Learning To Cheat

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  April 5th at 12:00 PM  | 

Guess who America’s new role model is? Her name is Beverly Hall. She is Atlanta’s former Superintendent of Schools. She is dynamic – a mover, a shaker, an achiever and a total and utter fraud. On April 2, 2013, her deception came to a final end. She and 34 other co-conspirators have been indicted for rigging the standardized test scores dating all the way back to 2001.

Not only has she destroyed the trust and honor in the Atlanta School System, she has obviously spawned copy-cats. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia’s municipal schools are also rife with cheating conspiracies. Here is the latest in brotherly love and deceit.

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Winners cheat, nobody should lose, and the State will make everything fair

By: John Hayward  |  March 21st at 03:57 PM  | 

Forward-thinking principle David Fabrizio of Ipswich Middle School finds himself in hot water for taking the “progressive” ethos to its absurd extremes: he canceled Honors Night because it makes the kids who didn’t earn honors feel bad. “The Honors Night, which can be a great sense of pride for the recipients’ families, can also be devastating to a child who has worked extremely hard in | Read More »

Obama Pushes Universal Pre-K Despite Evidence it Hurts Children

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  February 21st at 10:00 AM  | 

On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Joy Pullmann to discuss universal pre-k, evidence it actually hurts children and a negative HHS study delivered four years late after the 2012 election.

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Is Education Spending Intelligent?

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  February 6th at 11:00 AM  | 

If you read enough media, you’ll occasionally see something interesting. This morning two intelligent people wrote editorials on education and I found myself unsure whether I agreed with either. Perhaps I’m not as think as I stoned I am. Who knows? But in an era of tightening resources, hard choices have to be made. Educational spending will have to be included in the pile of reducible expenditures, so perhaps hearing out both Michelle Rhee and Jonah Goldbergwill help give us a better sense of what could work.

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The Evangelists’ Failure

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  December 13th at 11:30 PM  | 

Somewhere in America this week, Protestant Christ followers will donate money to fund missionaries. The offering for the Lottie Moon fund will be collected. Mission to the World will get a check. The Foreign Mission Board will be funded and prayed for. The Salvation Army bell will be rung. Around the nation, Evangelical America will, throughout the year, hear tales of their missions, missionaries, and | Read More »

Investigation Unearths Inappropriate Emails Sent From Douglas County (Colo.) School Accounts

By: Kyle Forti (Diary)  |  September 18th at 04:29 PM  | 

Teachers and administrators who work for the Douglas County (Colo.) School District (DCSD) used taxpayer-funded government e-mail accounts to illegally campaign for specific political candidates and ballot initiatives, according to e-mails obtained by Media Trackers Colorado.

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Waiting For Superman In The Windy City

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  September 17th at 03:00 PM  | 

We all know who could settle the current public school teacher strike in Chicago. Karen Lewis tells us the delegates could settle it by this Wednesday, provided they like the latest proposal from the Mayor. Mayor Emanuel tells us the strike is illegal and the Cook County Circuit Court could order the work stoppage unclogged with a flourish of the judicial pen. The parents of 350,000 children, who sit at home and in some cases unsupervised, thought they had elected Mayor Emanuel to deal with this sort of situation. Yet one man could make one or two phone calls and turn this whole thing off like a light. Unfortunately, that chair sits empty.

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Voters Want Less Government. Will GOP Communicate to Them?

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  August 27th at 03:02 PM  | 

Amidst the torrent of polling data on an array of political races and policy issues, it is easy to lose focus on the central point of contention in today’s world of politics.  The fundamental disagreement between the right and the left is over the proper role of government.  The left feels that government should control virtually every aspect of our economy and our lives – | Read More »

Back To School Blues

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 27th at 03:00 PM  | 

….the US educational system is failing because it has a confused goal. It is too many things to too many people. To most parents, it’s free daycare. To sociologists, it’s a way to keep kids off the streets. To others it’s a chance for government subsidy to right social wrongs. Many view it as a force for equality. What is missing is a simple statement like “our goal is to offer education to those who can take advantage of it.”

(HT: Brett Stevens, Amerika.org)

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Shared Prosperity

By: Dan Bongino (Diary)  |  August 23rd at 01:42 PM  | 

[Dan Bongino is the GOP candidate for Senate in Maryland] Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards once stated during his campaign that there were “two Americas.” His “two Americas” theme was designed to stoke the flames of a class warfare script being resurrected in 2012 for use in the Democratic Party platform. This class warfare, “two Americas” theme has been given a focus-group tested makeover | Read More »

Nobody Is Better Off Without ‘Em

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 23rd at 12:30 PM  | 

The National Institute for Literacy estimates that 47 percent of adults in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate, with staggering rates recorded in some of the suburbs as well: Southfield at 24 percent, Warren at 17 percent and both Inkster and Pontiac at 34 percent illiterate. (HT: Detroit Regional Workforce Fund) I was just kidding with the provocative subtitle. The South should not rise | Read More »

Things That Threaten Our Children

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 9th at 02:00 PM  | 

Daffyd over at The Big Lizards Blog begins an excellent post on some of the problems of Modern Leftism with a timely reprint of the opening paragraph of the Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. short story Harrison Bergeron. THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody | Read More »

The Myth of Slashed Education Funding

By: Kevin Holtsberry (Diary)  |  July 12th at 10:10 AM  | 

No matter where you live I am sure you have heard the same argument I hear continually: “Republicans are slashing spending and hurting kids.” Health care, education, you name it, this is the refrain. The problem? It’s not true. In May I offered a chart that highlighted how spending is not the path to growth.  Today I want to focus on education.  Look at the | Read More »

The Tyranny of Straight A’s

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  May 29th at 12:00 PM  | 

Across a wide range of schools, As represent 43% of all letter grades, an increase of 28 percentage points since 1960 and 12 percentage points since 1988. Ds and Fs total typically less than 10% of all letter grades. Private colleges and universities give, on average, significantly more As and Bs combined than public institutions with equal student selectivity. (HT:Mark J. Perry) Hey! You wannna | Read More »

The Ultimate Treachery

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  April 28th at 10:47 PM  | 

I’m at a loss for words; I’m really not sure what to think of this. What word would you use to describe someone from party A asking members of party B to vote down a member of party A for supporting a fundamental view of party A? Politico’s Maggie Haberman is reporting that the leadership-affiliated Young Guns Network has sent out mailers asking Democrats to | Read More »