COVID-19 is a health crisis that has affected most nations around the world. To manage the spread of this virus, most countries have decided to close all learning institutions. This crisis is making things difficult especially for government heads.
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Stuck Inside? Try Some Free Online Courses Care-Of Cambridge, Harvard, and MIT
With all this talk about distance learning and online education for the kiddies, did you stop for a second and consider your own? You can and should because there are thousands of free online college classes from which to choose.
Radical Leftist Professors Worry Online Learning Lectures Will End up On Right-Wing Web Sites
I’d like to thank Emily Farris. Who’s that? She is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University. She is concerned that recoded lectures on anything controversial could end up on web sites like GraniteGrok. Capital Idea!
The Most Important Thing We Can Do is Learn from This Outbreak
Applying a smidgen of logic to what we have already observed will go a long way towards understanding the ‘real’ Coronavirus. While many ‘experts’ contend doom and gloom are around every corner, I prefer to let common sense take over.
Ed-icaid: A Better Word for the Failed Government Monopoly on Education?
The government-run public school experiment has failed. Costs are out of control, and most of the money is spent on overhead, in other words, typical of government interventions. We’re wasting millions annually, at every opportunity, to pay staff and managers who have nothing to do with teaching.
Education Worship: When Anything is Made an End in itself it Becomes a False God
America is engaged in education worship. When anything is made an end in itself it becomes a false god. All things must be a means to achieving goodness. Why else should people exist? Sometimes we lack wisdom or perhaps we lose perspective. Today we seem to be doing that with education.
A New Path to Careers for NH High School Students
When we talk about students who are not succeeding in our current education system, we often say that they “slipped through the cracks.” Well, what if we filled in those cracks so that students could move seamlessly from high school to college to the workforce?
Who has your child’s data in school?
After reading through an opinion piece written by William R. Harbron Ed.D, superintendent of the Dover School District in Dover: Education in Dover: What is social and emotional learning and why you should care, I noticed he left many important issues out of this new federal education policy that parents need to be aware of. Should government schools … Read more
School funding: How much is enough?
There is a question that should be asked of anyone who wants to make a case for increasing the amount that we spend on public schools. Usually, they just say that the amount needed is ‘more than it is now’.
But how much more?
So kids, what did we learn from Thursday’s House Session (Morning: 02/20/20)?
We learned that in the morning some very good things took place. So I will start with that. The Merrimack Delegation stood together to honor the late Hon. Pete Batula. He was a good man. May his memory be a blessing always. The House made note to honor Black History Month, with members of the … Read more
Brilliant! Team Trump Twitter Video Takes Nancy and Her Speech Tearing Antics to the Wood Shed
My first take on the State of the Union was that Nancy screwed up. Tearing up the speech was terrible optics. A speech loaded with good news (in particular) for women and minorities. Pelosi tore it up and team Trump is making Democrats pay a price.
Should government schools teach civics?
Now and then, I hear conservatives calling for ‘more civics classes in schools’. And my first thought is always the same: How can these people seriously think that government-controlled schools are the right places to be teaching civics?
Education Tax Credits Survive Senate Committee
New Hampshire’s Education Tax Credits survive Senate Committee, unanimously. The New Hampshire Senate Ways & Means Committee held a hearing this morning on the Education Tax Credits. Well, they heard a bill to alter the program, that is. All five members of the Committee voted to ITL (kill) the bill. They are: Majority Leader Dan … Read more
Washington State ‘Free College’ Promise Collapsing Before it Gets Started
Giving away other people’s money is the foundation of Democrat Party Politics. You’ve been wronged, give us power and we’ll make sure someone else pays to “fix it.”
SCOTUS Looks Ready to Tip Over Another Left-Wing Crap Wagon
New Hampshire Democrats have tied their government school monopoly to a crap wagon. It’s filled with the words “tax dollars can go to religious schools.” It’s in the NH state Constitution. Well, the US Supreme Court may be about to toss that limitation in Montana and that could tip over the NH crap wagon.
The Kids Climate Case Dismissed For Lack of Standing – Are NH Courts Paying Attention?
The kids’ climate case was a class-action lawsuit. The idea was to get the courts to force the government into action on catastrophic climate change. Failing or refusing to do so violates the kid’s rights to life, liberty, and property.
More Attacks on Learn Everywhere
Children learn through a variety of activities, including those outside the traditional school environment and schedule. This is no different if the student is five-years-old or fifteen.
What Is The Perfect Cost Of Education?
Parents, guardians, and students want to calculate the cost of college before enrollment. It helps with budgeting and reserving finances for other expenses. You also have to consider other factors not entered in the fees like professional dissertation writing and social life. The real cost of education will depend on several factors, as outlined below. … Read more
Learn Everywhere? No – you MUST learn HERE!
The Learn Everywhere program was an innovative program passed into law that allowed the Commissioner and Board of Education to create rules that allowed curriculum performed outside of the classroom to count for High School credit. Each School District, if the rules were adopted, would be ‘forced’ to accept said credits, even if performed by … Read more
Well, Here We Are 2020, (Now What?)
We are headed, not only into the new year but into a new decade. Some are calling it the kickoff to the Roaring Twenties redux. Let’s hope not. Voters are facing some incredibly important decisions. Absolutely everything is on the line. Heads up, it is time to defend your values and principles before it is too late.