The World Hijab Day website presents hijab-wearing as a sign of empowerment; women and girls who wear hijabs are called “queens, princesses, and sultanas.” One blog post by Megan Baase, however, reveals that experimental hijab-wearing may have other effects. Baase writes that she didn’t know much about Islam until World Hijab Day. After reading about […]
According to Jack Oliver, legislative director of Floridians for Immigration Enforcement, Senate Bill 744 would have given work permits and legalization to over 11 million illegal aliens, doubled authorized immigration to 22 million over the next decade, and added millions to welfare and entitlement rolls. Oliver called it “amnesty first and a promise for enforcement […]
The Big Government-Big Education alliance has also had positive trickle-down effects for professors, who have benefited with publishing contracts and grants for their institutions. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the biggest funder of Common Core, continues to support universities that help in implementing their education initiatives. Professors hopped on the Common Core gravy train […]
This month, to relatively little outrage or public notice, Oregon State University is holding segregated “diversity” sessions for students, staff, and faculty. At “retreats,” students and faculty will learn about identity and micro-agressions (for example: expressing a belief in merit, wearing an offensive Halloween costume, or having someone feel like she does not belong). The […]
We close out the year with more protests and demands than ever, as our intellectuals engage in more and more “conversations” about race. The protests spilled over to restaurants and shopping venues, even as Americans celebrated Christmas. The incubators are the schools and college campuses, where students are taught about injustices invisible to the common […]
In 2015, leftists in the media and academia began criticizing the leftist mobs seeking to shut them down. Kirsten Powers, the left-of-center commentator at Fox News, came out with a book titled, The Silencing: How the Left Is Killing Free Speech. Northwestern University film professor Laura Kipnis, after being slapped with a Title IX lawsuit […]
The “Every Child Succeeds Act,” signed into law on December 10, gave all the usual suspects in big government, teachers unions, multinational textbook companies, social justice warriors, and busybody non-profits wanting a piece of the universal preschool funding pie cause for celebration. Today, the Department of Education sent out a notice about taking “First Steps […]
A bill over a thousand pages long is drafted behind closed doors and given a nice-sounding name. The chair of the Senate committee, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, announces on November 18 that the conference report, which is finished, will not be available for reading until November 30. The House vote will be two, at most […]
Are you curious about how the crazy new convoluted Common Core math problems came about? Ever wonder why high school students are reading EPA standards in English class? Want to read a book full of suspense about backroom deals, MOU’s (Memorandums of Understanding), CCSSO licensing agreements, NGA funding, and secret handshakes? That reveals who and […]
One, two, three, four! What are we protesting for? There seems to be some confusion on campuses across the nation. But we do know that so far groups on 73 campuses have joined the Black Liberation Collective and issued “demands.” Like a lover’s spat gone on too long, the aggrieved party hardly knows what it […]
On October 24, 2015, the Obama administration condemned “over-testing” in schools. It called for a cap on testing, limiting it to two percent of a child’s class time. It called on Congress to enact this cap and on teachers to “step back and make tests less onerous and more purposeful.” This accompanied the release of […]
On October 20 President Obama, through the Department of Education, took another heavy-booted step in unlawfully transforming America by announcing the release of a 63-page “resource guide” to help educators, school leaders and community organizations better support “undocumented youth,” including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. The “deferred action” does not create legal status, […]
As noted in my last post, outgoing Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has done his part to transform America through K-12 education. This has happened through Common Core and by expanding the Department’s reach into younger and older cohorts. Duncan got the promise for an additional $1 billion for preschool education. As the Chronicle of […]
Much has been written about Arne Duncan’s surprise announcement on October 2 that he would be leaving his post as Secretary of Education. A longtime friend of Barack Obama from Chicago, Duncan has also been the longest-serving member of the Obama Cabinet. Duncan’s announcement came only days after a glowing profile in Politico described Duncan’s […]
Alas, my requests for more information from Planned Parenthood regarding how such activities as the one I observed on September 17, 2015, at Hamilton College, as well as their national “Pink Out” Day on September 29, fit into their own or educational institutions’ missions, were ignored by Beth LeGere, Director of Public Affairs, Planned Parenthood […]