Posted on February 13, 2010 by Mary Grabar
Relevant to Them
Will Fitzhugh
The Concord Review
6 February 2010
North Carolina has proposed dropping the teaching of United States History before 1877
for its public high school students. Quite a number of U.S. History teachers have argued
for years that they should have two years for the subject, but North Carolina has just
dropped Year One.
One argument they advance [...]
Posted on February 12, 2010 by Mary Grabar
Does anyone doubt that most teachers are dumb? With apologies to my friends who are high school teachers, I have to say that as far as the majority goes, I have not met a more lemming-like group of people. I spent a couple days with them at the National Council for the Social Studies and [...]
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Posted on February 10, 2010 by Mary Grabar
Cathy Young presents one of the most reasonable assessments of Ayn Rand as her birthday passes. Atlas Shrugs has some great passages, some great jabs at the left. But parts of it are very disturbing, and Cathy points them out. (Oh, and the sex scenes just parody themselves.) It seems that many of Ayn Rand’s [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2010 by Mary Grabar
Here in my report on the National Council for the Social Studies convention I reveal how social studies teachers openly discuss strategies for indoctrinating children while earning continuing education and graduate credit…thanks to you, the taxpayers. Pictured here (at the 2008 Democratic National Convention) is Obama’s sister, “peace educator” Maya-Ng, who had to postpone her [...]
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