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Category Archives: Education
Academic “Diversity”
Diversity trumps all, except when it comes to political views. Then all that matters is conformity.
Which One Is The Teacher?
Winning Wars
Can we do it any more?
Not when the leadership of one of the major parties sees US weakness in the world as a feature rather than a bug.
The Unteachables
What our “self-esteem” movement and the public schools have wrought. It’s been over thirty years since that commission on education issued the report that said that if a foreign power had imposed this educational system on us, we would rightly consider it an act of war. It’s true today more than ever.
Spending Other Peoples’ Money
This is the kind of stupidity that occurs:
It didn’t make sense to buy the same size routers for a 1,800-student high school and a 100-student elementary school, according to administrators in the Department of Education’s technology division. The state is distributing 471 of the high-priced routers to schools.
“The WVDE asked if the size of the routers could vary based on the needs of a school,” said Liza Cordeiro, spokeswoman for the Department of Education. “At that time, it is our understanding that, for consistency and future expansion, the plan was to buy all the same size.”
Gianato said putting the same size router in every school was about “equal opportunity.”
“We wanted to make sure a student in McDowell County had the same opportunities as a student in Kanawha County or anywhere else,” he said. “A student in a school of 200 students should have the same opportunity as a student in a school with 2,000 students.”
Technologically illiterate idiocy.
Diversity Training
It doesn’t extinguish prejudice — it promotes it.
Students Don’t Need Cheaper Loans
They need better educations.
The Death Of The Hockey Stick?
I have a report on the latest FOIA results, over at PJMedia. And yes, I know it’s dioxide, not monoxide. I’m trying to get it fixed.
[Update a few minutes later]
Trenberth’s heat remains missing.
Free Internships
Are they moral?
Actually, what I think is immoral is some third party (e.g., the government) telling someone what they are allowed to earn in a freely negotiated contract (that is, the minimum wage is immoral, and empirically destructive of the lives of minorities, as Sowell has documented). It seems a little strange that you can pay someone nothing, but you can’t pay them four bucks an hour, even if they’re a teenager who needs some spending money and is willing to take that wage.