education

By Dakota Voice • December 8th, 2008

BY PAUL E. SCATES
The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, [...] Read more »

You might remember that a few weeks ago a video put together by John Zielger at HowObamaGotElected.com came out which set the liberals howling with rage.
The video showed interviews with 12 people who were existing the polls after having voted for Barack Obama. In the video, we sadly see that the Obama voters knew all [...] Read more »

Elected officials score worse than citizens
A couple of weeks ago the Intercollegiate Studies Institute released a disturbing report which found that more than twice as many Americans knew facts about “American Idol” as knew facts about the Gettysburg Address.
According to CNS News,
More than 2,000 people were administered a 33-question test this Spring on American history [...] Read more »

Last week’s poll on the Mayflower Compact is now closed.
The poll/question read as follows:
According to the Mayflower Compact, what are two of the reasons the Pilgrims made their voyage?
Most of the choices provided were valid to some degree (except for the third one), but the Mayflower Compact specifically states the reasons why they undertook their [...] Read more »

Reprinted by permission of The Christian Post
By Lawrence JonesChristian Post ReporterThu, Nov. 20 2008 09:17 AM ESTThe Texas Board of Education on Wednesday heard public arguments for and against a current science standard that requires students to be taught the “strengths and weaknesses” of evolution.
The State Board is looking to update its state science standards [...] Read more »

Previously I discussed the need to rebuild America’s foundation at the most basic level in order to save this “last best hope.”
A majority of Americans have forgotten our historic roots of freedom, personal responsibility, and limited government. It’s not enough anymore just to point out the need for a return to [...] Read more »

The “How Obama Got Elected” Zombie Voters video has gone viral. I posted it late last evening and it burned up the internet overnight.
Hannity and Colmes also talked to the man, John Ziegler, who commissioned the Zogby poll and did the documentary video last night (see below).
John Ziegler said he would bet Alan Colmes the [...] Read more »

Many conservatives are not afraid to speak their mind and even speak up in the public arena for their values. But almost none of us (myself included) are consistently doing what must be done to positively impact our decaying culture.
Many of us grew up having been taught the founding principles of our great nation. [...] Read more »

Now I know that our liberal bloggers in South Dakota are more informed than the folks in this video (our lib bloggers at least know who most of the players are), so don’t think I’m poking fun at you, liberal bloggers.
But you know as well as I do that this is almost certainly all-too-typical of [...] Read more »

Catherine Vogt, a 14-year-old girl in Illinois got a lesson in tolerance from the oh-so-tolerant Left when she wore a McCain t-shirt to school recently. (see video below)
She conducted an experiment by wearing on one occasion an Obama t-shirt and on another a McCain t-shirt and recorded the responses.
While most people at her school liked [...] Read more »

Dakota Voice continues our series from an issues-interview with Independent District 32 senate candidate Elli Schwiesow.
Schwiesow, a life-long Republican, is running against incumbent Democrat Tom Katus and Republican Stan Adelstein.
In this series, Schwiesow has discussed her stand on the issues of taxes, Second Amendment rights, universal preschool, energy, Native American issues, and Initiated Measure [...] Read more »

BY STAR PARKERFOUNDER & PRESIDENTCOALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION
According to the California Teachers Association and the California School Boards Association, the Proposition 8 marriage initiative has nothing to do with what is taught in California’s public schools. The “Yes on 8″ campaign claims that if homosexual marriage stays legal in California, kids will learn [...] Read more »

For Immediate Release
Pierre, SD – The radical left group, National Education Association contributed $1.1 million to the group opposing the South Dakota Open and Clean Government Act, YES on 10!
You might have seen one of the ads from the No on 10’s big lie campaign. South Dakotans should feel comfortable in [...] Read more »

A closer look at universal preschool, sans the rose-colored glasses.
From Reason.tv

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Watch the video below for some startling information.
“Abolish the ROTC”
“Bring the war home” (with communist fist in background)
“Power to the Weathermen”
“Piece now”
Barack Obama says Bill Ayers is “a guy who lives in my neighborhood; a professor of English in Chicago.”
Records indicate Barack Obama and Bill Ayers’ paths crossed repeatedly, according to meeting minutes, was the [...] Read more »

I guess some of our Leftist institutions have thrown off all pretense of objectivity.
I know, I know; the “mainstream” media shed that cloak some time ago.
But now, apparently so have schools and text book publishers.
Courtesy of Michelle Malkin and Real Debate Wisconsin, we learn that an 8th Grade literature book used in Racine Unified School [...] Read more »

This is beyond outrageous, but will our society as a whole do more than yawn?
There is clearly only one reason for this kind of blatant indoctrination: to warp the children’s sense of normality, and what is right and wrong, while they are at their youngest and most impressionable.
In an age (not that long ago) with [...] Read more »

When a Republican challenges a Republican in the general election, people sit up and take notice. That’s what is happening in South Dakota’s Legislative District 32 Senate race this year.
Elli Schwiesow has been heavily involved in state and local Republican Party efforts for many years. But this year, as she considered the tremendous expense it [...] Read more »

Isn’t it nice how the tolerant, open-minded Left just can’t see it’s way to entertain anything critical of it’s pet causes?
If someone even broaches the idea of not having the pro-homosexual “Daddy’s Roommate” in a library…oh, the nerve! What CENSORSHIP!
But donate a book to a library which might point out the immorality of homosexuality, [...] Read more »

Sorry, I couldn’t resist that headline after weeks of hearing how stupid, provincial and unqualified Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is for vice president of the United States.
In a remarkable flareup of candor from CNN, we find that Palin spoke at a higher grade level in Thursday night’s vice presidential debate than did Senator Joe Biden.

An [...] Read more »

From today’s StopLight: A college student is threatened with expulsion for sharing the Gospel. Read more »