Read the description at Legal Insurrection of what’s happening these days at NYC’s Dalton School. It’s worth taking a look at the entire article, the gist of which is that it appears this exclusive private school is in the process … Continue reading →
The school system in Burbank, California has added the following five books to its “banned in Burbank” list: Until further notice, teachers in the area will not be able to include on their curriculum Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, … Continue reading →
What could possibly go wrong?: [NYC] Chancellor Richard Carranza’s new grading policy bars failing grades. Students will be marked “in progress” or “incomplete,” even if they’ve done no work at all, writes Sanzi. Excelsior!
Continue reading →Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it: This year’s study showed increased favorability of the term ‘socialism’ (49%) among Gen Z compared to 2019 (40%). Opinions of capitalism declined slightly from 2019 to 2020 among all … Continue reading →
Gilley, a political science professor at Portland State University, is a profile in courage: “I attribute the ease and suddenness of my latest [book publishing] cancellation to this year’s Black Lives Matter moral panic. It has taken cultural totalitarianism to … Continue reading →
So fascinating. Some excerpts: [In the 18th Century in the US] Both elementary education and higher education taught the classical world, but for different reasons. For the vast majority, whose only access was to elementary education, the ancient world was … Continue reading →
Well, well, well. Yesterday Trump made quite an announcement: On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that he would sign an executive order to launch a “1776 Commission” for American patriotism in education, countering the Marxist critical race theory of The … Continue reading →
Thinking more about the video I posted yesterday, I noticed this comment by “John Tyler”: No point in really in trying to understand what motivates the adherents of wokeness, Nazism, communism, ANTIFA’ism, BLM’ism, etc. , because any sentient carbon based … Continue reading →
Interesting: Trump Orders Purge of ‘Critical Race Theory‘ from Federal Agencies https://t.co/ygXcTXRHsQ via @BreitbartNews This is a sickness that cannot be allowed to continue. Please report any sightings so we can quickly extinguish! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, … Continue reading →
Commenter “Art Deco” writes (the first paragraph is a quote from a previous commenter}: “The point is that Leftist[s] are motivated by guilt towards blacks. And they demand other whites share in their guilt by mongering.” Rubbish. People who actually … Continue reading →
Let’s keep changing history until we get it right – I mean left – enough: From Rep. Ford’s press release: “Rep. Ford Today in Evanston to Call for the Abolishment of History Classes in Illinois Schools “Concerned that current school … Continue reading →
This new book by John M. Ellis certainly deals with a topic that’s timely – or actually, somewhat behind the times, because the damage the left has done to education has already been so great. Apparently, the last section of … Continue reading →