The firm currently has only seven employees. Nonetheless, the recent decision of Walls 360 — a graphic arts firm that licenses images from children’s books and video games to make life-size wall art — to relocate from San Francisco to downtown Las Vegas is welcome news to a city that’s struggled with the financial effects […]
Last week, in response to Coercion-Schooling Secretary Arne Duncan’s Aug. 8 announcement that he would encourage all 50 states to apply for waivers of testing requirements under “No Child Left Behind” — the Secretary asserting such testing serves as an “Impediment” and “disincentive” to what America’s professional educrats are really supposed to be doing — […]
Mark Aug. 8 on your calendar. Few realize it, but the events of Aug. 5 through 8 marked the beginning of massive changes in America. No, I don’t write today about the overdue Standard & Poor downgrade of the actuarially bankrupt federal government’s bond rating, or even the (possibly more important) whining, petulant, vapid reaction […]
Even though the stated intent of the founders of the modern compulsory government schools — men like John Dewey and Horace Mann — was to wrest children away from their parents at the earliest possible age so as to remove them from the “foreign and un-American” influences of the lower-class home, what’s the most loudly […]
I never thought of the desert town of Pahrump a bastion of Political Correctness, but new Nye County Assessor Shirley Matson seems to have stirred some PC ire, west of the mountain, by sending a quasi-official email to Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo, asking to him to determine whether allegedly non-English-speaking laborers working to build […]
America’s system of compulsory public schools is based on the premise that “professional educators” (people with degrees not in science or literature but in “education”) can do a better job schooling the nation’s children than if that job were left up to their parents, as it was before the Civil War, when Alexis de Tocqueville […]
We keep getting letters explaining that of course the government schools can’t be expected to turn out as good a product as the private schools — even private schools that spend less per student per year — since the private schools get to pick and choose their students, while the government youth propaganda camps have […]
Last March, the Clark County School District announced that the federal Department of Education had selected Ron Montoya, principal of Valley High School, “as a recipient of the prestigious 2010 Educational Pioneer Award for his outstanding achievements and dedication to educational excellence. Mr. Montoya was also selected to serve as the keynote speaker for the […]
Americans are generally willing to make considerable sacrifices in order to pay the taxes that fund the most expensive public school system in the history of the world — even though the effectiveness of said schools in advancing our students much beyond what the rest the “first world” would call a fourth- or fifth-grade level […]
The short version of the controversy over the state of Nevada seeking federal “Race to the Top” schooling dollars goes like this: The weak economy has left Nevada schools short of cash. “Race to the Top” participation would provide more federal dollars, but the program requires states to use student test scores to track how […]