While Anita Dunn’s pro-Mao comments were shocking to many in their moral equivalency, they are not surprising to this correspondent.
Monthly Archives For October 2009
A Charter for Achievement
While bureaucrats everywhere puzzle over how to make public school test scores look good, one charter school principal has figured out how to make them go up without score keeping gimmicks.
9/11-101
September 11th, 2001 is now a part of U.S. history, and so the issue of how to teach about it in high school history classes is necessary, albeit controversial.
Progressive Lamentations
Is the government’s proper role to take care of gender inequality? Speakers believed so at the October 19, 2009 Shriver Report conference held by the Center for American Progress.
Re-Focusing Our Finger-Pointing
The Washington Post’s Sunday Outlook section contained an interesting piece by a local high school teacher on grade disparity among races.
Is the Achievement Gap Narrowing?
A recent report issued by the Center on Education Policy finds states showed narrowing achievement gaps in 4th through 12th grade in nearly three quarters of studied instances.
No Tenure @ Fox
Fox News managed to do what Columbia University could and would not―fire Marc Lamont Hill.
Planned Parenthood Laundered
Despite a clear video and print record that has emerged over the past year and a half that shows that the groups encourages underage girls to lie about their birth year and aggressively promotes abortion among blacks, Planned Parenthood continues to enjoy the support of the educational establishment.
Community Organizers Defend Dream
The energy was high at the Saturday sessions of the Defending the American Dream Summit, hosted by the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Foundation on October 3, 2009.
Change & High Hopes
Newt Gingrich was the first speaker at the Saturday session of the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Defending the American Dream Summit on October 3, 2009.