Welcome back to school: Public education remains vital in the U.S.
9.2.10 - Tom Wakins - Welcome back to school — words that might be dreaded by some students, but celebrated by many students, parents and teachers.
National crisis: Not much training for some special-ed teachers
9.2.10 - Standing at the front of a large, darkened room in a Capitol Avenue office building in late July, teacher-trainer Betty Menacher clicked quickly through a presentation on a highly technical but essential topic – how to assess students’ reading.Will You Promote Diversity? Virginia Tech Tests Faculty Candidates’ Commitment
9.2.10 - Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne - A major public university has fashioned a “diversity” litmus test for faculty hiring.What to Expect from the "Common Core" Curriculum NPR talk show with Michael Cohen
8.30.10 - Students head back to class this fall with a fundamentally different, yet strikingly similar, curriculum. This summer, more than 30 states adopted the Common Core Standards, a set of academic requirements in English and math that experts say will prepare students better for college and careers. But questions remain about the quality of the curriculum. We explore the standards, and look at what changes parents and students can expect.The Bill of Rights Institute Celebrates Constitution Day, September 17, 2010 with Free Resources for Teachers
9.1.10 - Arlington, VA - On September 17, 2010, the Bill of Rights Institute will celebrate Constitution Day with new educational materials for teachers across the country.How the U.S. News & World Report College Rankings Are Destroying Higher Education
8.31.10 - Bob Samuels - Even if every school criticizes the validity of the U.S. News & World Report college rating system, these institutions still spend a great deal of money and time on trying to raise their rankingsValue-added data show which Los Angeles teachers go unappreciated
8.31.10 - In Los Angeles, the best teachers often go unrecognized and unrewarded, according to an article entitled “No gold stars for successful L.A. teachers” in the Los Angeles Times. Most are scattered across the city and work in obscurity, writes Jason Felch, the article’s author. “No one asks them their secrets. Most of the time, no [...]An Interview with Jessie Poku: Nominee for Award Winning Honor
9.1.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Well, actually as I understand it, I am just a nominee at the current time, but it is an award for those athletes who involve themselves in their community. These are individuals who are putting their community before themselves. It is the Allstate AFCA Award.
How Scholarships Morphed into Financial Aid
9.2.10 - Jackson Toby - This excerpt from Jackson Toby's latest book, The Lowering of Higher Education in America: Why Financial Aid Should Be Based on Student Performance, will appear in the forthcoming fall issue of Academic Questions (vol. 23, no. 3).Knowing is Half the Battle. But It's the Easy Half.
9.2.10 - Katherine Mangu-Ward - Liberating teacher performance data is a great way to start out the school year. But it's not enough.Is Islam Indoctrination in American Schools? And is it funded by taxpayers?
9.2.10 - Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. - In recent months the American public has been made increasingly aware of a secretive foreign network of Islamic radicals that operates dozens of charter schools on U.S. soil.UC sees money in out-of-state students
9.2.10 - Ask any University of California undergrad where he comes from, and the answer - with 94 percent...Pledge beaten by sorority sisters who warned her 'snitches get stitches'...
9.2.10 - A California college student who was repeatedly beaten, punched, kicked, and paddled during a weeks-long sorority initiation that included frequent warnings that “snitches get stitches” yesterday filed a negligence lawsuit against a variety of defendants, including four sorority members who were convicted earlier this year of hazing.Suit accuses MCCCD of bias against non-citizens
8.31.10 = Community colleges sued over non-citizen hiring practices. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the Maricopa County Community College District on Monday, accusing it of discrimination for requiring extra paperwork from new employees who were not U.S. citizens.Single sex or coed? The gender agenda
9.2.10 - As another girls' school opens its doors to boys, debate erupts again over whether the sexes should mix in the classroom. By Denise Ryan.An unquestioning board of ed
9.2.10 - Sandra Stotsky - One basic principle of self-government is still alive at local school committee meetings. Committee members, parents, and others argue in public about whatever the superintendent is proposing on matters of curriculum, learning, and teaching.Will Texas oil firms succeed in undoing California greenhouse gas laws?
9.2.10 - Texas oil firms are backing a ballot initiative that would repeal the state's landmark 2006 greenhouse-gas reduction law. The mayor of Los Angeles is rallying Hispanic groups against the initiative.Eco-terrorists: Ready to Kill for Their Cause?
8.30.10 - Patrick Richardson - A string of arson fires and material found during an arrest point to "animal rights" groups now being willing to kill for their goals.Obama Labor Dept Shill Praises Hugo Chavez, Tells Students ‘Republicans Hate Latinos’
9.2.10 - Democratic Socialists of America's Honorary Chairperson Dolores Huerta was used by the Obama Labor Department in advertisements instructing illegal aliens to fight for fair wages. In this recently uncovered audio, Ms. Huerta is speaking to high school students and praising the virtues of Hugo Chavez' Venezuela.200 dead, women raped, slave children: But Zimbabwe's £1.2bn gems are 'NOT blood diamonds'
8.12.10 - Heavily armed police and soldiers guarded top security vaults at Harare airport, where several private jets brought buyers from Israel, India, Lebanon and Russia.Mexico: tales from an armed city
9.2.10 - Paramilitaries with automatic weapons have blockaded the entrance to an indigenous town. OAXACA CITY, Mexico — In San Juan Copala, paramilitaries from nearby towns violently rebuff would-be visitors. A blockade of large rocks prevents anyone from crossing into town.China to vaccinate 100 M children against measles
9.2.10 - Foreigners living in China will be covered by a nationwide measles immunization campaign, which targets children mainly between 8 months and 4 years of age, the Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.France: Hijab and the City
9.2.10 - Being French and Muslim doesn't mean a girl can't have fun. PARIS, France — The youngest of six children, all born in France to Moroccan parents, Mariame Tighanimine was in her last year of high school when the 2004 act was passed prohibiting the "conspicuous" display of religious symbols (including the veil) in French state schools.This could be Nature's greatest superfood
9.2.10 - Black rice - revered in ancient China but overlooked in the West - could be one of the greatest "superfoods", scientists say.Karzai in panic as graft probe closes in
9.2.10 - Jean MacKenzie - An FBI-backed anti-corruption team has struck too close for the Afghan president's comfort.‘Islamization’ of Paris a Warning to the West
9.2.10 - PARIS – Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force.Hamas thugs slay 4 to show what they think of peace talks
9.2.10 - Hamas gunmen murdered a pregnant woman and three other Jewish settlers in a brazen and bloody West Bank attack last night on the eve of the kickoff of President Obama's Mideast peace push. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu --...Car Czar's Tell-All Book Pulls No Punches On Rahm, Geithner, Summers, Bair
9.2.10 - Marcus Baram - In "Overhaul", his upcoming chronicle of his reign as "car czar," Steven Rattner offers an insider's account of the Obama administration's rescue of the auto industry. And he pulls no punches when it comes to describing the foibles of such heavyweights as Rahm Emanuel, Tim Geithner, Larry Summers and Sheila Bair.Venezuelans Will End Up Living Hand to Mouth
9.2.10 - This Tuesday, Hugo Chávez announced another absurdity product of the heating up of the election campaign: that the government is to issue a “good living card.”Political
Political Opinions | Society | Terrorism | Immigration | Media | Big Brother | Political Correct | Political ReleasesRep. Maxine Waters family profiting from mailer biz
9.2.10 - Rep. Maxine Waters has turned political endorsements into a family business, using federal election laws to charge California candidates and political causes to include their names as her personal picks on a sample ballot, or "slate mailer," she sends to as many as 200,000 South Central Los Angeles voters, records show.Joe Joins The Food Police
8.31.10 - On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough declares that he favors forcing all restaurants to put calorie counts on their menus.Felons by the thousands among infiltrating hordes
8.31.10 - Documentary also uncovers alarming link between illegal aliens and radical Islamists. Tens of thousands of convicted felons, including murderers and sex offenders, regularly are breaching the United States national boundary along just one section of the shared line with Mexico, according to a revealing new documentary called "Southern Exposure: Battle for the Border."Follow the Money II: Could Mayor Bloomberg’s Media Business Interests in the Middle East Have Anything to Do with His Support of the Ground Zero Mosque?
9.2.10 - Mondo Frazier - Michael Bloomberg has had a busy summer. The NYC Mayor has been waging a pitched battle against the 71% of New Yorkers who want the Cordoba House mosque moved from its present site. That event has gotten plenty of media coverage.Schools remove swingsets, blame litigious parents...
9.2.10 - CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Elementary school playgrounds in one West Virginia county are losing their swing sets. Swings are being removed from Cabell County schools in southern West Virginia in part because of lawsuits over injuries.Things the President Left Out of His Big Speech
9.1.10 - Michael Collins - I just read the presidents big speech tonight and it struck me. There were some key lines left out of the speech. You may have had the same response. For the sake of clarity and fairness, I’ve tried to reconstruct the missing lines.August 9 Rally: Tell President Obama and the Democrats to Keep Their Hands Off Texas!
August 9 Rally: Tell President Obama and the Democrats to Keep Their Hands Off Texas! Austin Rally to Protest President's Policies On Monday, August 9, President Obama will visitIn Every Case in History, Slaves are Disarmed
9.1.10 - RTAmerica | The United States constitution says that every citizen has the right to own and carry arms.Six Year Terrible Anniversary: Beslan Jihad
8.31.10 - From the days of Prophet Muhammad, sexual terror has been an integral part of Islamic Jihad. The siege of the Beslan School by Islamic Jihadis in 2004 was no exception as reveals Dr. Schurman-Kauflin. -- Editor, MA Khan- SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Inside Yemen, the latest training ground for Al Qaeda - and the most dangerous place on the planet
- ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: Imam Rauf's Sharia Puppets: Madeleine Albright "is now pushing [my] ideas in many places, she is in constant communication with me, and on the issue of Hamas, America should really engage with them"