Education
Should it be "No Child Left Behind"? Is mandatory testing helping or hurting? Education is as hot a topic as ever. This is a general topic holder for sub-topics that are related to education as well.
Who is involved in your child's education?
by J.Wright (libertarian)
Published: January 18, 2012
Our nation's youth is our nation future. Our current education system has been failing our children. Who is at fault for your child?
Pay For Performance - The Failed Experiment
by Bill Gee (centrist)
Published: July 26, 2011
Should teachers be paid bonuses for improved test scores from their students? The research says NO!
Legislating Curriculum Or Why Kids Hate Social Studies
by Bill Gee (centrist)
Published: July 20, 2011
State legislatures sacrifice academic freedom and further marginalize minority students.
In Defense of Nellie Oleson
by Russell G. Davis (centrist)
Published: April 18, 2011
Bullying has been making headlines in recent months and as loathsome as practice as it is, we should not forget that the worst bully of all is the system itself.
We Have Money For War But Not Education?
by Russell W. Dickson (libertarian)
Published: April 7, 2011
What's does it say about our society that we can readily raise $1.171 trillion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and hundreds of millions of dollars for the no-fly zone in Libya, yet when it comes to the future of our kids, and their education, we can't raise a dime, or so it would seem.
Gov. Cuts Important School Programs
by Russell W. Dickson (libertarian)
Published: April 7, 2011
If the Congress, state and local municipalities get their way and cuts funding to art and music programs there will no need for paintbrushes, or musical instruments in the 2010-11 school. Changes, and cuts in funding for extracurricular and co-curricular activities, including music and arts programs, mean the death of our children's music and arts educations, and it is happening right now across the country.
"Sacred Cows" that Teacher Unions Must Give Up
by Bill Gee (centrist)
Published: March 3, 2011
If we have any hope of reforming education, two "sacred cows" of teachers unions must fall: Lifetime tenure and LIFO.
Why the Founding Fathers would not like the Tea Party: A Teachable Moment by Bill Maher
by Jim Byrd (libertarian)
Published: February 17, 2011
This article is a compare and contrast of what passed for intellectual elite during the founding era of this country, and what passes today as intellectual elite
Obama's Blueprint for Total Federal Control in Public Education
by Lew Cypher (libertarian)
Published: April 10, 2010
As America jusfifiably writhes over passage of Obamacare into law by hook or crook, the Obama administration is quietly poising itself to take over public education on a scale that makes No Child Left Behind look meaningless
Tenure and the Teachers Union
by Lew Cypher (libertarian)
Published: March 13, 2010
Not since the days when local school boards fired male teachers for dating and female teachers for getting married, have teachers been under such serious assault from both the Left and the Right.
The Three Faces of Public Education in America
by Lew Cypher (libertarian)
Published: March 6, 2010
Whether seen as Temple, Factory or Town Meeting, public education has been caught in a decades old, if not centuries old tug-of-war over its mission, mandate and future.
Race to the Top of education a loss for all
by Gary Wood (conservative)
Published: March 4, 2010
Obama's administration has created a new game for states to play and today the Sweet '16' finalists were named.
The Dumbing of America
by Wayne Lundberg (libertarian)
Published: January 23, 2010
It all started in the early 40's when excellence became the enemy
Leftish Professors
by John Kozy (liberal)
Published: January 22, 2010
The notion that there is political lopsidedness in academia tilted to the left is an old canard propagated by anti-intellectual ideologists who do not now and never had a taste for truth. The only reason this canard keeps popping up is that journalism is a label that leans toward stupidity. It will go away when journalists quit reporting it.
Balderdashing Education Bashing
by John Kozy (liberal)
Published: November 14, 2009
When Calvin Coolidge said "The business of America is business," he and very few if any others knew just how deep this sentiment would sink into the American consciousness. Now it seems apparent that the way business thinks has muscled every other kind of thought process out of the American mind. The unfortunate result is that if no business solution exists to an American ailment, it festers into an incurable American disease.
Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest in Higher Education
by John Kozy (liberal)
Published: October 23, 2009
As an elderly, former university professor, I am deeply anguished whenever I come across shameful academic writing. Such writing not only exposes the inability of the writer but it exhibits the extent of decline in American university teaching and is a symptom of a decadent civilization. Institutions that employ these writers have abandoned the classical educational ideals of truth, goodness, and beauty for belief, greed, and exploitation. And not only Americans but the whole world is paying a horrid price for it.
Abolish the Federal Department of Education!!!
by Jake Towne, the Champion of the Constitution (libertarian)
Published: October 20, 2009
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it required no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." - Thomas Jefferson, 1787
One Billion Stimulus Dollars to Save California's Universities
by Paul Benedict (libertarian)
Published: June 12, 2009
Tax cutting Republicans will not trumpet this, and tax-them-ever-more Democrats won't admit this, but over a billion dollars of President Obama's stimulus money is finding a happy home in California's universities. The scandal is not Governor Schwarzenegger's draconian cuts; it's that California's universities' unfettered growth grows unchecked for yet another season.
Universal, Quality Education: "Free Is the Enemy of the Affordable"
by Ohm (centrist)
Published: March 29, 2009
I am opposed to making people start their life with (educational) debt, and stay indebted forever. But going in the other extreme - where the State takes it all - is equally reprehensible. More than that, it is dangerous - for it creates the thought that "Government has taken care of everything". An "easy does it" society is a stagnating society, at risk of uproot, at least being left behind, by others.
No "Change" in Education Policy Either
by Kenn Jacobine (libertarian)
Published: March 14, 2009
This past week President Obama made a major education speech in front of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
We Are What We Repeatedly Do
by Gary Wood (conservative)
Published: February 17, 2009
According to the words of Aristotle this is something we are unable to avoid. By our very human nature we become the people we are by continually doing the things we do. The founders understood this concept and we also should understand it.
Education was promoted from the earliest times in the U.S.
by Kamala Sarup (centrist)
Published: September 29, 2008
Since many settlers had strong Christian religious beliefs, a rudimentary education was necessary to read and understand the Bible. That education turned out to be useful in work as well as business pursuits.
Munger Responds to NC Education Forum 'Debate'
by Brian Irving (libertarian)
Published: September 19, 2008
NC Education: Everybody's Business -- except those who challenge the status quo.
Will Smith Meets with Anonymous
by Helen Parsons (libertarian)
Published: September 11, 2008
"I am not a Scientologist" says actor, despite using Scientology teaching methods at his school New Village Leadership Acaemy
How to Handle Fear-Mongering Transmitters and the Big Media / YouTube Fear Profiteers
by Nickalis N. Tower (libertarian)
Published: August 17, 2008
After being sent a 'Martial Law' email by a detroit Ron Paul admirer that I've never met, I thought I would give the public a chance to view the video and determine for themselves if this is simply more mass-distraction / fear-mongering, or is actually newsworthy. What happened next is I outlined my turnkey solution to help alleviate irrational fears in self and others.
The Universal Individual Pledge of Independence - The Silk Revolution Begins
by Emma Goldman (libertarian)
Published: August 14, 2008
The Silk Revolution offically begins, August 14th, 2008. Emma Goldman, 21-ARA Founder and Silk Revolution Founding Mother Issues this universal pledge of alligience, on the Anniversary of the beginnings of the armed revolt in Revolutionary Boston against tyranny, August 14th.
The New Emma Goldman Quotes : Volume 1 (Silk Revolution files)
by Emma Goldman (libertarian)
Published: August 13, 2008
Widely regarded men have espoused quotes deemed brilliant over the centuries. Emma Goldman seeks to make their Brilliant Quotes more Enlightening
The Good and the Bad of Mr. Steve Cohen's 'apology for slavery' via House Resolution 194
by Emma Goldman (libertarian)
Published: July 31, 2008
A.P. reporter Jim Abram's article of a day ago reveals some important (and encouraging) political developments. But Congressman Cohen's "apology for slavery" wasn't one of them.
The Ayn Rand Lovers and Haters : "The Golden egos loved her, the Clay Egos hated her."
by Emma Goldman (libertarian)
Published: July 30, 2008
Wisdom imparted by my beloved Aunt, in a personal letter to me. This is her letter, and my insights on it helped to answer a life-long puzzle of mine.
The Atlas Society and 'Open Objectivism' : A wrong choice of words.
by Nickalis N. Tower (libertarian)
Published: July 21, 2008
Dr. David Kelley and the Board of The Atlas Society announced that the 'east coast objectivists' would re-organize themselves under the term 'Open Objectivism'
Hello, I'm a friendly 21st Century American Loving Radical for Anarchy
by Emma Goldman (libertarian)
Published: June 7, 2008
How I, Emma Goldman, an Individualist-Feminist, participated in the moral 20th century radical anarchist community, and obsoleted my own 19th century notion of Anarchy, and created the Pro-American Radical Anarchism for the 21st century.
Reactionary Ranting, Reasoning and Relating It All
by Jahfre Fire Eater (libertarian)
Published: May 12, 2008
Stream of consciousness flowing from a website promoting the book The Five Languages of Love by Gary Chapman. Self-help de-constructed, Fire Eater style.
How the American Government is Destroying Education
by Nicola M (libertarian)
Published: March 12, 2008
Federally-imposed standardized tests and regulations on education are responsible for the decline of quality in America's schools.
The College Access and Cost Reduction Act
by Chuck Angier (libertarian)
Published: March 5, 2008
Loose, easy credit and $20 billion of taxpayer money is sure to increase the cost of higher education.
Will the Anti-Christ be Anti-Homeschool?
by Craig Treadwell (libertarian)
Published: February 20, 2008
In 1925, the United States Supreme Court unanimously declared that "the fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only."
Centrist Education
by Kishi (centrist)
Published: February 18, 2008
With the election in full swing, the education of our children is a huge issue. I am endeavoring to present a realistic approach to the problem that can work for everyone.
My Child Must be Left Behind!
by Taliesin (libertarian)
Published: February 2, 2008
From the perspective of a parent who has a disabled child. I see a fundamental flaw in the No Child Left Behind Act.
_ _ _ Bless America
by R.J. Moeller (conservative)
Published: October 1, 2007
My response to a secular-atheist's attempt to remove "God Bless America" from the list of acceptable Homecoming songs.
National Educational Assessment Rubbish
by Walt Thiessen (libertarian)
Published: September 26, 2007
The U.S. Department of Education is all aglow because 4th and 8th grade Math scores are two points higher than they were two years ago. They don't even want to consider the idea that intensive testing only proves that kids are learning to study for the tests, at the expense of their real educations.
Subtopics under this Topic:Drug and Alchohol Education
Drug and Alcohol Prevntion Education
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