Archive for the 'Education' Category

May 16th 2010
You may want to consider staying instead of taking the diploma

Posted under Education

College graduates this spring are entering into a terrible job market this spring, many with degrees that may not mean much when it comes to finding that well-paying job that will provide the money to get them out of debt.

This situation is finally waking up many to the realization that perhaps there are too many kids in college and that the emphasis that was put on kids getting degrees or spending on education for the past 30 years or so has led to a world of college graduates working as shift manager at a big-box store.

The linked article made this very good point:

Ohio University economics professor Richard Vedder blames the cultural notion of “credential inflation” for the stream of unqualified students into four-year colleges. His research has found that the number of new jobs requiring college degrees is less than number of college graduates.

Vedder’s work also yielded something surprising: The more money states spend on higher education, the less the economy grows — the reverse of long-held assumptions.

“If people want to go out and get a master’s degree in history and then cut down trees for a living, that’s fine,” he said, citing an example from a recent encounter with a worker. “But I don’t think the public should be subsidizing it.”

No they shouldn’t. And if U.S. wants to revive its industrial economy, it’s going to need m0re trained engineers, millwrites and welders than MBA because persons holding those jobs are in their 60s and want to retire but can’t because their are hardly any young persons in such fields because they’re all off college vying for MBAs and English majors to land that great paying job. The problem is, a lot of good paying jobs go unfilled chasing jobs that are becoming more scarce now thanks to globalization and technology.

What the Great Recession has exposed is not only a house-of-cards economy built on debt and credit, but also one out of wack in terms of priorities and needs.

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February 4th 2010
Gates Foundation Scholarships: Whites Need Not Apply

Posted under Affirmative Action & Education & Political Correctness & Race

Like others, when I first heard the rumor that Bill Gates scholarships excluded European Americans, I thought the rumor must be an exaggeration. I was wrong. The scholarship application FAQ’s page clearly states:

Students are eligible to be considered for a GMS scholarship if they: Are African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American or Hispanic American…..

What ethnic groups comprise Asian Pacific Islander Americans?

Asian Pacific Islander Americans include persons having origin from Asia and/or the Pacific Islands. Asian includes persons having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent. Pacific Islander includes persons having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawai’i, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. Citizens of the republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau are also eligible to be nominated.

So, basically, almost anyone can apply — anyone except a white person.

As Rob Sanchez points out, this should be no surprise:

Theodore Cross, writer at the The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, wrote a paper in 1999 that discusses the history of the Bill Gates scholarship: “Bill Gates’ Gift to Racial Preferences in Higher Education“. Make no mistake, Cross thinks it’s a darn good idea that Gates discriminates against whites, and he isn’t very subtle about it either:

“Racial conservatives are correct. The huge billion-dollar Gates Millennium Scholarship program is racially discriminatory. The terms could not be cleaner. Whites may not apply!”

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January 29th 2010
The New FAIR Online University

Posted under Education & Immigration

How much do you know about immigration?

Take a look at the first three immigration module courses at the new Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) Online University.

About the university:

This new “gateway” offers facts, figures, and historical perspectives on how the immigration issue has affected the United States’ political, social, and economical realms over the past 150 years.  It also begins to offer solutions to bring about true immigration reform that serves the national interests of the United States.

FAIR has created this educational curriculum, beginning with three initial modules, and will continue to add new modules over the coming months. Once you’ve completed the three initial courses you will be prompted to download your own copy of the FAIR Online University certificate of completion.

We hope you enjoy the Online University and that you will share the information you find here with your friends and colleagues.

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August 31st 2009
Court Orders Christian Child Into Government Education

Posted under Christianity & Education & Religion

Ahhhhm, not to sound naive, but … is  this for real?

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January 24th 2009
The Darwinian Jihadists are at it Again

Posted under Academia & Culture & Education & Religion & Science

I had planned to post on this issue, but Patroon beat me to it. The issue is a clause in the Texas standards that requires the teaching of the “strengths and weaknesses” of a scientific theory. The nerve of them! How dare someone suggest that the gospel according to Darwin has weakness?

On the surface, the debate centers on a passage in the state’s curriculum that requires students to critique all scientific theories, exploring “the strengths and weaknesses” of each. Texas has stuck to that same standard for 20 years, having originally passed it to please religious conservatives. In practice, teachers rarely pay attention to it.

This year, however, a panel of teachers assigned to revise the curriculum proposed dropping those words, urging students instead to “analyze and evaluate scientific explanations using empirical evidence.”

Scientists and advocates for religious freedom say the battle over the curriculum is the tip of a spear. Social conservatives, the critics argue, have tried to use the “strengths and weaknesses” standard to justify exposing students to religious objections in the guise of scientific discourse.

I have no sympathy for the Darwinian fundamentalists here. They have done this to themselves. Instead of simply using Darwin’s theory to explain speciation and adaptation, which very few would object to, they are the ones who insist on dogmatic naturalism, materialism and scientism and suggest that Darwin’s theory eliminates the need to invoke a Creator. And then they get their panties in a wad when Christians object. Go figure.

Cross posted at the New Media Alliance blog.

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September 17th 2008
Fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener

Posted under Education & Political Correctness

Here’s what’s being done to our children in the Federalized government schools:

A 10-year-old Hilton Head Island boy has been suspended from school for having something most students carry in their supply boxes: a pencil sharpener.

The problem was his sharpener had broken, but he decided to use it anyway.

A teacher at Hilton Head Island International Baccalaureate Elementary School noticed the boy had what appeared to be a small razor blade during class on Tuesday, according to a Beaufort County sheriff’s report. …

The boy — a fourth-grader described as a well-behaved and good student — cried during the meeting with his mom, the deputy and the school’s assistant principal.

He had no criminal intent in having the blade at school, the sheriff’s report stated, but was suspended for at least two days and could face further disciplinary action.

District spokesman Randy Wall said school administrators are stuck in the precarious position between the district’s zero tolerance policy against having weapons at school and common sense.

That last paragraph can be translated as: “We’re government employees — we’re not paid to think.” Continue Reading »

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September 1st 2008
Auto mechanic for President – The phony populism of Stephan Kinsella

Posted under Academia & Conservatism & Education & Election 2008

One of the stupidiest things that has ever appeared on Lew Rockwell.com’s website is this blog post by Stephan Kinsella. I never would have thought the editors would fall for the phony populism but they did hard in this case. Yes they were trying to defend Sarah Palin from attacks by the Democrats but are doing using the same wore-out old “snob/elitist/arugula-eating” arguments popularized by their supposed enemies, the necon Republicans.

You don’t have to go to Starbucks, which I don’t by the way, to wonder if someone who’s only served two years as governor of Alaska and who over a decade ago was on the Wasilla city council, is cut out to be president. Sarah Palin may make a very good vice president, but one of the pre-requisites of the job is being capable of filling-in in case something bad happens to head man. I need not remind anyone that politicans who are not ready for the prime-time stage can hurt themselves badly. Remember Dan Quayle? As much as Jimmy Carter’s “outsider” image was appealing, his lack of Washington experience really hurt his administration. In retrospect, he would have been better served running for Congress and winning in 1966 than running for Governor of Georgia that year and losing.  A couple years in D.C. would have helped. Certainly a George W. Bush II who spent some time in his father’s administration, might have better resisted the bad advice given to him by Dick Cheyney and the neocons.  It takes a fox to know where the jackels are.

But according to Mr. Kinsella, we cannot question Ms. Palin’s experience. To do so, is “elitist” because Ms. Palin is a “woman” of the people” and only such people are qualified for national office because they are of “the people.”  Education means nothing. Skills mean nothing. Experience means nothing. Connections mean nothing. Only those who are authentically “of the people”, meaning they can shoot guns and ride snowmobiles, are qualified to hold high office. If you happen to like classical music and went to four-year university, then you are considered a snob and enemy of the “real people” like Sarah Palin, and therefore not qualified.  I didn’t realize we lived in a communist state.

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July 23rd 2008
California to Discriminate Against Christian Schools

Posted under Academia & Christianity & Education & Political Correctness

Isn’t it funny how the tolerance and diversity Gestapo is so intolerant. Notice the textbooks they are not discriminating against. The secularists know who the real enemy is, Christianity, and that is why it is Public Enemy Number One, as far as they are concerned.

IMHO, there shouldn’t be state run universities and Christian parents should certainly not voluntarily send their Christian children there, but this is still outrageous.

Arguments were heard today in a federal district court case to determine whether a state university system can dictate that private Christian schools in the state teach their college prep courses from exclusively secular, Bible- and God-free textbooks.

As WND reported earlier, the University of California system adopted a policy last year that basic science, history, and literature textbooks by major Christian book publishers wouldn’t qualify for core admissions requirements because of the inclusion of Christian perspectives.

Robert Tyler, who is representing Calvary Chapel Christian School and five students in the case against the University of California, told WND that the university’s discriminatory policy creates an ultimatum for Christian schools. “If you want courses to be approved in private education, so your students are qualified to attend (UC) institutions, you must teach from a secular point of view,” he said.

“Christian schools will have to decide: teach from a Christian worldview and eliminate your student’s ability to attend a UC school, or teach from a secular worldview, so that the kids can enter the UC school system,” he explained.

Hat tip: www.sharperiron.com

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May 26th 2008
Southern Baptist to Raise Issue of Public School Exodus Again

Posted under Christianity & Education

The last time this issue was raised the SBC rejected a call to remove Christian kids from public school. Hopefully, this time they will get it right. What more provocation do they need? Does Satan himself have to start teaching classes?

A resolution has been submitted for the upcoming business meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, which calls on parents to rescue their children from indoctrination in sexual deviancy in California’s public schools.

The resolution was submitted by Dr. Voddie Baucham, Jr., and Bruce Shortt, two well-known critics of government-run schools — or as Baucham calls them, “the pagan schools.” (See related article) It points to recent legislation approved in California, known as SB 777, mandating that all students in public schools be taught that homosexuality is normal and should not be condemned. Also, earlier this year, a three-judge panel of the California Court of Appeals determined parents in that state have no legal right to home school.

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May 12th 2008
The coming education bubble

Posted under Education

You’ve heard of the dot-com bubble, the housing bubble? Well get ready for the coming education bubble ready to be popped as this article on Takimag.com explains

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April 17th 2008
Yale Art Major Has Multiple Abortions As Part Of Senior Project

Posted under Culture & Education & Pro-Life

If we as a society cannot agree upon a definition of Art, that’s fine.

But why then should Society be compelled to subsidize something, if no one can tell us what it is?

Art major Aliza Shvarts ’08 wants to make a statement.

Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body.

Read more…

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April 8th 2008
Recent submissions by various writers

Posted under BookLog & Education & Immigration & Religion

Some recent submission from various writers to Conservative Heritage Times:

Frosty Wooldridge writes about how unlimited immigration has caused education problems.

Chuck Baldwin recommends some good books for reading.

Doug Newman writes about the failures of government education.

And Frederick Meekins offers this submission on how religious-left evangelicals will help Barack Obama:

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March 12th 2008
Of bullies and brainwashing

Posted under Culture & Education

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg educational gulag has now banned “bullying.” Schoolkids will now treat each other with compassion, equality, and respect.

I can’t believe I just typed that. 

Here’s the latest victory for progressive education:

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March 10th 2008
Wow! RINO Schwarzenegger Does Something Right

Posted under Education & Judicial Activism

In the credit where credit is due category, Arnold stands up for the rights of homeschooling parents.

Interestingly, homeschoolers have become a political powerhouse even in liberal California. People don’t mess around when it comes to their kids. 

See the post below for an explanation of what this is all about.

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March 10th 2008
California Activist Court attempts to Ban Homeschooling

Posted under Education & Judicial Activism & Political Correctness

Homeschooling parents in California received a blow this week, as California’s Second District Court of Appeals effectively banned homeschooling, by requiring parents to have “teacher certification,” which, as anyone familiar with the glaring mediocrity and sophistry of schools of “education” knows, is a joke. Forsaking ancient parental rights, California wants to mandate mediocrity and state conformity. Justice H. Walter Croskey writes that the purpose of “education” is:

“… to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare.”

1984, anyone?

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December 18th 2007
Tucker Carlson Endorses Ron Paul

Posted under Education & Ron Paul

There will probably be more news on this later, but here is an early mention.

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December 17th 2007
Small Victory for the Culture War: Homeschooler to Chair SC State Board of Education

Posted under Culture & Education & Politics

Kristin Maguire is a homeschooling mother of four who supports school vouchers. On Wednesday she was elected chairman of the SC State Board of Education by a sharply divided vote of 9-7 (voted on by board members.) Maguire was originally appointed to the board by SC Governor Mark Sanford.

This is just how we need to take our culture back: one institution at a time. Al Simpson said, “Kristin comes to the board meetings very prepared, very dedicated. I’ve never seen homeschooling enter into her decisions.” And if traditionalists and libertarians wish to take back our country, we have to appear better qualified for important positions than the alternative globalist and opportunist candidates, just as Maguire did.

Read more about this at The Greenville News.

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December 15th 2007
I’m an Academic for Ron Paul!

Posted under Education & Election 2008 & Ron Paul

Yours truly made the list. The list continues to grow. Contrary to popular belief, not everyone in academia is a leftist.

Addendum: But most still are.

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October 10th 2007
The NeoCon Lexicon

Posted under BookLog & Christianity & Classical Texts & Conservatism & Culture & Education & Europe & Free Trade & Globalism & Immigration & Interventionism & Iraq & Israel & NAU & NeoCons & Neoliberals & Political Correctness & Political Philosophy & Politics & Religion & Terrorism

Here is the inception of the NeoCon Lexicon. If you can think of any additions or corrections, please post them below, or email them to: editors[at]conservativetimes.org

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THE NEOCON DICTIONARY

The Amen Corner: The neocon’s “useful idiots,” naive Christians unknowingly committing self-destruction by backing the neocon secularist/globalist agenda.

Blood and soil: The basis of traditional patriotism, practiced by Zionist neocons, but forbidden to Christians of Anglo/European descent.

Allan Bloom: Jewish homosexual, hostile towards Christianity, died of AIDS, and author of Closing of the American Mind, which reads like “a civics textbook designed for New Deal Democrats” (Gottfried).

Neocon Calendar: Always set to 1939, where “if drastic action is not taken on X, then a second Holocaust is just around the corner.”

FDR: Hero to neocons. Soft socialism mixed with perpetual foreign war is a fine wine to the neocon pallet.

Abe Foxman: A Leftist fellow traveler, hater of Christianity, checks the right flank for the neocon by attacking real conservatives, so the neocon can further secularize and globalize the West.

Free trade: The neocon method of destroying Western economies – while making a fast buck too!

Genophilia: Instinctive attachment to family and tribe, practiced by Zionist neocons, forbidden to Christians of Anglo/European descent. Continue Reading »

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September 25th 2007
Oregon to Use Mexican Curriculum

Posted under Culture & Education & Immigration

Ugh! This is an outrage!

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