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Call for Nominations: 2012 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education
–Seeking Game Changers Who Have Transformed the Face of American Education – WHAT: The 2012 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education seeks to acknowledge current and emerging leaders who… Read more
Michigan: School, Police Chief Shut Down and Evacuate Pro-Freedom Talk about Sharia Law
The Allegan High School auditorium was evacuated Thursday evening after authorities became aware of a fatwa on the head of a speaker scheduled to appear at an event there. Part… Read more
Is Obama Going To Unilaterally Slash The Size Of The U.S. Nuclear Arsenal By Another 80 Percent?
Barack Obama wants to disarm America. There simply is no other way to explain his reckless behavior. On Tuesday it came out that the Obama administration is considering plans to… Read more
Romney is no longer the strongest candidate for the big match-up against Obama
AP Romney loses his ace in the hole WASHINGTON — Rick Santorum is suddenly Mr. Electable. For the first time in the turbulent 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination,… Read more
Affluent Foreign-Born Parents in N.Y. Prefer Public Schools
Miriam and Christian Rengier, a German couple moving to New York, visited some private elementary schools in Manhattan last spring in search of a place for their son. They immediately… Read more
Study of the Holocaust Sees Growing Demand Among Overseas Visitors
JERUSALEM — The students were spared nothing. There were sessions on Nazi disputes over how to murder the Jews; propaganda art in the Third Reich; encounters with survivors; a history… Read more
A Warning Sign For The World
Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail. Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all… Read more
Elk Grove schools scramble to staff classes during apparent teacher sickout
Sheldon High School sophomore Brandon Galarpe watched movies most of the day Friday under the watchful eyes of substitutes. Only his Spanish teacher had showed up to work. The school… Read more
Sticking with GPA is smarter than make-or-break testing
O. Ricardo Pimentel – The goal of the new high-stakes STAAR testing that Texas will launch in the spring is purportedly to increase the college readiness of the state’s students. Unfortunately,… Read more
The Importance of Mayoral Control: Frank Jackson Takes Action in Cleveland
by RiShawn Biddle – Cleveland may be the one city in which mayoral control of schools has so far been an unabashed failure. In the 14 years since Ohio state… Read more
