Posts Tagged Education

A rational assessment of Ayn Rand

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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What do social studies teachers talk about? My latest report

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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Bill Ayers, BACK at Georgia Southern–for academic reasons

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Mary Grabar

Bill Ayers brags in this video (see below) in the student paper that he sits on several dissertation committees at Georgia Southern.  He’s visited dozens of times.
Bill Ayers is questioned about being “disinvited” to give a speech last year.  He blames the “barbarians” with the “pitchforks.”  They objected to this unrepentant bomb-throwing co-founder of the terrorist group, [...]

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A “revolutionary change” in teacher-training?

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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PETA Curriculum

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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Dumbing Down College Admissions

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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