UPDATE: Not like there was any doubt, but the Texas State Board of Education approved the changes to the social studies and history curriculum we listed here last week. Who needs facts when there’s ideology? [MSNBC]
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Posted in Education, Lawmaking, Religion, Texas, Wingnuts, tagged Education, laws, racism, Religion, revisionist history, Science, Texas on 05/25/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Texas To Re-Write School Curriculum With Whitewashed Fantasies Of Guns, Dungarees, And The Baby Jeebus
Posted in Education, Racisms, Religion, Sicknesses, Terrorisms, Texas, The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged atheism for the win!, evangelicals, everything's dumber in Texas, irony, revisionist history, school system, Texas, Zionist history on 05/18/2010 | 2 Comments »
Remember when America, and specifically, the United States, was mentioned by name, in the Bible, as the “chosen” nation? Yes you do, you liar. It was right there, in the Bible. Like, on page 8! Pfft. Whatever. It’ll be in the Texas school books sometime soon anyway, as proof. Cynthia Dunbar, Texas lawyer, wingnut, and [...]
The Student Loan Portion Of Health Care Reform Bill
Posted in Education, Health, tagged Education, health care reform, student loans on 03/26/2010 | Leave a Comment »
You know what didn’t get enough play with this whole health care package approval? The student loan overhaul attached to the bill. As of yesterday, sweeping restructuring in financial aid programs have forced out commercial banks from the federal student loan market, cutting off billions of dollars in profits from banks, and redirecting most of [...]
Sorry, You’re Too Fat To Fit Into The Cap And Gown
Posted in Colleges, Education, Health, The End of the World, tagged big news, BMI, Fatists, Lincoln University on 11/19/2009 | 4 Comments »
Lincoln University recently fashioned a new requirement for its undergraduate students: a physical exam to determine each student’s BMI (body mass index), of course! If one’s BMI is over 30, the university requires the student to take a physical education class before being permitted to graduate! Hey everyone, did you know that academic performance and [...]
Posted in Colleges, Education, tagged being mean to private lenders, college loans, Education, fancy book learnin' on 09/18/2009 | Leave a Comment »
HEY THAT’S SOCIALISM! On Thursday, the House voted in favor of the biggest overhaul of college aid programs since their creation in the 1960s. The new measure ends subsidies for private lenders, boosts Pell Grants for needy students, and creates a grant program to improve community colleges (among other things, of course). Ousting private lenders [...]
American Conservatives Freak Over U.N. Sex Education Guide
Posted in Education, Health, The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged AIDS, Health, puritanism, racism, rants, sex ed, specious morality, STDs, studies, The U.N, USA? USA?, Wingnuts on 09/03/2009 | 1 Comment »
SO. The U.N. tried to do this responsible, preventative thing by putting together a set of proposed international sex education guidelines, aimed at reducing H.I.V. infections among young people worldwide. Which, great, considering the following sobering facts: – we do not have a vaccine for AIDS – only 40% of young people aged 15 to [...]
Low-Wage Workers Often Cheated By Employers
Posted in Education, Jobs, tagged Economy, Jobs, poverty, prejudices, racism, sexism, studies, wages on 09/02/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A comprehensive new study found low-wage workers are routinely denied proper overtime pay and are often paid less than the minimum wage. The study surveyed 4,387 workers (39% illegal immigrants, 31% legal immigrants, and 30% native-born Americans) in various low-wage industries, including apparel manufacturing, child care and discount retailing.
Health Care ‘Debate’ Rages On: North Carolinians Say NO To The Pubic Option
Posted in Education, Health, The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged dumbasses, fail, freudian slips, no child left behind, North Carolina, the pubic option, USA!, Wingnuts, you's spelchekk necks tyme on 08/17/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some fine American protestards in Raleigh, North Carolina, being sad and shout-y and inane; or maybe they’re saving all of their letter ‘L’s for the coming revolllllllution?? And oooh, just look at all the diversity in that crowd. They’s all white, just like Jeebus. [Democratic Underground] [Ed. Note: Before any haters get their [...]
Obama Uses Stimulus Money to Shape Education Strategy
Posted in Education, Lawmaking, Politicking, tagged Education, laws, no child left behind, Obama Administration, politics, rants, standardized tests, Stimulus on 08/17/2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Obama administration is employing billions of dollars of economic stimulus money to persuade states to rewrite education laws to open the door to more charter schools and expand the use of student test scores for judging teachers. [NY Times] Is anyone else extremely put off by the administration’s willingness to expand the role of [...]
Who You Calling A Man-Hater?
Posted in Education, Ladies, Stuff, tagged cultural beliefs, Education, sexism, women on 07/31/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A new study in Psychology of Women Quarterly finds that feminists are “man-haters” after all (duh!), but rather, that it is anti-feminists who harbor more negative feelings towards men. According to the researchers from the University of Houston, “our work finds that, indeed, non-feminists believe in traditional gender roles such as men being breadwinners and [...]
ETS Tries To Help Graduate Students, Fails
Posted in Colleges, Education, tagged edujimication, ETS on 07/10/2009 | 3 Comments »
The Educational Testing Service wanted to help graduate school applicants prove they are more than just a set of standardized test scores by standardizing their personalities, instead. The Personal Potential Index, the new tool developed by ETS unveiled this week, is basically a questionnaire that codifies/distills personality into six traits, on which the applicant is [...]
More Headlines: Trains And Cars Also Racist
Posted in Colleges, Economy, Education, Military, Terrorisms, The End of the World, Traveling to the Foreigns, War, World News, tagged death, Economy, student loans on 06/30/2009 | Leave a Comment »
• A freight train derailed and exploded in Northern Italy, killing at least 12 and injuring 50. [Talking Points Memo]. Oh and a car bomb hits NATO-supplying trucks in Pakistan, killing four. [NY Times] • As the U.S. begins its troop withdrawal from Iraq, the country is expected to start a much-heralded auction of licenses [...]
No Child Left Behind Law Leaving Behind Children All The Time
Posted in Education, tagged bad ideas, minorities is bad at maths, studies on 04/29/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Remember that law the Bush administration passed, promising to narrow the achievement gap between white and “minority” students? Turns out, it don’t work too good (which is surprising, in light of the success of Dubya’s other ‘progressive’ and caring social policies). The good news of course, is that it’s blacks and Hispanics being left behind, [...]
Indiana High School Doesn’t Allow Lesbian Student To Wear Tuxedo To The Prom
Posted in Education, Sexist on 03/12/2009 | 1 Comment »
A 17 year-old Lebanon High School student (Indianapolis) has sued the school district after her principal told her she would have to wear a dress to the prom on April 25th. What kind of crazy bullshit is that? Her lawyer, from the local ACLU, has “asked a federal court to issue an injunction that would [...]
Separate But Equal
Posted in Education, tagged bad ideas on 03/11/2009 | 1 Comment »
If your students are testing poorly and have behavioral problems, why not blame their sex and place them in single-sex classrooms to, err, help them learn? That’s what P.S. 140 up in the Bronx did. The geniuses behind such “revolutionary” initiatives argue that the separation of classrooms by gender result in fewer confrontations between students, [...]
