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God and Man at Harvard

Harvard University, which was founded 130 years before the United States, has always had a fundamental influence on American educational practice. With its ancient and storied history combined with by far the richest endowment of any educational institu...		 Jul 19, 10 Will Offensicht 0 0

When Unions Were Useful Instead of Harmful

On Scragged's list of "awful things we often write about" right below "Obama administration appointees" can be found "unions." Labor unions are responsible for the destruction of countless millions of American jobs and the death of high-wage American ma...		 Jul 9, 10 Petrarch 0 9

Arizona Goes Two for Two

 Ethnic politics, which is a polite term for racial politics if not racist politics, has been poisoning American society for decades. Various minority groups have agitated for the creation of special university departments dedicated to "black studies," ...		 May 3, 10 Will Offensicht 0 1

Our Debauched Electorate 2

In an era when the ruling Democrats openly claim that they know better how to run your life than you do, when they say that you need to "siddown and shuddup", and that the whole point of their legislative agenda is to "control the people," it's hard not ...		 Apr 9, 10 Petrarch 0 2

The Texas Schoolbook Victory

While most of American conservatism is consumed over the life-or-death struggle against Obamacare this week, it's worth taking note of a major victory elsewhere which might, in the long run, prove to be even more important. The Dallas Morning News tartl...		 Mar 17, 10 Petrarch 0 27

What's In a Black Name?

Poor Harry Reid! Not only did he fail to drag health-care reform through a Senate in which his party supposedly commanded a supermajority; not only is his own Senate seat under heavy threat as generally-conservative Nevadans realize that he doesn't repr...		 Jan 21, 10 Hobbes 0 0

Affirmative Action Holds Blacks Down

Just as we thought there couldn't possibly be any more accusations of racism floating around the public square, a black scholar had to come along and rip the lid off once again. In "Rich, Black, Flunking," the East Bay Express reports on the research ...		 Oct 9, 09 Will Offensicht 0 3

Children Belong To Parents, Not Government

In "Dutch delay 13-year-old sailor's worldwide trip," the Associated Press reports that Dutch courts have ruled that 13 year old Laura Dekker must be evaluated by a child psychologist before she can be permitted to try to sail around the world by herself...		 Sep 21, 09 Will Offensicht 0 18

California's Death Rattle

California. Everything that America is, only much more so. Extremes of poverty and wealth; legal immigrants who grabbed the American dream with all ten fingers and illegals who drag their third-world pestholes into America along with them; wide freeway...		 May 21, 09 Petrarch 0 2

Taking D.C. to School

During the George W. Bush years, it was easy to think that American politics could not possibly get nastier or more polarized than it already was. With Mr. Obama's election, that view has turned out to be much too optimistic; opinion polls demonstrate t...		 May 12, 09 Petrarch 0 1

Barack Obama's Democrats Promote White Supremacy

 Over the last few weeks, the Democratic party of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid has willfully destroyed the educational opportunities of thousands of inner-city black children through fraud and deceit, in exactly the same way as the vicious ...		 May 8, 09 Petrarch 0 5

Judge Orders Successful Homeschooler into Inferior Public School

In North Carolina case #08CVD17753, Judge Ned Mangum has ordered that a mother stop homeschooling her children at the end of this year and enroll them in public school. World Net Daily reports: A statement released by a publicist working for the moth...		 Mar 16, 09 Will Offensicht 0 5

Is Aborting Black Kids' Education Stupid? Or Evil?

 There's a saying: never assume hostility for anything that can be explained by stupidity. People who've coped with life for multiple decades recognize that stupidity explains a lot because there's so much of it. There comes a point, however, when resu...		 Mar 11, 09 Will Offensicht 0 1

Plagiarism, Publicity, and the Human Flesh Search Engine

 In an article "University fires teacher for blog post," the Daily Texan reports that Texas A&M University fired a professor for publishing the names of students accused of plagiarism. In his syllabus, professor Loye Young wrote that he would "promptl...		 Feb 20, 09 Will Offensicht 0 19

Sen. Pell, Architect of Unpleasant Side Effects

 On Jan 2, 2009, Reuters reported the death of Senator Claiborne Pell: Claiborne Pell, an aristocratic Rhode Islander who spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate and was best known for championing better education for the poor, died Thursday, the Providence...		 Jan 5, 09 Will Offensicht 0 6

Think? No Thanks, I Go To Public School

 My husband and I met 7 years ago. At the beginning of our relationship, he would sit around and debate friends and colleagues and the debates would be way over my head. I would sit and think to myself, wow - how did they even start thinking of this? ...		 Nov 26, 08 Felicity Gladwell 0 3

A Farewell to Duty

During my Boy Scout years, we recited the Boy Scout oath in unison at every meeting. It begins, "On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country..." The oath identifies three duties which Scouts swear to fulfill: 1. Duty to God...		 Oct 24, 08 Will Offensicht 0 7

A Change Sen. Obama Won't Make

A few months back, Sen. McCain passed up our advice to make a strong pitch promising school choice to black voters. We noted that most black parents are well aware of the potential of education to improve their children's lives - as long as ten years ag...		 Oct 9, 08 Will Offensicht 0 2

Black Voter Breakthrough?

No matter who wins in November, the 2008 Presidential election will be historic. That's been apparent for a long time; since early this year, our next president could only be either the first black man, the first woman, or the oldest newly elected Ameri...		 Jul 25, 08 Petrarch 0 1

Scragged's Endorsement for President

The home stretch of this never-ending presidential nominating process is fast upon us. Whether it's "official" now or later, the Democratic nominee is known, barring some miracle of political chicanery. Again barring a miracle, the Republican nominee h...		 Jun 10, 08 Petrarch 0 12

Taking the Principal to School

KARE in Minneapolis reports: The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint against Memphis City schools demanding new school policies, a reprimand of a school principal, and money for the two male students who said they were put on a gay li...		 May 6, 08 Petrarch 0 2

Let California Outlaw Homeschooling

In the past couple of weeks, a low-level furor has been roiling the Golden State over the subject of homeschooling. A California appeals court appeared to rule that there is no right to homeschool your children in the state of California. As you might ...		 Mar 20, 08 Petrarch 0 6

American Culture Undermines America

In an article "Whizzing By", the New York Sun reports that a New York University study shows that new immigrants do the best in American schools, but the longer immigrants are in American schools, the worse they do: These conclusions come from a new s...		 Mar 13, 08 Will Offensicht 0 2

Failed Government Monopoly Strikes Back

The Los Angeles Times recently panicked California home schoolers by reporting that a California appeals court had ruled that California parents did not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children. As noted below, the teacher's union tried ...		 Mar 12, 08 Will Offensicht 0 0

The Other Immigration Idiocy

In its email update of Feb. 10, the New York Times said: "Universities Rush to Set Up Outposts Abroad. The American system of higher education, long the envy of the world, is starting to become an important export." The article explains how New Yo...		 Feb 19, 08 Will Offensicht 0 3

Government Don't Know Jack: Education

This is a multi-part series examining inherent conflicts in government and the ultimate goal of avoiding the Confucian Cycle. This series examines ways the government ought to be able to help the economy, assuming that politicians want the economy to ...		 Jan 31, 08 Will Offensicht 0 13

Africa: If Oprah Can't Fix It, Nobody Can

Oprah (Winfrey) is a member of that elite group of celebrities who, like Madonna (Ritchie) and Elvis (Presley), require but one name. Forbes magazine has ranked her as a billionaire for some years now, and she has been called the richest black Ame...		 Nov 26, 07 Petrarch 0 0

Disrupting Tyrants with Web 3.0

In an article "Get One, Give One" on page 72 of the October 1 issue, Newsweek reported on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Prof. Negroponte of MIT had a dream of making laptops cheap enough that developing countries could buy them for e...		 Nov 5, 07 Will Offensicht 0 9

Manhattan Madrassa

As we confront the threat of Islamic terrorism, it helps to know where terrorists come from. And a quick peek at the record shows that, in most cases, they are not just born, but made. There's a clear connection between the suicide bomber and ...		 Sep 11, 07 Petrarch 0 0

How To Evaluate a Public School

Mr. Bush's "No Child Left Behind" program focused attention on the question of how to evaluate a school. The basic idea was to test each student, add up the student test results, and you had a result for the school. That sounds good, but rating a schoo...		 Sep 4, 07 Will Offensicht 0 6