Harry Mathews's Blog – January 2013 Archive (34)

Where’s the civility? NRA president gets death threats — for his children

The Blaze 1-31-13

http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2013/01/31/wheres-the-civility-nra-president-gets-death-threats-for-his-children/

Bill Ayers Unrepentant Terrorist

by Bill Korach www.thereportcard.org

Bill Ayers will be a keynote speaker at the annual meeting for the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) to be held February 15–19 in Atlanta, GA. Ayers is best known for founding the violent leftist Weather Underground. The Weathermen set of a series of bomb attacks…

(The following is an exerpt from the official Common Core State Standards)

K–12 Schooling: Declining Complexity of Texts

and a Lack of Reading of Complex Texts Independently

Despite steady or growing reading demands from various sources, K–12 reading texts have actually trended downward

in…

Tiger Math: Ann Whitehead Nagda…

Horatio Alger Hard Work and “Rags to Riches”

by Bill Korach www.thereportcard.org

The High School Survey of Student Engagement (HSSSE) reports that the vast majority of kids spend…

Commentary by Don Kennedy

Folks, we have a really serious problem. The Communist Party USA heartily supports Obama’s gun control plans.



Following is a quote from the January 16, 2013 issue of the CPUSA newspaper, People’s World:

Jan. 25, 2013 Billy Hallowell

Should public school districts allow teachers to carry concealed weapons? This is a question that continues to be posed — and debated — in a wake of ongoing concerns surrounding school violence.

Following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting,…

The only way this can be accomplished is by diminishing sports programs for healthy children to the point where no sports team could reach their full potential. This is evidenced by the fact that the womens' rights movement has lead the US to a situation where more women go to college than men. Opportunity was taken from men in order to give women, not an equal shot, but, prefered status in higher education. This type of egalitarianism,…

Jim Liebelt

A growing body of evidence suggests that today’s young adults are drowning in credit-card debt — and that many of them will take this debt to their graves.

More than three-quarters of renters between the ages of 18 and 24 spend more than they earn every month, according to a survey of 1,000 renters (of all ages) by Rent.com. This is the case even though 17 percent of respondents in that age bracket…

Billie Bob and Bubba died in a car crash and went to heaven. Meeting St. Peter at the pearly gate, they were dying (no pun intended) to ask, so, Billie Bob says to the gate keeper "OK, so, who was reeeaaaally behind 911?" St. Peter shrugs and says " Al Queda". Bubba turns to Billie Bob and says, in a low voice, "This is bigger than we thought!"

There are times when i'm proud when someone refers to me as a right-wing-nut-job. This is not one of them. It astounds me that people…

Jonathan Lewis, Home School Enrichment Wednesday, January 23, 2013

If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times—that age-old question asked of every homeschooler by every homeschool skeptic: “What about socialization?”

Whether asked by genuinely concerned and well-meaning relatives or posed by our most ardent critics, the question has become so routine that many homescholers are able to answer it without a moment’s thought. But for years, we’ve…

by Cathy Cleaver Ruse | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 1/17/12

When our sweet little neighbor in her brown camp uniform came knocking on our door this year, we had to say no. I told her mother that I didn’t want to hurt Katie’s feelings, but I couldn’t support the Girl Scout cookie sale anymore because I’d learned too much about the…

by Harry Mathews admin. Education Action Network

            If you are a school teacher, what would you do if a mad man walked into your classroom and started killing you and your students? Would you wish you had fought harder for laws that would allow you the right to self defense? Would you blame the violent video games or the psychotropic drugs? Would you blame the NRA or gun shows or Fast and Furious or the media? Would you wonder when the police or the resource officer would…

By Bill Korach www.thereportcard.org

Dean Kalahar Concerned History Teacher Sarasota

Not only are K-12 students failing to learn about American history and what makes America exceptional, but this year’s…

By COLLEEN CURRY | ABC News

The New Mexico teenager who used an assault rifle to kill his mother, father and younger siblings told police he hoped to shoot up a Walmart after the family rampage and cause "mass destruction."

Police said they are also…

Good Morning and welcome to 1984,

Scandal Crandell#1

(I have inserted my snarky comments in red-just part of my personal therapy-admin.)

Posted: Sunday, January 20, 2013 8:39 am | Updated: 4:01 pm, Sat Jan 19, 2013.

Scarp: A comprehensive approach from our politial leaders,…

By Bill Korach www.thereportcard.org

White Oppressor Studies Taught Here

The Report Card wrote recently about a National Association of Scholars (NAS) that revealed how Race, Class and Gender (RCG) studies are dominating college history courses. Now this virus…

by Charles Rollet - Northwestern University on January 16, 2013

Are the topics of race, class, and gender over-emphasized in college history courses? According to the National Association of Scholars (NAS), the answer is yes.

In its latest report…