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A Columbia U. alum sends along info about a Van Jones performance at the business school next week. If you are a current student or alum and can get to the event, be sure to RSVP and let us know what he’s up to:
The Green Collar Economy: /A discussion with Van Jones, President Obama’s former [...]

Photoshop: Leo Alberti
The Census educrats are urging your schools to turn your kids into government cheerleaders — literally.
Johnny may not be able to add, but he’ll be able to root loudly for his right to federal funding based on the most inflated head-count numbers possible. Yay!

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Jimme Bise tweets: “Two! Four! Six! Eight! How Do [...]

My column looks at the bloated Census p.r. and education budget. GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson is asking questions. As well he should. History shows that the more the Census spends on advertising, the lower the response rate is. Best watchdog site for all the latest Census shenanigans: My Two Census.
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The Super-Sized Census Boondoggle
by Michelle Malkin
Creators [...]

File under: Can you imagine if a Republican Education Secretary said this?
Via the Washington Post, Education Secretary Arne Duncan makes a clumsy attempt at pointing out that there was an educational silver lining to the catastrophic hurricane that devastated New Orleans.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan called Hurricane Katrina “the best thing that happened to the education [...]

Tinseltown’s favorite Marxist historian passed away after a heart attack yesterday while traveling in Santa Monica, according to the Boston Globe:
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as “A People’s History of the United States,” inspired young and [...]

Big Labor poured millions of rank-and-file members’ dues into a tax hike campaign in Oregon. It worked. The “wealthy” and the “evil corporations” will now be forced to bail out government schools and social services. Look for affected business owners to start Going Galt en masse.
The Oregonian reports on the gloating by public employee union [...]

From the land of Barack and Michelle and Rahm and Valerie and David and David and Arne and Ray and Desiree, here’s the latest corruption scandal rocking the Windy City. They did it for the children, no doubt:
The credit cards of 89 Chicago Board of Education employees have been yanked in the midst of an [...]

“Ethno-mathematics.”

Berkeley’s “progressive” educrats give us another perfect illustration of Diversity Uber Alles run amok. Because the government schools have failed to close the “racial achievement gap,” they’ve proposed cutting science labs and teaching staff from the high school curriculum because those resources benefit too many white students.
Via the East Bay Express (hat tip: Adam Baldwin):
Berkeley [...]

I’ve noted the Obama administration’s use of children as Census p.r. staff before. (See Meet Obama’s newest Census collectors: Your kids!, Aug. 27, 2009).
Brace for even more aggressive tactics in the classroom — like this effort in Florida (hat tip – reader Susanne):
Ariel Civelek was just a baby in the last U.S. Census, but [...]

Mmm, mmmm, mmmm.

Persecution.

Hollywood & Howard Zinn’s Marxist education project
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
The two most important questions for society, according to the Greek philosopher Plato, are these: What will we teach our children? And who will teach them? Left-wing celebrities have teamed up with one of America’s most radical historians to take control of the classroom in [...]

All aboard.

Indoctrination Watch.

Yesterday, I printed a list of sponsor companies and foundations that fund GLSEN, the radical gay rights group founded by Obama safe schools czar Kevin Jennings.
The full list is here.
A reader wrote to GLSEN sponsor Eastman Kodak about the group’s not-safe-for-school reading list and other explicit, extra-curricular activities. This is the response Eastman Kodak sent [...]

From the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, news of a campus murder that appears to be more than your average street crime:
Richard T. Antoun, a respected Binghamton University anthropology professor who grew up in Shrewsbury, spent his entire career seeking peace. His work focused on bridging the divide between religions and cultures, particularly in the Middle [...]

Did you make sure to read the not-safe-for-school reading list of GLSEN, the radical gay rights advocacy group founded by Obama’s safe schools czar Kevin Jennings?
If you missed it last week and you’re a parent, you better go read it now in my summary post from last week. You’ll also get a recap of “Fistgate” [...]

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Doing the investigative work the dinosaur, Obama-enabling media won’t do, Scott Baker and a collaborative research team have waded through the sexually explicit reading list endorsed by safe schools czar Kevin Jennings and the group he founded — GLSEN.
Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit posts the team’s report.
Make sure you have an empty stomach [...]

Last week, I showed you how the SEIU and other union thugs have routinely engaged in brass-knuckle tactics to intimidate volunteers who threaten their power.
Here’s another example to add to the Big Labor Bully file — straight outta Chicago:
We watched an interesting YouTube video the other day. It was brought to our attention by state [...]

Tuition hikes and custodian layoffs were the latest excuse for a UC Berkeley campus tantrum.
The San Francisco Chronicle called the student takeover of Wheeler Hall an “occupation.”
In the old days, dyed-in-the-wool libs would practice civil disobedience and accept their punishment.
In the Age of No Consequences, Berkeley students demand that they be allowed to break rules, [...]

Ugh. Here comes the traveling Obama education circus again. This time, in Baltimore:
The odd couple of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the Rev. Al Sharpton will bring their quest for education reform to Baltimore on Friday.
Gingrich and Sharpton are on a three-city “listening and learning” tour to find out which school strategies are working [...]

Mmm, mmm, mmm.

Compare and contrast:
September 2008…
Senator Obama’s life story, from his humble roots, to his rise to Harvard Law School, to his passion as a community organizer in Chicago, has been at the center of his presidential campaign. But one chapter of the tale remains a blank — his education at Columbia College, a place he rarely [...]

Big Nanny knows best. Parental permission be damned:
“I was outraged,” Naomi Troy, 26, told the Daily News after her 6-year-old daughter, Nikiyah Torres-Pierre, had a possible allergic reaction to the shot.
Officials at Public School 335 in Crown Heights called an ambulance to take Nikiyah to SUNY Downstate Medical Center when she fell ill following the [...]

The good news: Zachary, the 6-year-old cub scout who faced 45 days in a reform school for disruptive students because he brought his pocket fork-spoon-knife tool to lunch, won a “reprieve” from his local school board last night.
The bad news: There is no reprieve from the zero tolerance stupidity and common sense deficit that [...]

The Zero Tolerance Tyrants claim another victim:
Zachary is six years old and was a first grader at Downes Elementary School in Newark, Delaware.
He is a smart, happy, outgoing child who plays Little League Baseball, is a Cub Scout, studies martial arts, is actively involved in his church youth group, and is actively involved [...]

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, Justice Louis Brandeis said.
Which is why labor organizers and left-wing education officials using public tax dollars in government-funded colleges and universities are raging against the scrutiny from Mark Levin’s Landmark Legal Foundation.
For years, Landmark has been filing public disclosure requests to shed light on how “labor centers” at institutions for [...]

“…sour, angry, even dangerous.”

Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are in Chicago today for a pow-wow with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley over the city’s teen violence epidemic:
U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will be in Chicago Wednesday to talk about what the Obama administration is doing to combat youth violence [...]