The Fordham Institute, an organization I admire for its work in education policy, has given the Texas public education social studies standards adopted by the State Board of Education a grade of D and criticized the standards for rigor and clarity as well as a political agenda that biased the curriculum from a leftist orientation […]
Archives for March 2011
It’s 1989 in the Middle East
For the first time in 1,000 years Arabs are taking control of their own affairs.–Farheed Zakaria Dare we say that the explosion of freedom in the Middle East and North Africa might be the equivalent of the fall of the Berlin Wall? We can pray that it is at least as eventful and we should […]
This is Much More Than a Math Problem
As we watch the scene in the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison, we are exposed to the raw truth of where liberalism has led us–to the fraud of the “social contract” as it has evolved in the age of entitlement. The wraps are off, the facade is down, Paul Krugman for once is right–it is […]
Americans Can Handle It
Two issues in the news lately have once again highlighted our propensity to judicial activism. One, the Obama administration announced that it will no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act; the other involves the Supreme Court decision in favor of Westboro Baptist Church in its public desecration of military funerals. I won’t spend much […]
The Last Bastion of Multicultural Mythology
First, it was German Chancellor Angela Merkel, then French President Nicolas Sarkozy who denounced the philosophy of multiculturalism as a failure, and finally the most ringing critique of all from British Prime Minister David Cameron who, in a recent speech to the Munich Security Conference, not only denounced it, but put the issue squarely on […]
The New Religion
If you are like me, there are certain “buzzwords” or phrases that enter the lexicon periodically that begin to get on my nerves after awhile. “Best practices” in education is one of these. And now the word “sustainability” is near the top of my list. Where did this term originate in its current social context? […]