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Johnny can’t read? Janie can’t add? Well, here’s another reason why.

June 19, 2013

My feeling is that the most significant factor behind a student’s success in school are engaged parents.  I remember Mom having me sit at the kitchen table and watching me do homework AFTER she had gone over the material herself.  It wasn’t until I hit subjects like finite match, calculus, and programming and AP biology [ Read more ]

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Biden: ” ‘You don’t need an AR-15. It’s harder to aim, it’s harder to use…”

March 3, 2013

Joe certainly doesn’t like AR-15s and has been telling folks “You don’t need that” (which is one of the tell tale signs of a Progressive / Nanny-Stater: “You don’t need that, I don’t know of anyone who says they need that, and it’s about the quality of life“).  Especially the ladies – “git yourself a [ Read more ]

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Blaming the need for Generators on tax cuts? Income Inequality??

November 24, 2012

“It’s manifestly silly (and highly polluting) for every fine home to have a generator. It would make more sense to invest those resources in the electrical grid so that it wouldn’t fail in the first place….So time and again, we see the decline of public services accompanied by the rise of private workarounds for the [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – Jerry Bowyer

November 22, 2012

As my friend Reuven Brenner has taught me, history is a series of experiments: The Human Gamble. Some gambles work and are adopted by history and some do not and should be abandoned by it. The problem is that the human gamble only works if there is a record of experimental outcomes and if decision [ Read more ]

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If I Wanted America to Fail…

May 17, 2012

 

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Money Not So Well Spent – 71% of NH Schools Fail to Meet Adequate Yearly Progress

April 3, 2012

Hat tip to NH Watchdog first and foremost, for reporting this story. (CONCORD) 71% of New Hampshire schools failed to meet improvement benchmarks in the latest annual progress reports released today by the New Hampshire Department of Education. Over 66% of New Hampshire school districts failed to make the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is either [ Read more ]

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GrokTALK! (Special “Equipment Failure” Edition)

March 26, 2011

The problem with having the Fail Gremlin on the program is that you can’t have anyone else on the program because there is no live program.

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