Tag Archive for ‘education’

Perpetual Education for Perpetual Indoctrination

The Obama administration already wants every child to go to preschool and everyone to go to college.  Yesterday I noticed a cover article in Time magazine taking aim at summer vacation.  It seems our leaders want all young Americans in school, all the time.  Forgive my skepticism, given the long track record of failure when it comes to policies endorsed by the educational establishment.  But there is one thing our public schools have come to excel at:  indoctrinating students in political correctness. Maybe that helps explain the current enthusiasm for perpetual education.  A generation subjected to PC brainwashing from preschool through college will have very few members who can still think for themselves.

Education ‘Reform,’ From the Top Down

By week’s end, the president and his minions hope to have bought, embarrassed or intimidated enough fellow Democrats into passing, at long last, health care “reform.” In the meantime, the White House lets us know it wants action on new national approaches to educational improvement.

Government Itself Needs an Education

Anyone who sees health policy as a trackless jungle for policymakers should take a gander at education policy as mediated by the federal government.

Campus Rebellion

It’s a story told regularly in the conservative media. A student pleads for advice: The professors at his college or university are left-wing, and he must choose between regurgitating the leftist propaganda in class discussions, term papers, exam answers, and essays for an A, or telling the truth for a low grade. What to do?

Dumbo Univeristy

As George W. Bush famously asked, “Is our children learning?”

Apparently not in the twin capitals of liberalism, D.C. and New York.

In a ranking of 50 states and D.C. by how much each spent per pupil in public schools in 2005, New York ranked first; D.C. third. The state spent $14,100, and New York City just a tad less.

Gentlemen Prefer C’s

According to a recent front-page story in the New York Times, the latest innovation of a particularly ambitious segment of the upwardly mobile American middle class is the replacement of the old-fashioned summer camp with getting-into-college camp. In proportion as the Times is ignorant of One Big Thing, its editors are highly knowledgeable about many small ones, among which the modern education rat race ranks high.