Posted by Neal McCluskey on July 21, 2010
By Neal McCluskey
Explicit, forced racial integration of the public schools is almost completely a thing of the past, buried in part by broad distaste for it among Americans of all races who had grown tired of the conflict, coercion, and plain inconvenience it often caused, as well as numerous Supreme Court rulings sharply curtailing it. But coerced integration has not gone away: [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: Education, Education and Child Policy, General, public school choice, racial integration, school board | 
No Comments »
Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on July 15, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
AEI’s Rick Hess worries that school choice advocates are moving into the public messaging arena with “brazenly manipulative” flicks that rely on shallow “sound bites.” He cites the screening of five documentaries at an upcoming national conference in San Franscisco to argue his point.
I can’t comment on them as a whole–I haven’t seen them all–but I would like [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: documentaries, Education, Education and Child Policy, James Tooley, Regulatory Studies, rick hess, school choice | No Comments »
Posted by Neal McCluskey on July 15, 2010
By Neal McCluskey
According to a Fort Worth Star-Telegram report, President Obama plans to reprise last year’s hotly debated role as Principal-in-Chief to help kick off the coming school year.
Will he have the Department of Education once again put out leading and Obama-aggrandizing study guides? Will he again take personal credit for getting computers and other goodies into your kids’ schools? [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: constitutional, Education, Education and Child Policy, Government, Government and Politics, government jobs, obama, Video | No Comments »
Posted by Neal McCluskey on July 15, 2010
By Neal McCluskey
According to a Fort Worth Star-Telegram report, President Obama plans to reprise last year’s hotly debated role as Principal-in-Chief to help kick off the coming school year.
Will he have the Department of Education once again put out leading and Obama-aggrandizing study guides? Will he again take personal credit for getting computers and other goodies into your kids’ schools? [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: constitutional, Education, Education and Child Policy, Government, Government and Politics, government jobs, obama, Video | No Comments »
Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on June 22, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
Nick Gillespie drew attention yesterday to an op-ed Charles Murray wrote on school choice. Murray’s thesis was that the dominance of family environment and genetics in determining student achievement is such as to allow little room for schools to affect academic outcomes. That said, Murray goes on to argue for school choice anyway, on the grounds that [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: charles murray, Education, Education and Child Policy, market education, nick gillespie, public schools, school choice | No Comments »
Posted by Neal McCluskey on June 21, 2010
By Neal McCluskey
Last week, national standards super-advocate Chester Finn called me “paranoid” for arguing that “common” curriculum standards states adopt in pursuit of federal money will somehow end up being federal and, as a result, bad. Well it seems that Jay Greene and I — the two paranoiacs Finn identified by name — are not alone. Here’s a roundup of [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: curriculum, curriculum standards, Education, Education and Child Policy, federal government, federal money, General, Government, homeschoolers, national standards, standards | No Comments »
Posted by Daniel J. Mitchell on June 18, 2010
By Daniel J. Mitchell
This is not a story from The Onion…
The Associated Press reports that a school in Rhode Island prohibited eight-year-old David Morales from wearing a hat that he decorated with toy soldiers that…gasp…had tiny little plastic weapons. According to school administrators, the hat violates a “no weapons” policy.
Here’s the relevant section of the report:
Christan Morales said her son just [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: Education, Education and Child Policy, Government and Politics, gun control, Law and Civil Liberties, political correctness, Political Philosophy | No Comments »
Posted by Neal McCluskey on June 17, 2010
By Neal McCluskey
Finished with my woman
‘Cause she couldn’t help me with my mind
People think I’m insane
Because I am frowning all the time
- Black Sabbath, “Paranoid”
According to the Fordham Institute’s Chester Finn, I and others like me are “paranoid.” So why, like Ozzy Osbourne, am I “frowning all the time?” Because I look at decades of public [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: curriculum, curriculum standards, drinking age, Education, Education and Child Policy, education funding, education system, elementary and secondary education, federal dollars, General, Government, government control, no child left behind, parent, President Obama, public school, public schooling, public schools, Race to the Top, race to the top fund, secondary education, standards, unions | No Comments »
