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November 10, 2009

Student Blogs: Speaking Truth to Pooh-bahs

Jonathan Bean

In a previous post, I noted how military bloggers are writing the "first pages of history." Likewise, student bloggers are offering a place to speak out against the abuses on their campuses: from of......

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November 10, 2009

'Brainy' Cult Lessons in NYC

Candace de Russy

So brain-dead is much of contemporary education that, at first blush, one might be tempted at least to give the benefit of the doubt to a "Brain Education" program in which thousands of New York Cit......

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November 10, 2009

Blue Blastoff

Ashley Thorne

A school in lower Manhattan created by the Blue Man Group believes we can't teach kids facts anymore...but we can teach them to "build a harmonious and sustainable world."

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November 9, 2009

Running in Place

Peter Wood

Candace de Russy on Phi Beta Cons links a website picture of a test about the Constitution given in 1954 in which an 8th grader, Kenny Hignite, scored 98½ percent by listing all the cabinet p......

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November 9, 2009

Campus Priorities: Stonewall versus Berlin Wall

George Leef

In this Pope Center piece released today, Charles Johnson, a student at Claremont McKenna College, writes about the contrast on his campus: Lots of attention for the Stonewall Inn incident of 1969,......

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