Category archive: Education
Smells Like Hypocrisy
By Chuck Roger • December 15th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér Ideology can be and often is a terrible thing. Emotionally-invested dogmatists of all stripes share at least one common behavioral flaw, the propensity to be absolutely sure that whatever the ideology deems true must be true. After reading my article, “The Latest Education Fad Inverts Justice” (June 21, 2011), a government employee [...]
“Easy ‘A’” Policies Reflect a Generally Decayed Education System
By Chuck Roger • September 15th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér Would you enroll in a university program which practically guarantees a grade of “A” in most courses? Look no further. You might want to consider studying to be a teacher. University of Missouri economics professor Cory Koedel has released a report showing that education school courses have generally low grading standards. ”A” grades dominate [...]
Underlying Reasons for a Decay in Moral Integrity
By Chuck Roger • August 30th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér Recently, I engaged in a thought-provoking email exchange with a Clear Thinking subscriber on the topic of the decay in scientific integrity. The reader observed that a “lack of ethics and despicable moral behavior is replete in all areas of our society,” not just, for instance, in the global warming scientific community. [...]
Education Dep’t Tells Kids: All You Need Is Global Warmism, So Give Peace a Chance
By Chuck Roger • August 5th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Ideologues in our federal government are pushing falsehoods on children in order to spread the doctrine of the Church of Global Warming. CNSNews.com reports that the Department of Education hosted an event in which children were read scientifically baseless claims from books featuring Sponge Bob Square Pants and [...]
The Latest Education Fad Inverts Justice
By Chuck Roger • June 21st, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Something subtle and disturbing is happening under parents’ radar. Growing numbers of progressive educators are twisting a four-thousand-year-old concept in order to induce schoolchildren to adopt amoral worldviews. A trend gathering steam nationwide teaches conflict resolution based on “restorative justice.” Though traditionally applied in criminal situations, progressives are adapting [...]
Programming Scientists to Perform Social Engineering
By Chuck Roger • June 14th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at National Association of Scholars By Chuck Rogér An Arizona State University professor wants to train physical scientists to be social engineers. Political science professor David Guston contends that “stakeholders” in academia and industry should work with consumers and the feds to manage the “societal implications” of “environmental health and safety issues” surrounding certain technological [...]
Planned Parenthood’s Cobalt Blue Sex Education
By Chuck Roger • May 18th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, May 15, 2011 By Chuck Rogér (Click graph for fullsized view.) American philosopher Thomas Sowell wrote that “the vision of the anointed [has] achieved a sacrosanct status, hermetically sealed off from the contaminating influence of facts.”[1] There are few places in America with as dense a concentration of anointed critters as [...]
The Utterly Perplexing Perspectives of Americans Toward Public Education
By Chuck Roger • May 3rd, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér Some of the results of a recent Rasmussen poll set me to thinkin’, as people say in some parts of America. Nearly three-quarters of voters think that taxpayers are not getting their money’s worth from public schools. Only 11 percent think that the taxpayer “investment” in public schools is a good deal. Okay [...]
Preschools Are Using a Marxist’s Theories to Manufacture Collectivists
By Chuck Roger • March 28th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, March 27, 2011 The room buzzes with little voices. Little children engage in “mature, dramatic play.” An adult helps the children “regulate” and “monitor each other’s compliance” with “rules and assigned roles.”1 Each child knows his or her place. Each child does the group’s bidding, nothing else. Orwell’s 1984? No, a [...]
Teacher motivation, performance, and the union mentality
By Chuck Roger • March 25th, 2011 12:00 am
Lo and behold, students in countries where teachers earn higher pay for higher performance achieve higher competency in math, science, and reading. The results of a study recently reported in Education Next show that …students in countries that permit teacher salaries to be adjusted for outstanding performance score approximately one-quarter of a standard deviation higher on the international [...]
Taxpayers are funding anti-capitalist indoctrination of schoolchildren
By Chuck Roger • November 3rd, 2010 2:11 am
In keeping with my recent focus on environmental nut-jobs hell-bent on de-developing the United States and “saving the planet,” we go to PBS station WGBH in Boston–yes, the same station that produces This Old House. WGBH approached Annie Leonard with a proposal. Leonard is the creator of the venomous, lie-filled, anti-capitalist, anti-American video, The Story [...]
Pushing Junk Science on Children
By Chuck Roger • October 7th, 2010 2:47 am
Originally in American Thinker, October 6, 2010. Humans have angered Mother Nature. Our species must stop multiplying, give up our addiction to huge-screen HDTVs, stop eating so many steer, and travel on twenty-pound electric tricycles forty miles at a time between charging stations. Otherwise, we are doomed. This is a story about the ruling class [...]
Unicorns and the dishonest liberal ‘spending’ mantra
By Chuck Roger • September 27th, 2010 2:42 am
We’ve all heard it over and over again. “The children are our future. We must invest in our future.” We’ve got Proposition 302 on the ballot in my state of Arizona this November. The measure would give control to state legislators to move funding increases slated for education to other areas or cut the increases [...]
We need superheroes to fix the broken public education system? Really?
By Chuck Roger • September 6th, 2010 3:04 am
If you’ve got some time and want a good laugh, then please go see Waiting for Superman, a documentary scheduled to premier on September 24th. New York Times Op-Ed writer, Thomas Friedman, thinks that the movie is the best thing since Church of Global Warming Pope Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. See, Waiting for Superman [...]
Public education, lying liars, wasted money, and teachers’ unions
By Chuck Roger • August 9th, 2010 3:39 am
There are few better places to find nonsensical “thought” than in the education arena. A myth that captures a lot of attention is the falsehood that more money buys better education. The endless push by politicians for school funding hikes is nothing more than appeasement of teachers’ unions that dump millions into politicians’ campaigns. At [...]
The radicals are teaching our children
By Chuck Roger • August 6th, 2010 3:39 am
Accuracy in Academia’s Malcolm Kline points out a disturbing statistic. One-quarter of the former members of the national council of the radical anti-American Students for Democratic Society (SDS) “has either worked in academia, guest lectured there or written textbooks.” Earlier this year, I showed how leftwing radicals are commandeering American education. I described a process [...]
Academia’s rejection of true diversity
By Chuck Roger • July 20th, 2010 8:49 pm
“Diversity.” In the world of academia, social engineering-minded progressives take the noun in one direction: race. On MindingTheCampus.com, Princeton University’s Russell Nieli captures the attitude of ivory tower elitists. Asians, unlike blacks and Hispanics, receive no boost in admissions. Indeed, the opposite is often the case, as the quota-like mentality that leads college administrators to [...]
Cesspools of ‘education’ immorality
By Chuck Roger • July 16th, 2010 8:50 pm
READER WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS EXPLICIT (NOT VULGAR) LANGUAGE CITED FROM OTHER SOURCES. Provincetown, Massachusetts and Helena, Montana offer vivid insights into the twisted mind of the modern-day “liberal” educator. First, I include a short Associated Press piece in its entirety. A new policy in a Massachusetts public school district that makes condoms available [...]
Thuggish teachers’ unions and your tax dollars
By Chuck Roger • June 24th, 2010 8:56 pm
Let’s do a little exercise. Your employer pays you. With part of the income, you pay your property, sales, and income taxes. Part of the taxes go to pay teachers’ salaries. Part of the teachers’ salaries–whether the teachers like it or not–is forcibly extracted before the teachers even see the money. The extracted money gets [...]
Cultural Marxism in Education: The Gathering Revolt
By Chuck Roger • April 21st, 2010 4:01 am
Originally appeared in American Thinker, April 18, 2010. For decades now, American schools corrupted by cultural Marxism have been eroding the moral fiber and judgment skills of schoolchildren. Unless sensible parents and teachers put a stop to the indoctrination, today’s free speech-crippling political correctness, tolerance of immorality, and lack of knowledge of our country’s birth [...]
The pernicious influence of a long-dead Italian Marxist on American morals
By Chuck Roger • April 14th, 2010 9:44 pm
From my American Thinker article on cultural Marxism in the education system: What reduced American education to its current state? In part, the answer lies in cultural Marxism, a societal disease spawned by an Italian, Antonio Gramsci, in the 1920s. Gramsci preached that in order to free “oppressed” social groups, the oppressors’ beliefs must be marginalized. [...]
Unisex school restrooms? You knew this was coming
By Chuck Roger • April 13th, 2010 9:44 pm
Fox News reports that a group of enlightened progressives going by the name of the Maine Human Rights Commission is poised to make it illegal for Maine’s schools to have gender-specific restrooms. We, the unclean masses, simply must understand that… …forcing a student into a particular room or group because of his or her biological [...]
Welcome to the Machine: Cultural Marxism in Education
By Chuck Roger • March 31st, 2010 4:15 am
Originally in American Thinker, March 27, 2010. Welcome to the machine. What did you dream? It’s alright, we told you what to dream. – Roger Waters The education machine that keeps churning out newbies conditioned in mind-blunting nonjudgmentalism has laid the groundwork for a left-wing takeover. What reduced American education to its current state? In [...]
Paying double for government bureaucracy–public school spending
By Chuck Roger • March 21st, 2010 9:58 pm
Does the average taxpaying parent know that government spends twice as much per student to indoctrinate children into progressive ideology as the parents would spend on an objective education in a private school? Cato Institute’s Adam Schaeffer found that in America’s five largest metro area school districts “public schools are spending 93 percent more than [...]
How to Pollute a Mind: Lessons from John Dewey and Van Jones
By Chuck Roger • March 17th, 2010 4:19 am
Originally in American Thinker, March 11, 2010. A new Ivy League “fellow” will soon have the opportunity to teach students his belief that white people are “steering poison into the people-of-color communities” and that America should give up its wealth to the American Indians. This June, Princeton University will welcome to its hallowed halls former [...]
