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Overwhelming Bipartisan Support for School Choice in Arizona Continues to Grow
/in Education, Liberty, Politics /by Matt BeienburgArizona voters are asking lawmakers to lead on Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESAs), and their voices just got louder. The state’s ESA program—which allows families to use a portion of the state dollars allotted for their children to pay for private tuition, tutors, and other teaching tools—has transformed thousands of lives both before and during the pandemic. For […]
Public Kindergarten Enrollment is Plummeting—Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing
/in Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)Children not enrolled in public kindergarten are not ‘missing.’ Their parents know exactly where they are. Public school enrollment has consistently declined across most states this academic year, and there are new signs that the trend will continue this fall. On Thursday, New York City’s education department reported that kindergarten applications for the 2021/2022 school year dropped 12 percent, […]
CNN Versus Biological Reality
/in Culture Wars, Education, Healthcare /by Jennifer BilekThe media and medical industrial complex’s drive to deconstruct sex CNN stated last week that human sexual dimorphism, biological reality, is disputed. You really need to take a moment to let that settle on you. CNN is owned by Warner Media, which is owned by AT&T, a multinational conglomerate and communications network with a net worth of $266 […]
Chinese Propaganda Group Has Spent Years Cozying Up To Black Colleges
/in Education, National Security, News, Politics /by Chuck RossA think tank that U.S. officials consider a Chinese influence agent has cultivated ties to Historically Black Colleges and Universities [HBCUs] since 2014. The China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) has paid a consultant nearly $670,000 since 2017 to arrange student visits from the schools to China, as well as to make introductions to members of the […]
Selling Terrorism Through Nonprofits
/in Education, National Security, News /by Sarah LeeAs the U.S. tries to grapple with how—and how much—funding is used to promote anti-American propaganda within the U.S., the Confucius Institutes have attracted an enormous amount of attention. The Confucius Institutes are ostensibly Chinese language and cultural events institutes scattered throughout U.S. on university campuses and even in K–12 schools. They been increasingly deemed influence-peddling […]
Tucson’s Best Export
/in Culture Wars, Education /by Craig J. CantoniTUCSON – A recent story in the Arizona Daily Star mentioned Tucson’s best export. No, the story wasn’t about the talented young people who leave Tucson for better opportunities elsewhere, due to a dearth of opportunities in their hometown— which in turn is due to decades of Tucson chasing industry away. Talented young people are […]
Will The Real Liberals Please Stand Up?
/in Culture Wars, Education, Liberty, National Security, Politics /by Neland NobelDennis Prager, perhaps the most cerebral of talk show hosts, makes the distinction between being a “Liberal” and being a “Leftist.” That distinction is important as we observe how far to the Left the Democrat Party has moved away from its ideological moorings. As an illustration, let’s look at what most of us thought a […]
School Districts That Turned Their Backs on Parents and Students Are Now Paying the Price
/in Culture Wars, Economy, Education /by Arizona Free Enterprise ClubGilbert Public Schooled notified 152 certified staff member that they would be without jobs for the 2021-2022 school year. And the announcement sent shock waves throughout Arizona’s public school districts. Somehow, they didn’t see it coming. Last week, Gilbert Public Schools, one of the largest school districts in Arizona, notified 152 certified staff members that […]
New Census Data Show Homeschooling Tripled During the Pandemic—And One Key Group is Driving the Surge
/1 Comment/in Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Education, News /by Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)Once they experience the full freedom and flexibility of homeschooling, many parents and children won’t ever want to return to a coercive classroom. My daughter had a friend over this week whose parents just took her out of public school for homeschooling, and my neighbor recently unenrolled her child from public school to homeschool for […]
Are Schools The Beacon of the Destruction of America?
/in Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science, Waste, Fraud and Abuse /by Karen Schoen“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes, the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.” – Thomas Jefferson It is very difficult to understand the deep roots of communism in our Florida schools because the “educators” are very careful not to use word communism. The American approach to education uses the scientific method […]
The Godfather of Climate Skepticism Makes You a Book You Can’t Refuse
/in Culture Wars, Education, Environment, Politics /by Joe BastardiThere are a lot of great books out there on why there is skepticism about climate, simply from a scientific point of view. This is not only warranted by the very nature of science itself, which is to question but makes effective counters to the settled science ideas. The debate over the drivers of climate […]
Profs Help Push Program That Claims Math Is ‘Racist’ Because It Requires A ‘Right Answer’
/in Culture Wars, Education, Liberty /by Wyatt EichholzAn Oregon Department of Education newsletter from February promoted an online course designed to “dismantle” instances of “white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom.” One example of “white supremacy” highlighted by the course was “the concept of mathematics being purely objective,” an idea which the resource stated is “is unequivocally false.” The program, known as “A Pathway […]
The Real Purpose of ‘Cancel Culture’
/in Culture Wars, Education, Liberty, Politics /by Alexandra YorkA culture is far deeper than politics. It’s a national identity encompassing history, education, arts and entertainment, science, health, relationships … everything constituting the core values of any country. Individualism has traditionally been the common denominator anchoring all other aspects of America’s cultural distinctiveness. Valuing sovereignty of the individual makes American culture exceptional; therefore, “Cancel […]
Florida Republican Rep. Says Gov. DeSantis Is Right To Ban Critical Race Theory From Schools
/in Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by The Daily CallerRepublican Florida Rep. Byron Donalds reaffirmed his support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ critical race theory ban from the state’s new civics curriculum. “There’s no room in our classrooms for critical race theory. Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money,” DeSantis said during […]
VIDEO: DeSantis slams critical race theory and says it will have no place in Florida classrooms — ‘Not worth one red cent’
/in Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Education, News, Politics /by Pamela GellerWatch. If America’s voting system is not federalized by the Democrats, then Governor Ron DeSantis can be elected POTUS in 2024. Gov. @RonDeSantisFL announces Florida's curriculum will "expressly exclude…Critical Race Theory." “There's no room in our classrooms for things like Critical Race Theory. Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is […]
Will California Schools Mandate Pagan Religion?
/in Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion, Waste, Fraud and Abuse /by Jerry NewcombeIn California schools, it would seem that Jesus is out, but worshiping human-sacrifice-requiring Aztec deities may soon be in. In a 1996 book I wrote with D. James Kennedy, The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail, which dealt with today’s anti-Christian bias, we noted the following: “San Jose, California. City officials built a statue of […]
Kentucky’s Berea College Hosts Event Calling ‘Trumpism’ a Form of Terrorism
/in Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse /by Robert SpencerThe left’s effort to demonize and criminalize all opposition to its sinister agenda is advancing rapidly, and so the news out of Kentucky’s Berea College on Friday, as outrageous as it was, came as no surprise. Fox News reported that Berea “is scheduled to host an event critical of Donald Trump and associating the former president […]
Learning From Failure – Get in the Fight Now!
/in Culture Wars, Education, Liberty, Politics /by The EditorsIt has often been said that you learn more from failure than from success. We don’t doubt the wisdom in that observation. So, if it is true, we need to look at the state of American Conservatism today. This is the movement that supports the Constitution, the ideas of limited government, personal liberty, personal responsibility, […]
Opposition is Rising to Teacher Union-Mandated Shutdowns
/in Education, Politics /by Thomas SandRefusing to accept responsibility for Covid-related lockdowns, the American Federation of Teachers tars Republicans. In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, a Republican, correctly blamed the nation’s teachers unions for the overwrought Covid-related lockdowns that have strangled public education throughout much of the country. The American Federation of Teachers took umbrage at the […]
Rep. Andy Biggs Says Follow the Science, Open Schools
/in Culture Wars, Education, Healthcare, Liberty, News /by Rachel del GuidiceIt’s past time to open schools, Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., says. “The percentages for teachers or students is really, really low,” Biggs, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, says of the risk of contracting COVID-19. “In Florida, they’re playing sports.” “The flip side of it, of course, is this isolation, this online learning, this basic […]
TENNESSEE: Somali Students Ripped-Off College to the Tune of $114,000
/2 Comments/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Immigration, Waste, Fraud and Abuse /by Ann CorcoranJust so you know that Minnesota isn’t the only place in America where refugee contractors and the US State Department salted a Somali population, Tennessee got them too! This is the kind of story I was thinking about when I first began this blog! To counter the ‘new American’ fluff stories I wanted to show […]
KENTUCKY: Berea College Hosting Event Describing ‘White Citizenship’ and ‘Trumpism’ as Terrorism
/in Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse /by Robert SpencerMeanwhile, it is a 100% certainty, not 99%, but 100%, that Berea College administrators and professors would recoil in horror at the prospect of hosting an event focusing on the threat of jihad violence and Sharia oppression. In the extraordinarily unlikely off-chance that such an event were scheduled, it would be inundated with charges of […]
Columbia University Hosts 6 Different Commencements SEGREGATED BY RACE, Sexuality, Income Level
/in Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by Pamela GellerOne Geller Reader reader points out, ‘Continuing with your report of the Biden DOE’s reversal of Trump’s determination that ‘racial affinity groups’ were a form of segregation, see this story on all the separate graduation ceremonies that Columbia Univ promotes. If anyone there had proposed something like this 25, 30 yrs ago, their job fitness would have […]
On ‘People of Color’ and ‘Systemic Racism’ — And Why I Am Sick of Hearing It
/in Culture Wars, Education, Politics /by Dov FischerI am sick of it. I really am sick of it. I understand, better than most, what prejudice is. When I was a boy, I went bowling with friends. Someone else put chewed gum on my seat as a practical joke. I did not see it, and I sat on it. It ruined my pants. […]
VIDEO: Why Does Any Conservative Want their Kids in Public Schools?
/1 Comment/in Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by Ann Corcoran[T]he new “education threat” is “a one-two punch that combines Alinskyite community organizing with woke education based on Critical Race Theory.” – Stanley Kurtz I have been puzzled for months when I hear from just about any conservative media a demand to get kids back in school during this Chinese virus ‘crisis.’ Even our […]
I Do Not Like This Woke Flimflam
/in Culture Wars, Education, Liberty, News, Politics /by Matt PurpleThe left bans books by Dr. Seuss and Ryan Anderson, showing they’ve become more theocratic than progressive. When I was a boy in school, we were often encouraged to read banned books. Back then, to censor anyone was about the least hip thing you could do, the province of the glowering churchman and the cordless […]
A Different Homage to Rush
/in Culture Wars, Education, Liberty, Politics /by Bruce BialoskyAfter Rush died, I was struck like so many others. I rarely listened to him because if I had the radio on during his hours I would be listening to Dennis Prager. While listening to the reaction to his leaving us, something stated by Tucker Carlson literally caused me to light up. He said that […]
Diversity Agonies
/in Culture Wars, Economy, Education, Liberty, News, Politics /by Craig J. CantoniThe racial diversity movement began with R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr., with his 1990 Harvard Business Review article, “From Affirmative Action to Affirming Diversity.” His thesis was that with the growth of racial minorities in the nation, it would behoove companies to have more diversity in their ranks if they wanted to understand their customers, in […]
Fatal Philanthropy
/1 Comment/in Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Education, News, Politics /by Tabitha KorolAn entrepreneur with an estimated net worth of more than $136 billion, Bill Gates founded Microsoft and technology; is deeply involved with the World Health Organization, which encompasses the world economy and world peace; the international Planned Parenthood Foundation, focusing on eugenics and population control; and the many facets of academia, all without the corresponding […]
The grim rise of ‘hate studies’
/in Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Education, News, Politics /by MercatorNet - Navigating Modern ComplexitiesIntellectual sanity requires monitoring the first signs of destructive idiocy. The toxic ideas that have corrupted today’s universities all began as tiny, obscure musings before escaping from the laboratories. They may have started with an unpublished paper or two, a request for modest institutional funding, or an informal discussion group. Eventually, they earn a panel […]