Privacy Invasion
Radio frequency identification, or “RFID,” are microchips. They’re used to track inventory such as books, electronics, tools and pharmaceuticals. They’ve been injected in livestock. And family pets....
View ArticleTime for Schools to be Gun-free Free
If there’s anything the Newtown massacre has proven, it’s that school zones billed as “gun-free” cannot be guaranteed to thus be. They’re only virtually certain to be good-guy-gun-free. And it’s time...
View ArticleSix-year-old Suspended for Firing Assault Finger
If you want to know why we’re breeding some crazy youngsters nowadays, you only have to look at the adults surrounding them. A case in point is a Maryland elementary school that recently suspended a...
View ArticleWhen Teachers aren’t Smarter than a Fifth-grader
When I’ve written about our listing mis-education system, my focus has mainly been on rampant political correctness, on how students learn few of the right things partially because of emphasis on...
View ArticleWho Controls the Campus Agenda: The Faculty or Campus Administrators?
Faculty believe that it is their right and duty to set the campus agenda. Faculty expect to establish – either directly or indirectly – the main thrusts that their campuses will pursue. In particular,...
View ArticleGet Government Out of Student-Debt Business
As millions of students and their parents are preparing for life after commencement, they’re also preparing to deal with massive student loans. Increasingly, people are concerned about the student debt...
View ArticleTest Cheats
A recent report has confirmed that cheating in public schools is up. Way, way up. By school officials. (Examples are here, here, here, here & here.) The Government Accountability Office conducted...
View ArticleThe Great Unwashed Generation
In a recent study reported on Politico, it is said that the reason many young voters abandoned the conservatives and more specifically the GOP was because they didn’t feel they were being considered as...
View ArticleCompetition is rapidly changing college
Is the traditional college doomed? More and more people think so. Massively open online courses (MOOCs) are threatening to shake up higher education by bringing primarily non-credit courses from...
View ArticleJared Marcum
Some schools assign students to read classic novels such as George Orwell’s “1984.” At West Virginia’s Logan Middle School, officials appear to rely on 1984 as the way to run a school. They’ve adopted...
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