Albany, New York isn't just the seat of a clown car state government -- it's also a college town. And college students, when boozed to the gills, can out-bozo politicians. (Well, almost.) On March 12th crowds of drunken students rioted in the Albany neighborhood known as the student ghetto. Their cellphones captured the riot. YouTube took it viral. Suddenly, all eyes were on Albany's student ghetto.
Remember the late great Tea Party? The grass roots movement that made the political establishment quake? For one glorious moment it seemed as if a truly independent, average Joe/Joan movement might be gathering steam. A memory from that halcyon time: assorted TV pundits telling Republican leaders that Tea Party people “don’t like you guys either.” [...]
Once upon a wasted time (circa late 1970's and early 80's) I hung on New York City's downtown art/music scene. The scene never fit me, I tried to fit it. Which was one of the stupidest things I've ever done. My only excuse is that I was caught in a spiritual downdraft. Couldn't see how deeply the Punk New Wave No Wave Ironic Transgressive thing wasn't me. Its gods weren't mine.
Gardner Goldsmith teams up with Brett Veinotte, of the excellent School Sucks Project and the School Sucks podcast. Gard and Brett discuss the impetus of the series and project, and why public education must be stopped.
Private sector union membership has been on a slow and steady decline for decades. While union leaders decry the numbers, saying that good union jobs are disappearing, the reality behind unions is much more complex. To an extent, they have become a victim of their own success.
With literally nothing to show for the $100 billion it has wasted so far, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants even more money to "strengthen" Head Start, a preschool program its own study finds is a failure.
Not only aren't your children learning much of anything in public school, they may well be in mortal danger, thanks in part to the attitudes and beliefs of their teachers and school administrators.
Here, we talk to Sam Blumenfeld, the legendary critic of state controlled education, and the man who predicted that the look-say method of teaching reading would produce millions of illiterate American children.
Imagine being a child who takes peppermint into school -- and is suspended for it and told he or she engaged in "wrongdoing". Imagine being a parent who has his or her money forced from him in order to perpetuate this school system, and can get little if any satisfaction in changing the bad system.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is buying beef and chicken to serve to your children in public school that fast-food chains reject as poor quality or even unsafe.
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