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Bob Ewing of the Institute for Justice has a must-read, true-life tale of how Big Labor educrats killed the D.C. school choice program. In a nutshell, the teacher unions bought off politicians to kill a program that improved the fortunes of thousands of the poorest kids in DC: -The program saved taxpayers millions of dollars [...]

Hey! Teacher! Leave that thing alone!

Melinda Tankard Reist blew the whistle on sexualized video games offered on the Nickelodeon kids’ tv website a few weeks ago. Newsbusters has more here. (Link fixed) One of the games features players trying to look up the skirts of women. I hear Tennessee Democrat Rep. Janis Baird Sontany is a big fan of that [...]

The thrill is gone

“This award for promoting sustainable lifestyles will look great hanging on a wall in the cavernous, climate-controlled living room in one of my mansions!”

The “Recovery Act” stimulus sham gave $100 billion to school districts in part to allegedly “save teachers jobs,” but a year later the stimulus has worked so well that they’re going back to the trough for more: Despite President Obama’s pledge for honest budgeting and billions of dollars in stimulus money spent to save teachers’ [...]

“Four dancers dressed as cornstalks, including one of the strikers, twirled and gestured ceremonially to a percussion beat.”

I’ve blogged many times here over the years about the insidious influence of the Muslim Students Association on college campuses across the country (see here and here). No one has done more than vigilant anti-jihad combatant David Horowitz to engage the MSA directly, expose its ideological roots and funding, and educate the public about how [...]

“Determination. Plus discipline. Plus hard work. That is the path.”

If you’re not invited, raise your hand!

Our young friend Jason Mattera debuts his new book, Obama Zombies, today. Go out and get one for your favorite high-schooler or college student now before it’s too late. I told Jason to “knock ‘em dead” on the book tour — but of course, so many of the cult of O generation are already brain-dead. [...]

Grievance zoo.

If you are sick of the fecklessness and fiscal responsibility fakers in Washington, here is something to lift your spirits. Read Mish’s review of NJ Gov. Chris Christie’s austerity speech and action plan outlined at a meeting of the Garden State’s League of Municipalities here. I’ve been longing for a public official with the courage [...]

“Food fight.”

Trojan Horse.

The woman was out of control. Law enforcement officers knew it. Her family knew it. Academia must have known it. How many more incidents like this will be disclosed before we stop the charade of plausible deniability? And how did she continue to get pass after pass? Who vouched for her? Who will take responsibility? [...]

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 [...]

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! *** Jimme Bise tweets: “Two! Four! Six! [...]

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. *** The Super-Sized Census Boondoggle [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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