring of...
Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children
P.E.T. will be described in terms familiar to everyone, not in technical jargon. Some parents may find themselves initially disagreeing with some of these concepts, but very few will find themselves not understanding them. Since readers will not be able to express...
Censoring the Danish Cartoons: NYU Chooses Appeasement Over Rights
If NYU seriously believed that there were security risks involved, they ought to have provided sufficient security.
Sudden Jihad Syndrome at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill
“Individual Islamists may appear law-abiding and reasonable, but they are part of a totalitarian movement, and as such, all must be considered potential killers.” I wrote those words days after September 11, 2001, and have been criticized for them ever...
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...
The Jay Bennish ‘Diatribe as Geography’
Bennish is free to let loose his diatribes on his own time, but he has no right to demand a captive audience of high-school students.
Another Academic Casuality: Harvard University Ex-President Lawrence Summers
The resignation of Lawrence Summers as president of Harvard University tells us a lot about what is wrong with academia today. When he took office in 2001, Summers seemed like an ideal president of Harvard. He had had a distinguished career in and out of the academic...
Public Schools are Not Accountable to Parents
It’s time to start realizing the full potential of our greatest natural resource by making schools accountable to parents.
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...
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...
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.
Bright Children: Stepchildren of the American Education System
Bright children and their parents have lost a much-needed friend with the recent death of Professor Julian Stanley of Johns Hopkins University. For decades he not only researched and ran programs for intellectually gifted students, he became their leading advocate in...
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...
The Phonics vs. “Whole Language” Controversy
The controversy over how to teach reading is not a narrow, technical dispute. It is a broad, philosophic disagreement, with crucial educational implications.
Children Having Children: A “Badge of Honor”?
A few years ago, I visited a friend living in Cleveland ‘s inner city. As we sat on my friend’s porch, not one, but two teenage girls — visibly pregnant — walked by. My friend cheerfully called out their names. They smiled and waved back as...
Higher Education in Decline, Part 2
The nation’s primary and secondary education is a national disgrace; will we allow our undergraduate education to become so as well?
School Violence Toleration
I’m wondering just when parents, especially poor minorities, will refuse to tolerate day-to-day school conditions that most parents wouldn’t dream of tolerating. Lisa Snell, director of the Education and Child Welfare Program at the Los Angles-based Reason...
Art Finally Comes to George Mason University
Controversial art historian Lee Sandstead will speak this Monday evening at the Johnson Center on something this campus hasn’t seen or heard about in decades–art. What? How can I say this? Isn’t there art everywhere at Mason? Well, yes, there is a...
Choosing a College
When a student at New York University committed suicide recently, it was the 6th suicide at that same institution this year. The suicide of someone in the prime of life, and getting an education that promises a bright future, should be much rarer than it is. But NYU...
Vouchers are Socialism
Vouchers effectively turn private schools into public schools.
Tax Credits–and Not Vouchers–for Education
The New York Sun has wisely opposed campaign finance regulations as violating the freedom of speech. The Sun has also argued that New York City’s public campaign financing system deserves to be scrapped. Wasn’t it Thomas Jefferson who wrote “that to...
The Purpose of Speech Codes in Schools and Colleges
With all the noise being made — from traffic noise to Al Gore’s ranting — you might never suspect that there was a National Day of Silence. What you might also not suspect is that this day is observed in schools and colleges across the country, where...
Frequently Asked Questions about Education in America
1. How many students are enrolled in public and private schools in the United States? According to U.S. Department of Education estimates, there are 47.6 million students in public schools and 5.9 million in private schools.[1] As many as 2 million children are...
Before You Donate to Support a College…
In far too many instances, what passes as college life and education today is no less than shameful. Under the name of diversity and political correctness, billions of taxpayer dollars and donor contributions are used to promote what might be charitably called...
Education and Capitalism: How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics Can Improve America’s Schools
Although government schools maintain a monopoly on public funds, they’ve failed miserably by almost every conceivable benchmark.
PC Ethics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The following is a letter written in response to some accusations made by an unnamed professor against student Alexander Marriott as detailed in A Victory Against Political Correctness: Rebel Yell Apologizes to Alexander Marriott. Now that I am back on the job I have...
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