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What the? Now facts erased from schoolbooks

wnd.com

by Zahn, Drew

March 20, 2012

You won't believe what's intentionally left out from key U.S. date.

Who perpetrated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 - a group of men merely fighting "for a cause," or a band of radical Muslims bent on violent jihad? According to a new, comprehensive study of 6th-12th grade textbooks used by schools across the country, America's children are being taught a very different answer to that question than many alive to witness 9/11 remember.

What the Head of Hiring at Google Doesn't Understand About Skills

chronicle.com

by Guy Raffa

May 28, 2014

Try as I might, I just can't seem to let it go.

When Laszlo Bock, of Google, tells the columnist Thomas Friedman, of The New York Times, that he would prefer to hire a computer-science student with B grades over an A-plus student who studies English, it doesn't surprise me. Google is in the business of computing, after all. But then I read Bock's rationale, and that's when I nearly lose a mouthful of Cheerios: Unlike English-and presumably other non-STEM fields-computer science "signals a rigor in your thinking," an ability "to think in a formal and logical and structured way." He said what?

What teachers really want to tell parents

cnn.com

by Ron Clark

September 6, 2011

Today, new teachers remain in our profession an average of just 4.5 years, and many of them list "issues with parents" as one of their reasons for throwing in the towel.

Word is spreading, and the more negativity teachers receive from parents, the harder it becomes to recruit the best and the brightest out of colleges. So, what can we do to stem the tide? What do teachers really need parents to understand? For starters, we are educators, not nannies. We are educated professionals who work with kids every day and often see your child in a different light than you do. If we give you advice, don't fight it. Take it, and digest it in the same way you would consider advice from a doctor or lawyer.

What Is Obama Thinking?

CNS News

by Ben Shapiro

November 10, 2011

That's the question that has to be on everyone's lips at this point: We've spent trillions of dollars of taxpayer money we don't have - to no avail.

We've created massive new entitlement programs without funding them. We've emboldened class warfare artists to take to the streets, littering America's public spaces with human debris - all with presidential backing. We've kowtowed to dictators around the world and created new Islamic terror states in the Middle East. It's as though this man doesn't have the best interests of the United States at heart. Maybe he doesn't.

What is Microban and Why is it in My Kid's Lunch Bag?

thesoftlanding.com

August 19, 2016

My friend Tamara, creator of MISLEAD: America's Secret Epidemic, posted the picture you see above on Facebook. She was excited to find a lunch bag that was officially PVC, phthalate and lead-free.

But the "ulra safe" and "worry-free" claims weren't completely justified. We still have one thing left to worry about: Microban. I don't like shedding a questionable light on products like this, because the manufacturer has gone the extra mile to make it safer. But it's more important to make informed decisions, right?

What is Education---

The Sierra Times

by Karen Pennebaker

July 16, 2011

Whether it is "No Child Left Behind" or any other buzz-word, do people really understand what education is-

Many people think if you have a high school diploma or a GED, you are somehow "educated". Others consider a Bachelor's Degree necessary for completing an education. Actually, you can be very well educated without any of those things, if you know what education means!

What if the deficit could actually bolster youth services?

The Providence Journal

by Julia Steiny

January 27, 2008

If America's juvenile justice system were a school district, it would be deemed "in need of improvement," the federal euphemism for "failing."

According to the National Youth Justice Alliance, a juvenile offender has almost a 75-percent chance of going back into the justice system sooner or later. With results like these, "Corrections" is a bald-faced lie.

What if One Day We Get a Bad President?

PJ Media

by Frank J. Fleming

February 20, 2013

The consequences of being saddled with a non-progressive, dumb chief executive are too horrible to imagine.

I believe I have noticed a problem with President Obama's declaring that he can blow up Americans with drone strikes without due process. Stick with me here; this is a bit of an esoteric argument. Now, like most people, I celebrate every time Obama obtains more power. Now he can do whatever he feels needs to be done for the country and not be burdened with getting the approval of his lessers first. So the more powerful the presidency, the better for us all. But I had a terrible thought: What if one day we get a bad president?

What if Catholic bishops aren't bluffing?

Hot Air

by Ed Morrissey

March 1, 2012

I did a little research just on Catholic hospitals and their significance in American health care. As it turns out, this bet involved nearly $100 billion in annual costs and about one-seventh of all hospital beds in the US - and that's not all.

Earlier this week, Francis Cardinal George of the archdiocese of Chicago sent a message to parishioners in Barack Obama's home town that imposition of the HHS mandate to fund and facilitate contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization would force the Catholic Church to close its hospitals, clinics, schools, and all other organizations that would otherwise have to comply. "Two Lents from now," Cardinal George warned, "unless something changes, the page [listing Catholic organizations] will be blank." At the time, some commenters wrote that this has been Obama's plan all along - to force religious charities out of business to make people more dependent on government. Others, including myself, figure that Obama just thinks the bishops are bluffing, and wants to engage in a high-stakes bout of brinksmanship to force them to kneel to secular authority over doctrine.

What I Learned on the Govt. School Bus

Lew Rockwell

by Barry Bright

May 24, 2005

As a country kid I spent two hours a day on that big yellow instrument of torture some people call a school bus.

Often through my government school career I was one of the first if not the first to have to board that diesel-snorting, cold, hot, stinking, dangerous because it was often driven too fast on narrow roads, redneck-bully-filled monstrosity. So I usually avoid thinking about my term of imprisonment there. I learned a few things on the government school bus that I never imagined might still apply in the adult world. I was so wrong. Here's what I learned:

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