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**Written by Doug Powers New York University is no longer the only school offering OWS classes. The notion of competition seems so… capitalist… but there it is nonetheless: Columbia University is offering a new course on Occupy Wall Street next semester — sending upperclassmen and grad students into the field for full course credit. The [...]

Scholastic Inc. is a nearly century-old educational publishing company that distributes books, magazines, and other teaching materials through the schools. If you have kids (or remember from your own grade-school days), Scholastic puts out news bulletins that get sent home weekly or monthly. One of those items is Scholastic News, which bills itself as “America’s [...]

A lot of competition for the award, but this freak wins hands down (hat tip: Ed Shahzade): A Suffolk University law professor will not collect items for United States troops overseas and thinks it is “shameful” to do so. Law professor Michael Avery sent a five-paragraph e-mail to colleagues in response to a school-wide appeal [...]

Readin’, ‘ritin’ and class war indoctrination

Proposition 103, the only statewide tax increase on the November ballot across the country, is going down tonight, according to number-crunchers in my home state of Colorado. If the results of this massive tax hike referendum had gone the big government/big labor lobby’s way, it would be front-page news tomorrow and Debbie Blabberman-Schultz would be [...]

“Who thinks he’s part of the reason we were born in debt?”

Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you are paying attention. Democrats in Washington are turning up the heat on the GOP as they push for quick passage of the “mini” $35 billion union jobs bailout. True to Alinsky form, Team Obama is spinning more emo-narratives centered on saving teachers from layoffs. At a Save the Teachers [...]

Oh, and don’t even think about it!

“Things got really bad before we came into office…”

If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you’re familiar with the “aroma in Tacoma” — that infamous odor caused by the pulp mills and cow manure. Well, there’s a different kind of aroma overtaking the city. It’s the stench of Big Labor intransigence as the public teachers’ union defies a court order to end its [...]

All the wrong 9/11 lessons by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden’s henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth. “Know [...]

Movie star Matt Damon has made a few notable appearances on this blog over the years — for his blind championing of the late radical Marxist academic Howard Zinn and his Sarah Palin Derangement Syndrome. He’s back today in my syndicated column for his ignorant diatribe against “drill and kill” education methods and lifetime teacher [...]

“Nice school your kid goes to… shame if something were to happen to it”

Postcard from London: Wisconsin on the Thames by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 LONDON – Big Labor looks the same wherever you go: Petulant, irrational, and wholly aggrieved beyond its means. I’m here on vacation with family as some 750,000 public-sector employees strike in protest over modest pension reform proposals. It’s a taste of [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The Reverse Midas Touch has claimed another victim: TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio restaurant mentioned last week by President Barack Obama as an indirect beneficiary of the government’s Chrysler bailout will go out of business Sunday after a more than 70-year history. Co-owner Richard Lawrence of New Chet’s Restaurant in [...]

**Written by Doug Powers If the government calls in a SWAT team because of a few dollars owed for student loans, what do you think they’ll do if you do not obey the Obamacare law to the letter? From KXTV-10: STOCKTON, CA – Kenneth Wright does not have a criminal record and he had no [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Today, a relatively useless government chart will be replaced by a similarly useless but easier to understand chart: (CNN) — Remember the food pyramid, the old symbol that showed us what a healthy diet looked like? Well, forget it. First lady Michelle Obama and several other officials will unveil a new [...]

**Written by Doug Powers “Green Ribbon Schools” — Because Al Gore deserves to head toward his twilight years with the comfort of knowing that the next generation is being trained to keep him in the lifestyle to which he’s become accustomed: (CNSNews.com) – Next year on Earth Day, the Obama administration plans to announce which [...]

Not today

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports left-wing PBS and NPR, continues to sop up hundreds of millions in taxpayer subsidies. Despite GOP efforts to de-fund the progressive behemoth, CPB is forging ahead with its expansive mission creep agenda. Want to know what they’re up to now? Check out their latest initiative unveiled today: The [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The food profiteers & self-appointed nutrition cops stampede onward. From the Chicago Tribune: Fernando Dominguez cut the figure of a young revolutionary leader during a recent lunch period at his elementary school. “Who thinks the lunch is not good enough?” the seventh-grader shouted to his lunch mates in Spanish and English. [...]

Pictures are worth a thousand words. This one, via Jason Hart at thathero, is a priceless rejoinder to the class-warfare demagoguery of the public employee unions: As Jason explains: “Consider the average OEA employee’s pay, stacked up against the averages for Ohio private industry workers, government employees, and teachers…The data (aggregated here in a single [...]

How fitting that a school named after our profligate, post-achievement president is shutting down thanks to fiscal mismanagement and non-achievement. R.I.P., Barack Obama Elementary School (hat tip: reader Peter): The state fiscal monitor who oversees financial operations in the school district Thursday morning ordered the closing of the Barack H. Obama Elementary School as of [...]

This could be you!

“I didn’t expect to see a live sex show.”

A reader sends an organizing alert from the American Federation of Teachers being circulated among public school educators in Wisconsin this week. Who cares about teaching arithmetic or social studies? It’s Alinsky and social justice time! NEW Activist training March 4 & 5 Pyle Center–UW Madison Madison, WI Working with the national AFT, we are [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Sadly — or maybe not so much — a school sign like the one above will have to wait: A local school district in Joe Biden’s own state snubbed America’s No. 2 by opting not to name a new elementary school after him. Though his name was in the running as [...]

My column today expounds on my blog post yesterday on the New York State teachers’ union call to “agitate.” Both the New York state and New York city teachers’ unions wields immense power with massive budgets funded with forced member dues. You may have read the exclusive story in the NYPost on the NYC’s United [...]

I’ll get to the above image in the moment. First, a few refreshers. In 2009, I noted that Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals was a featured item on the National Education Association reading list. I reminded you of Weather Underground terrorist and FOO (Friend of Obama) Bill Ayers’ 2006 speech at the World Economic Forum [...]

Yesterday, I posted on public school teachers speaking truth to prog power — a topic I’ve been reporting on since the late-1990s, when I covered the battle of brave dissident educators who challenged the Washington Education Association’s misuse and abuse of forced dues for Democrat politics. Tonight, another public school teacher shared his thoughts with [...]