Posted on October 22, 2009 by Mary Grabar
SOCIALISM! As I was teaching “The Speech” last night it struck me that in 1964 Ronald Reagan was not afraid of using the S word. Yet, “conservative” (by Daily Kos standards) columnist Kathleen Parker, in a column likening Glenn Beck’s program to a “sideshow,” cited a count of the number of times Glenn Beck used [...]
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Posted on October 22, 2009 by Mary Grabar
What does Arne Duncan mean? Would it be a revolution away from the revolution, instituted by the likes of Bill Ayers? That would be a good thing. But the speech will be made at Columbia Teachers College, Ayers’ alma mater, and the epicenter for training teachers in bringing about the (communist) revolution, as I’ve written [...]
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Posted on October 21, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Here is one professor weighing in in a forum called “Brainstorm” on the number one issue facing America today: race, specifically, racism in the form of one isolated Justice of the Peace refusing to marry an interracial couple….and Rush Limbaugh. The professor in typical humorless fashion ignores the origins of the “magic negro” comment, and [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2009 by Mary Grabar
I had been working on this in-depth report for a while, and was glad to make my debut on Big Government.com with it. (They’re the folks who brought you the undercover videos of ACORN employees offering business tips to actors posing as pimp and prostitute.) Those interested in education might want to know that PETA [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Inside Higher Ed reports that such factors as test scores, grades, and class rank played a less significant role in college admissions in 2008 than they did in 2007. NACAC (National Association for College Admissions Counseling), an organization incapable (or unwilling to) of putting together a coherent report, as I concluded in my own articles [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Even at the University of Chicago, a place known for serious study as far back as the 1990s, long after the Ivys had succumbed to the intellectual vacuity of political correctness.
Chicago Tribune story via Pamela Geller.
History reminder: The universities of Germany were hothouses of Anti-Semitism in the 1930s.
Posted on October 17, 2009 by Mary Grabar
More moral equivalency by CNN in reporting on the Glenn Beck segment that exposed White House Communications Director Anita Dunn’s commencement speech for St. Andrews Episcopal School at the National Cathedral; there she praised Mao Tse-Tung and Mother Theresa as her “heroes.” The CNN article uses Media Matters as a source to say that Republicans [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Inside Higher Ed reports Stimulus for Humanities Job Market. A newly minted Ph.D. can earn a nice $50,000 a year salary, with a $5,000 research stipend, health insurance, and moving expenses—for teaching 3 classes all year. Such an award of course will vaunt the new Ph.D. into the coveted position of tenure—which for the politically [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Not less than a month after ACTA gave the University of Georgia a “B” for maintaining a core curriculum, the Board of Regents has announced plans to water down it down. As I noted in my Pajamas Media column, today’s teachers can turn English 101 into an indoctrination session (and most do to a certain [...]
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