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Elementary School Ditches Veteran’s Day for UN-Sponsored ‘Namaste’ Day
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Featured, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report And you wonder why the younger generations are so malformed and ignorant? These heroes fought and in many cases paid the ultimate price for these spoiled, entitled losers to crap all over them. The UN should not be honored, it should be dismantled, it is the global arm of oppressive regimes […]
Weekend Read: Imprimis – Inside the Transgender Empire
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Christopher F. Rufo The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are […]
Universities Hit With Civil Rights Complaints Alleging Tuition Programs Illegally Discriminate Based On Race
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The University of North Dakota (UND) and UND School of Law were hit with civil rights complaints this week by the Equal Protection Project over tuition reduction programs they allege violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “These institutions […]
Campus Anti-Semitism Can’t be Stopped Without Dismantling the DEI Complex
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky The October 7th murderous terrorist attacks in Israel led to protests erupting on many college campuses. These protests were both verbal and somewhat physical on Israel and the Jewish people while Israel had yet to engage militarily. These protests were justifiably branded by many as anti-Semitic. There have been many calls for […]
There Is No AI Shortcut to Real Education
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Catholic Thing Dan Guernsey: Artificial Intelligence can neither love a student nor inspire greatness. Despondency and cynicism result when learning is isolated, unrecognized by other humans, or simply reduced to data sets. Educational optimists predict that artificial intelligence (AI) will soon provide amazing efficiencies and progress in teaching and learning. There is no doubt […]
NYC: Pre-K Teacher Spreads Pro-Hamas Propaganda to Four-Year-Olds
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch UPDATE: It turns out she is a dhimmi Christian, sold out to the Islamic agenda, as so many are. Raising up a new generation of jihadis. NYC pre-K teacher pushes anti-Israel agenda with lessons about ‘land theft, displacement and ethnic cleansing by Deirdre Bardolf and Susan Edelman, New York Post, November 4, 2023: A […]
Universities Have Become Staging Grounds for American Pogroms
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tony Kinnett The American university system has finally gone beyond failure and has become an active threat to the United States and its people. We have reached peak political irony as LGBTQ activists cry in the streets of college campuses for a group, Hamas, that would hang them from cranes. Universities that once proclaimed the virtues of the […]
Biden Admin Targets Nation’s Largest Private Christian University [Grand Canyon University]
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Corinne Murdock The Biden administration has set its sights on the largest private Christian university in the nation: Arizona’s Grand Canyon University (GCU). For over half a decade the Department of Education (ED) has denied GCU’s IRS-granted nonprofit status. After GCU pushed back with legal action, the Biden administration responded with the full force […]
Homeschooling Is ‘America’s Fastest Growing Form of Education,’ Experts Say
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Since the 2017-2018 school year, the number of parents homeschooling has increased dramatically. With the rise has come pushback from state educators like Hillsborough County School Board member Lynn Gray who said parents don’t have “any understanding of education.” As far as Gray is concerned, this increase in homeschooling is going to hurt […]
Elite University Hosting Biden Center Took Money From School That Settled With US Gov’t Over Alleged Hezbollah Ties
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The University of Pennsylvania, which hosts the Penn Biden Center, took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2022, roughly five years after AUB paid a settlement to the United States government in connection with its alleged ties to Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terror organization. UPenn […]
Ivy League Among Top Recipients of $8.5 Billion Islamic Funding
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The terrifying rise in Jew hatred across college campuses are no accident. Things don’t just happen. They are made to happen. What a difference twenty years can make. Back in 2004, a young Jewish girl from Tennessee got Harvard University to return a $2.5 million gift this week to the president of the […]
Weekend Read – The Gem of Unplanned Pregnancy Options: ‘Open’ Adoption
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Terri Marcroft Editors’ Note: The following essay is the third of three by Theresa Marcroft published in The Prickly Pear. This series is an important contribution addressing the crisis of unplanned pregnancies in America. The first essay, Weekend Read: How Abortion Hurts Women, presents the very real long-term physical and mental health dangers prior […]
The Average Cost of Public School Education Is 58% More Than Private School
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy James D. Agresti The average cost of private schools is a vital fact for understanding issues like school choice and public school spending. This is because it provides a market-based comparison to the cost of government schools. Yet, the U.S. Department of Education hasn’t published an estimate for the average cost of private K–12 […]
British University Plans to Offer Masters in Witchcraft, Magic, and Occult Science
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council “Witches are back, and they want academic credit,” said Dr. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in a recent episode of his podcast “The Briefing.” Mohler discussed the University of Exeter in England, which plans to offer a master’s degree in witchcraft, magic, and occult science by fall of 2024. And […]
Virginia School District Removes Sexually Explicit Books to Keep Focus on Literacy
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council A public school superintendent in Virginia is making it clear that his school district will be focusing on improving the literacy of its students while also protecting them from being exposed to sexually explicit material while in school. As parents and observers began noticing a rise in gender ideology, critical race theory, […]
Whose Children Are They?
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky When I was growing up there was no question who was in charge of me. It was my parents. I was blessed with going to one of the finest public school systems at the time — Shaker Heights, Ohio. It was clear the schools were responsible for educating me to read, write, […]
Decolonization from Theory to Practice
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Phillip W. Magness Since October 7th, 2023, we have seen that ideas have consequences in the real world. Phillip Magness is an economic historian who specializes in the economic dimensions of slavery and racial discrimination, the history of taxation, and measurements of economic inequality over time. He also maintains an active research interest in […]
Why a student with a 1590 SAT score was rejected by 16 colleges
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Stanley Zhong did everything right. A 4.42 weighted GPA (3.98 unweighted). A 1590 SAT score (1600 is perfect). He’d even launched his own startup (RabbitSign). Yet the 18-year-old Palo Alto-area graduate was stunned when he found himself rejected by 16 of the 18 schools he’d applied to, including multiple state schools. “Some of […]
Anti-Semitic and Pro-Hamas Rallies Reveal the Need to Teach Truthful History
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Since October 7, many of us have been deeply impacted and heartbroken seeing images, hearing news, and realizing what has happened to thousands of individuals and families in Israel. In addition to sympathizing with our brothers and sisters, it has been eye-opening and tragic to see how many college students sympathize with — not the Israeli victims — but […]
American Universities Are Sick And Need A Cure
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The palpable decline in what we optimistically still call “higher education” was on display these last two weeks with campus demonstrations by supporters of Hamas, who in calling for “from the river to the sea/Palestine will be free” were demanding the disappearance of the only Jewish state, and its replacement by […]
Stocks Look for Seasonal Strength
/in Economy, Education, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel As reported in the past few missives on the subject, stocks, and bonds have been having a generally tough time. We warned that this was going to happen, and we were lucky enough to get the call right. Weakness continued through the month of October and just might extend into the first […]
California University Offers Extra Credit for Joining Death March Against the Jews
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report We must end these decaying, archaic, institutions of hate and ignorance. The left destroyed them. Its time to bring them down. They will be the death of this country. Make no mistake, these are death marches. “Free Palestine” is a call for the end of the Jewish nation. The American public […]
Weekend Read: Mass Madness at Three [Getting Covid Right]
/in Economy, Education, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Helen Andrews As the narrative of the Covid era settles, it looks as if we are intent on forgetting what actually happened and who was responsible. Pandemics have a way of falling out of historical memory. President George W. Bush read historian John Barry’s book The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Plague […]
Paying for Hate on College Campuses
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Sarah Lee Editors’ Note: Perhaps just as Covid lockdown revealed to parents what was going on in public education, so will the reactions of the university to Hamas’s barbarity against Israeli civilians trigger a second look out our universities. It appears the Muslim Brotherhood and Progressives have formed a union. Yet Gallup Polls consistently […]
Critical Race Theory in Data: What the Statistics Show
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Phillip W. Magness The concept of Critical Race Theory (CRT) has sparked heated debate in recent years, particularly after conservative activists singled out this school of thought as a hotbed of applied Marxism in both higher and K-12 education. The response from CRT’s defenders has been peculiar, to put it mildly. Just over a […]
RACISM: Oregon Schools Suspend Basic Skills In Reading, Writing, Math to Graduate Because It ‘Harms Students of Color’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report This is the most racist thing I’ve seen, and that’s saying allot considering the Democrats have come to define racism. Oregon students will no longer need to be proficient in reading, writing, and math to graduate. They’re doing this cuz of “inequity” and having standards to graduate “disproportionately harmed students of […]
University Students’ Support For Terrorism Isn’t Ideology, It’s Conditioning
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Stella Morabito In times past, there’d be universal outrage over assassins suddenly invading, taking hostage, and slaughtering more than 1,000 people, including grandmothers, children, and concertgoers. Back then we’d call such actions “crimes against humanity,” regardless of which side did the attacking. But today’s brazen support for Hamas terrorists is an indicator that rule […]
Has Hamas’ Attack Finally Aroused Parents About Universities?
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky Many of us have tried somewhat in vain to alert parents about the fecklessness of supporting certain colleges and/or sending their children to them. Currently, there are 3,982 colleges and universities in the United States. Some are not only dangerous for the mind of your child or grandchild, but their body as […]
Colleges Today: Indoctrination, Not Education?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jerry Newcombe It’s amazing how, in our age of the great unraveling, we see the value of a college education imploding before our eyes. The evil Hamas did in Israel on October 7th, 2023—leaving 1400 Israelis dead in brutal attacks on men, women, children, and even babies—revealed their true goals. But many college students […]
The Demons We’ve Made
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Zachary R. Goldsmith Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1872 novel Demons is, at its core, a story of fathers and sons, a story of two generations typified by Stepan, the father, and Pyotr, the son. Stepan is a composite stand-in character for the Russian intelligentsia of the 1840s, who looked to fashionable Western theory and socialism as the […]