Evidently, women’s studies types have found at least one woman they may not want to study, at least as a role model.
Monthly Archives For September 2008
California Math Problems
California educrats have been fighting higher standards in math for a long time, including last year’s proposal to require all 8th graders to take algebra by 2011.
Self-Inflicted Self Esteem
Psychologist Polly Young-Eisendrath suggests parents raise their children with the perspective that they are ordinary people living among other ordinary folks.
Messing With Markets Again
Government interference prevents the market from correcting itself, according to two Ludwig von Mises Institute authors.
U.S. Tanzania AIDS Deal
On September 2, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) announced a grant award to BIPAI of $22.5 million over five years to combat AIDS in Africa.
No Child Left Inside
HR 3036, the No Child Left Inside Act (chief author John Sarbanes, Democrat, MD), gives states and schools incentives (federal grants) to conduct “environmental education” programs within existing classes.
Unemployment Deconstructed
A page from the half-full/half empty school of economic indicator reading.
Biden Fails Again
U. S. Senator Joe Biden, D-Del., four decades after finishing his education, still fails on original scholarship, according to an actual scholar.
Getting It Right
The Dean of Faculty at the Poynter Institute argues that, while it is not necessarily a bad thing to cover racial issues, the media has been doing so improperly this election season.
Proven Value in School Choice
Just as all of the rest of the arguments which opponents have made against school choice have been proven false, another argument bites the dust.