Harry Mathews's Blog – January 2015 Archive (21)

By Robert Preidt

HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, Jan. 26, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- …

21 January 2015 The Report Card

Robert George

Princeton University

(Editor: www.thereportcard.org According to Princeton’s Robert George, single parent families are a key cause of poverty,…

The District of Columbia spends the most per student nationwide.

By Allie BidwellJan. 29, 2015 |U.S. News And World Report

Per-student spending decreased in most states between 2011 and 2012.

The amount of money states spend on each student for instruction and instruction-related…

30 January 2015 The Report Card

(Editor: www.thereportcard.org New York spends $19,552 per student, more than any other state in America. Yet only 40% of 4^th graders are proficient in math, and 37% in Reading. City College of NY says that 80% who attend the…

KYLE OLSON 1-29-15 EAG

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – It’s National School Choice Week and that means children are celebrating their current high-quality educational opportunities or are…

EAG News 1-26-15

<STEVE GUNN 

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Taxpayers naively accept the explanations of public officials far too often.



For instance, when the St. Paul, Minnesota school district unveiled its proposed 2013-14 budget, it included a plan to use $12.6 million in fund…

Education Watchdogs January 22, 2015 

Gilbert Watch 1-20-15

As of this writing, over 90 Arizona schools and school districts have adopted a K-12 educational program called Beyond Textbooks (BT).  BT was designed by the Vail…

Lou Ann Anderson 1-23-15 Education Watchdogs

PUBLIC ED MARKETING 101: Partially paid for by taxpayers, PR campaigns by the Texas public education sector are in full force as school districts face concerns over increased competition…

by Jeffrey Dorfman 4-19-14 Forbes

This week Shahein Nasiripour at The Huffington Post reported on the huge projected profit from the government run student loan program. The article mostly focuses on how wrong it is for the government to be profiting from lending money to college students and whether these projected profits could be used to lower the…

RARE American News Feed 6-30-15

Bonnie Kristian, Rare Contributor

Posted on June 30, 2014 7:27…

By  Doug Powers  •  January 10, 2015 - **Written by Doug Powers

And the …

KYLE OLSON 

1-9-15

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Even a $50 million budget deficit in the Buffalo school district couldn’t convince members of the Buffalo Federation of Teachers to cut down on their taxpayer-funded tummy tucks, breast lifts and nose jobs.

In fact, school district spending on the unique…

23 September 2014 The Report Card

Spending way up, scores down

Editor: www.thereportcard.org The NAEP, The Department of Education’s assessment of student performance has been released for 2013, and it’s a disgrace…

Jan. 8, 2015 The Patriot Post

s millions of students returned to school this week after Christmas break – pardon, “winter holiday” – 535 children legislators convened in Washington to determine, among other things, whether they will allow to continue unchecked the steep deterioration of America’s educational system.

No Child Left Behind, the behemoth federal legislation that’s left not simply one child but an entire generation behind, may…

02 January 2015 The Report Card

(Editor: www.thereportcard.org According to the US Department of Education, 88% of high school seniors are NOT proficient in US History, yet immigrants must pass an oral test about history and American government. Indiana State Senator Dennis Kruse,…