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Speaking a couple years ago about technology and education, Apple CEO and founder Steve Jobs said that technology wouldn’t matter as long as you can’t fire teachers. “I believe that what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way,” he said. Jobs likened schools to running a small business that he said could never succeed if you can’t hire and fire. Reasonable? I think so. Read more »

C-FAM reasserts their story that Planned Parenthood distributed explicit sex guides to Girl Scouts at a recent UN conference, including information that debunks denials from Girl Scout leadership that the event happened. Read more »

Butler University had the opportunity to welcome one of the most important figures of our times for what was certain to be a non-partisan commencement speech: Chief Justice John Roberts. However, the Faculty Senate, via secret ballot, shot down this opportunity. These self-appointed guardians of diversity and tolerance are terrified of a genuine open and free exchange of ideas. Read more »

The best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: Global Warming in Historical Perspective; Obama and NOAA may soon abolish recreational fishing; State’s Rights Can Live Again; Climate Confusion at the National Association of Evangelicals; Tea Party Danger: Mediocrity; Public Education: The Indoctrination Factory; Open wide: Dems plan to ram it down whole; and more! Read more »

The Texas State Board of Education voted on Friday to approve new standards for social studies classes. The 11-4 vote was a preliminary approval for a curriculum that will serve as the framework in Texas classrooms for the next 10 years. Texas has the second largest school system in the nation, behind California, and is the second-largest textbook market in the country. The Lone Star state can thus have influence over the reading material used in classrooms nationwide. Read more »

A legal group on Thursday filed a petition requesting the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case of a kindergarten student’s poster that was censored by a school because it contained the image of Jesus. When Antonio was in kindergarten, he drew a poster with several religious figures with the words, “The only way to save the world” for an art project about the environment. Read more »

During the National Defend Education protest last week, you didn’t so much see parents, teachers and students as much as you saw union thugs and socialists out defending public education. Glenn Beck ran a special on this Friday. In this video, Beck takes a closer look at one of the nut-job organizations present at the protest called Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST). The FIST rep sings the praises of “free” education and the “right” to food, and how wonderful the workers paradise of the Soviet Union was. Read more »

Glenn Beck’s “Indoctrination in America” special last Friday is a sobering look into the modern excuse for “public education.” It reveals the host of radical socialist organizations that are meddling in American public education, and what they are teaching our children: to believe in global warming dogma, push radical environmentalism, parrot Marxist propaganda, and not listen to their feeble-minded parents. Read more »

These are the best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: Legalize Marijuana? That’s Crazy!; Al Gore: King of Lie-Lie Land; Lord Monckton to Al Gore: I’m Coming for You; Global Warming Hysteria: Following the Green Money; Global Warming Fanatics Shoot Children, Themselves in Attempt to Save Earth; Kopp vs. Zimmerman: Science Versus Hysteria; MSNBC meltdown: Tea Party racists, anti-semite murderers; and more! Read more »

The Cato Institute has an informative new video out about the cost of public schools…and the hidden costs of public schools. The per-pupil spending in the average public school is staggering enough (especially when you consider how little homeschool parents spend per-pupil and manage to out-perform their public school peers). But as this presentation will show, there are considerably more hidden costs that even the published figures seldom reveal. Read more »

A discussion took place on South Dakota Public Radio today between South Dakota state Rep. Don Kopp (R-Rapid City) and Dr. Pat Zimmerman from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology regarding Kopp’s bill requiring balanced instruction when anthropogenic global warming theory is taught in public schools. Read more »

I have seen the new face of America, and it is troubling. According to an expansive study by the Pew Research Center, the Millennial generation is the so-called “new face of America.” This study raises some provocative questions about this up-and-coming generation and what it bodes for the future of our nation Read more »

A Christian legal group announced Saturday its intention to sue a Florida county school district in an attempt to restore the rights of faculty to pray. The decree bars school officials from “promoting, advancing, endorsing, participating in, or causing Prayers” and from “orally express[ing] personal religious beliefs to students during or in conjunction with instructional time or a School Event.” Read more »

Did you know our American colleges most prolific product is liberals? If you didn’t, you’ve been living under a rock…or you’re a liberal.
It is undeniable that people stand a greater chance of becoming a liberal by attending the average college. Of course, liberals would say that’s because liberalism is the “enlightened” philosophy, and [...] Read more »

Controversy over a morning prayer meeting at a high school in Georgetown, S.C., was settled this week as district officials offered a compromise. Students at Georgetown High School will be allowed to form their own prayer club as long as it is open to any student and is sponsored by a faculty member. Read more »

Although it’s hard to keep up with them all, the latest outrage in Congress is a bill introduced on January 27th by openly homosexual Congressman Jared Polis of Colorado [the founder of Proflowers.com]. The bill, H.R. 4530, is the so-called, “Student Nondiscrimination Act of 2010.” Here we go again. The assault on our school kids continues with this bill which is laced with falsehoods and stipulations that are arguably unconstitutional. Read more »

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: Team Obama Recruiting at Public Schools; Global Warming Boss Takes Chauffeured Ride 1 Mile to Work; Atheist Group Opposes Postage Stamp Honoring Mother Teresa; Star Wars Text Makes it to Earth; Canadian Premier Flees Government Health Care to United States; The Super Bowl Kerfuffle; South Dakota Resisting Govt Health Care With Three Bills in Legislature; and more! Read more »

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said recently, “Our K-12 agenda can be summed up in one word: reform.” If only it were true. But what Duncan calls reform is indeed putting lipstick on a pig. In this case, the pig is Washington’s never changing formula for solving everything: spending ever-increasing sums of taxpayer’s money. Read more »

Liberals are wailing that former congressman Tom Tancredo is a racist, based on comments he made about the intellectual prowess of the body that elected Barack Obama. So is Tancredo really a racist…or are his critics only proving Tancredo right once again? Read more »

A new landmark study shows that abstinence education is more effective in reducing sexual activity among youths than other programs. One-third of students who completed the abstinence program had sexual intercourse within two years of the class. By comparison, more than half of those who participated in safe sex and condom use programs said they had sexual intercourse. Read more »

We’ve heard many stories over the past year about children being led to sing praises to The One Barack Obama in schools. As disturbing as this is, we’ve just learned of something even worse: Obama’s Organizing for America goons are trying to recruit children at public schools to intern in advancing Obama’s Marxist agenda. Read more »