December 2011 Blog Posts (13)

by Pat Kossan - Dec. 24, 2011 11:12 PM

The Arizona Republic

Over the next three years, the reforms will shake up what students learn and when they are promoted, as well as how teachers are evaluated and schools are graded.

In 2002, the federal No Child Left Behind Act dramatically expanded the…

It is commonly asserted, especially by people within higher education, that the American Ivory Tower is strapped for cash and tightfisted taxpayers are to blame. Taxpayer support for postsecondary education has long been in decline, this narrative goes, and has forced schools to continually raise tuition to make up for the losses.

Tallying taxpayer-backed expenditures on higher education over the last quarter-century, and separately tallying 15 years of…

A message to all members of Arizona Freedom Alliance

You likely know that Randy Parraz and Organizing for America recently went to a Maricopa BoS meeting to demand they fire Sheriff Arpaio.  Of course, they knew as we all do that the BoS has no authority to do that so this was just grand standing by the corrupt leftists.  When anyone outside of their rowdy thugs tried to speak, they drowned them out.  Courtesy is not in their lexicon!

Several people wrote letters to…

By SELIM ALGAR and LEONARD GREENE

Last Updated: 6:20 AM, December 16, 2011

The Tebow mania sweeping the nation sacked a group of Long Island high-school students who were suspended for mimicking the quarterback’s famous prayer pose.

Twin brothers Tyler and Connor Carroll of Riverhead HS and classmates Jordan Fulcoly and Wayne Drexel were hit with one-day suspensions for kneeling and bowing their heads like Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow does when he scores…

 

Written by Bob Adelmann   Monday, 31 October 2011

 In late September the Wisconsin Education Association Trust (WEA Trust) announced that it had successfully outbid another insurance carrier to provide health insurance coverage for some 11,000 state employees in west-central Wisconsin. WEA Trust President Mark Moody happily concluded, “It really affirms, independently and objectively, that our rates are competitive.”

The WEA Trust, created in 1970 by Wisconsin’s…

Posted by Tait Trussell Bio ↓ on Dec 13th, 2011

Scholars at the Hoover Institution have now pinpointed the best and worst educational developments of the year, from growth in parental…

By J.R. CLARK AND DWIGHT R. LEE Posted 12/07/2011

What is the proper role of government in a market economy? This is an important question and one that has long been the source of political controversy.

The current political situation is no exception, with a sharp divide between those who favor firm limits on government's interference in markets and those who favor more flexible limits so government can, among other things, correct market failures that are…

10-24-11

NEW YORK -- While on Wall Street many protesters decry economic inequality, and in Washington, D.C. debates continue over federal education policy, teachers across the country are occupying their classrooms.

In the eyes of the president of the second-largest teachers' union, the two issues of inequality and education are closely related. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, has been a frequent visitor to New York's OWS protests. The AFT…

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments last month in a religious liberty case that could determine whether a college has the right to require students to profess certain beliefs in order to get a degree, WORLD News Service reports. Augusta State University put counseling student Jennifer Keeton on academic probation in 2010 after she said she disagreed with homosexuality; administrators also faulted her for saying…

We the people resolve to uphold and defend our nation’s fundamental principlesof freedom and liberty for all as set forth in our Declaration of Independenceand in the Constitution of the United  States of America.

We the people resolve to constrain the size of all government— local, state andfederal.

We the people resolve to return government to the hands of the people.

We the people resolve to reform the education system to assure that AmericanHistory, Economics,…

 

October 2, 2011 by John_ChildUp

Most children are taught to print the first few years of grade school and, depending on the school, either they stay with printing throughout their school careers or they are also taught cursive, usually in second or third grade.

Is learning cursive still important in an age of texting and email? Most definitely, yes. I particularly side with those who recommend teaching cursive handwriting as a strategy to stimulate brain synchronicity.…

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A third-grade teacher who resigned this week after parents accused her of dressing their daughters in lingerie and photographing them at a Christmas party was arrested on Thursday.

Kimberly Crain, 47, was arrested at her home in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and will face charges…