All Posts Tagged With: "education policy"
Education Is the Effect, Not the Cause, of Affluence
Despite its abysmal record, the United Nations wears a mantle of legitimacy in the popular discourse. Almost every daily newspaper or nightly newscast reports some UN-sponsored agency’s activities regarding world hunger, climate change, disease, or some other problem. All too often the UN is on the wrong side of reality. Take its latest “solution” to [...]
7Jul2010 | Jude Blanchette | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
In the endless debates over political correctness, champions of PC like to argue that their foes exaggerate the harm it causes. If you study the issue closely, you’ll find that political correctness is not as bad as you think it is—it’s much worse. Diane Ravitch found out this unwholesome truth in 1998. A prominent education [...]
7Jul2010 | Martin Morse Wooster | 1 comment | ContinuedSchool Choice
The overall quality of primary and secondary education received by white students is nothing to write home about. The very fact that 30 percent of college freshmen require remedial education, at a cost of over $2 billion, is pretty good evidence that there is widespread fraud in the conferring of high-school diplomas. That level of [...]
17Jun2009 | Walter E. Williams | 1 comment | ContinuedFederal Control of Education Needed?
The New York Times recently apologized to readers for its cavalier treatment of the facts in the Wen Ho Lee case. If that editorial failure merited an apology, the Times should be refunding readers’ money for publishing Leon Botstein’s September 19 op-ed on education. Botstein claims that local control is causing our public-school problems and [...]
1Feb2001 | Andrew J. Coulson | 0 comments | Continued-
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