Archive for the 'Education and Academia' Category

D’Souza Smackdown

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

That cracking sound you hear is the foundation of liberal academia at Boston College beginning to crumble under the weight of truth spoken by Dinesh D’Souza.

I’d love to see the video of D’Souza taking apart the “star professor” and head of the religion center at BC, Alan Wolfe. Then we could see for ourselves […]

No Government Schools?

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Here are some interesting perspectives:

A World Without Public Schools: If the consensus underlying American public education has disappeared, why shouldn’t the institution? The Weekly Standard — David Geletmer argues for what critics of school choice have long accused proponents of secretly desiring.

Why not liberate all the vast resources we spend on […]

I guess they really aren’t there to socialize

Friday, January 26th, 2007

I find this article interesting in a couple of different ways. A private school in Rhode Island has decided that talking will not be allowed in the cafeteria at lunchtime. Their reasoning is that there have been recent choking incidents and teachers cannot hear a child in distress if the lunchroom is loud.

First, […]

Ninth Circuit: Students May Not Disagree with Gay-Rights Agenda

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

by OOTM

The Ninth Ciruit, the court responsible for criminalizing would-be-pledgers-of-allegiance in elementary schools across the Western United States, recently held that school systems may lawfully engage in viewpoint discrimination (PDF).

I waited to post this, because I was hoping to come across a newpaper article (for linking purposes) that clearly stated the facts in a complete […]

Don’t Mind the Facts

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Surely, you’ve heard someone say, “Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good argument.” Regardless of who said it to you before, Thomas Sowell’s latest column probably says it better, and he lays out the consequences rather well:

People who have made up their minds and don’t want to be confused by […]