American Spectator
March 2, 2009 / 3:19 pm • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierKen Blackwell: Not Making The Grade
More on no-standard admittance to colleges
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The Greater Good Means Too Bad For The Children
For the greater good.....
Podcast: Andrew Malcolm and I Talk About Meg Whitman, More Chicago Politics and Health Care
Andrew and Melissa talk about the "belly of the beast" Chicago, what's up with Meg Whitman, and much more.
Podcast: Not Hot For Teacher With Jimmie Bise And Tabitha Hale
Jimmie Bise of Sundries Shack and Tabitha Hale of Pink Elephant Pundit join me to discuss the spork incident which morphed into discussing socialism and central educational planning which morphed into talking the Nobel Peace prize. Believe it or not, it all relates.
Reforming A Spork-Wielding Six Year Old
Think the public schools are just fine? I beg to differ. Have you heard about this via Boing Boing:
Podcast: The President, Little People, The Press, Levi's
PalinPenisJohnson
Stephen Green joins me to discuss the Obama-Education talk controversy. He takes on AllahPundit with wit and style. [I would have asked AllahPundit to be on the show had I thought the man would come out of hiding.] We talk about Obama's cult of personality. We also discuss The Moment President Obama's presidency went off the rails.
About Obama's September 8th Ground Breaking Speech....To The Children
Some thoughts on President Obama's teachable moment [more at Bookworm and Michelle Malkin]:
Suing Colleges Because Job Prospects Stink
I think this is a fabulous idea, actually. This woman is upset because her $70K education is netting her a big, fat, donut. So, sue 'em!
Aggressive Schooling
There have been all sorts of articles written about Helicopter Parents and now, there's a new trend called "slow parenting". Slow parenting is just as the name implies--yank your kids out of activities and slow down. There is competing evidence, like came from Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers that kids do better with more activities and need at least ten years of consistent, hard work to achieve mastery. And then, there was his extolling of the schools that go year around and for eight hours a d…
"We Need To Redefine Merit"...Because Standardized Testing Is Racist
I watched this video yesterday and got sick to my stomach. You can watch the whole thing, too, to get an idea of what is being taught at say, Harvard University. Professor Lani Guinier, at the State of the Black Union jams so many false premises and wrong-headed thinking in 10 minutes that it's impressive. Here are a couple highlights:
Predatory Women Teachers
So, last week Drudge puts up a link to a story about two different women teachers having sex with a 13 year old boy student unbeknown to one another. Nice. Why can't crazy women just be strippers and prostitutes? Now, they're foisting their antisocial behavior on children.
