Education

A Wellesley Student Speaks Out 7
- Education, Science
- October 25, 2022
I was appalled, but not surprised, when on Saturday, September 24, the Dean of Students at Wellesley College, where I am a student, buried at the end of an email to the student body that all students at Wellesley would be required to receive a shot of the new bivalent Covid-19 booster. Then on October
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Fact-Checking 4 Biden Claims on His Student Loan Bailout 0
- Economics, Education, Politics
- October 24, 2022
President Joe Biden used his home state of Delaware on Friday to promote his “forgiveness” of student loan debt, which he did through executive action in August rather than through Congress. Some of Biden’s assertions during 24 minutes of remarks at Delaware State University in Dover were factual, and some less so. Biden spoke at
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Fists of Furry 2
- Education, Family, Politics
- October 19, 2022
Don’t believe the pervert media. Reuters, NBC News, entertainer John Oliver and Denver 9News zealot Kyle Clark all want you to believe that parents nationwide are simply imagining an infestation of “furries” (children dressing up and identifying as animals) in their public schools. The gaslighting campaign is so toxically incandescent that you can see the
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The Revival of Phonics May Sound the Death Knell for Tyranny 14
- Education, History, Western Civilization
- October 10, 2022
I came across some good news today. The kind of news that makes me think there is some hope for America and its citizens. “What is this good news?” you might ask. It’s simple, really: schools are beginning to teach phonics again. “Is that all?” I can hear you reply. “That’s not such a big
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The Classics Are for Everyone, Not Just Old, Dead, White Men 6
- Education, History, Literature, Western Civilization
- October 7, 2022
Yes, yes, and yes! That was what I shouted, in the silence of my heart, when I finished Louis Markos’ online review “How Classical Education Can Liberate Black America.” Earlier that same week, I’d read yet another account of an attack on the classics of Western civilization, the Great Books as they were once called,
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The Root of Today’s Worldwide Education Problem Is Staring Us in the Face 0
- Education, International
- October 7, 2022
“Our schools,” reports a knowledgeable observer, “are producing ignoramuses.” The average graduate, he explains, “does not know how to read critically, write expressively, or debate intelligently and politely.” Meantime, the unions are opposing huge, proposed increases in beginner-teacher salaries because, instead, they want higher pay for teachers with seniority, regardless of individual performance. Are we
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