The Department of Defense will remove some personal information about high school students from a military recruiting database and shorten the amount of time it keeps the information, a civil liberties group announced last week.
One of the many goals of No Child Left Behind is to decrease the "achievement gap" between rich and poor, white and minority. We already know that isn't happening. At the center of the debate is often money. If these schools only had more of it, they could solve all their problems. In fact, the states themselves seem to generally favor NCLB if only they got a larger portion of the taxpayers' income. Much of what No Child Left Behind seeks to accomplish is "contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded."
Yes Virginia, many people do socially beneficial things without taxpayer support! Take homeschoolers. "Please" say those who think homeschools turn children into illiterate religious nuts. As opposed to illiterate godless nuts. No such thing as a godless nut? Think again.
Homeland Stupidity is a bit over two years old, so as 2006 draws to a close it's time again to look back at what has passed, and to look forward at what may come. Some other site I read is doing a "Top 20 posts of 2006" as a year-end review. But I've always been about bringing attention to important things which might otherwise pass unnoticed, so I'm going to do something different: The top stories you probably missed.
I think there is something fundamentally wrong with a society that has become so violent that we must have a show of armed government force to keep order in a public school. If anything should hint to America that school is no longer a safe place for children, the perceived necessity of police force should.
Virginia is planning a pilot program for the state's proposed universal preschool program. The pilot program is to begin next year for 1,000 children and gradually expanded to include all four year olds in the state.
Henry David Thoreau once said something like: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." And that's what we defenders of liberty must begin doing more of: striking at the root of evil.
Research done by Tel Aviv University Professor of Psychology Avner Ziv confirms that students retain more information when humor is used effectively to illustrate important points. Of course, humor is very subjective, but here is a roundup of stories that I have run into recently that are at least worth a smile.
It is possible for students from lower socio-economic backgrounds to achieve at levels equal to and even superior to their more economically advantaged peers. The problems inherent in poverty are great, but they are not insurmountable. I know this because I have seen it done, and the children involved are not statistical anomalies.
On Tuesday, school districts in Michigan, Vermont and Texas, together with the National Education Association asked a federal appeals court to revive an old lawsuit, arguing that schools should not have to comply with requirements which aren't funded by the federal government.
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