Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

These should be given out for free at every library and bookstore we visit.

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Ultimately it will not be the government that protects us from manipulation by the Russians, or other unsavory groups. It will take educ...
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Tuesday, January 02, 2018

States are now pushing for media literacy programs in public schools to battle the proliferation of "fake news."

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Courtesy of the AP :   Alarmed by the proliferation of false content online, state lawmakers around the country are pushing schools to p...
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Friday, December 29, 2017

Here is some good news to start our Friday morning.

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Americans with college degrees are favoring Democrats 16 points more then they did in 2014. Nation as a whole is leaning 10 points more bl...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Donald Trump demonstrates primitive speaking skills even by the standards of an illiterate indigenous people.

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Linguist John McWhorter Courtesy of Trump Impeachment :   Brian Williams interviewed linguistics professor John McWorter on the 11th H...
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Saturday, October 14, 2017

That's Professor Hillary Clinton if you please.

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Courtesy of the New York Daily News :   Hillary Clinton is testing the waters on a return to academia.  The former U.S. Secretary of S...
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Sunday, October 08, 2017

For profit charter schools charge taxpayers for students who do not show up for classes.

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Charter schools touted by @BetsyDeVos lure at-risk students and when they stop coming, the state keeps paying. https://t.co/iB0FOeQHxC —...
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Saturday, September 30, 2017

Barack Obama's alma mater launched a scholarship program in his name.

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Courtesy of Occidental College :   Occidental College today (Actually Wednesday.) announced the launch of its Barack Obama Scholars Pr...
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Lt. General lowers the boom on Air Force Academy's preparatory school over racist messages.

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Courtesy of NPR : After racial slurs were scrawled outside black students' doors at the U.S. Air Force Academy's preparatory sch...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Even out of office Barack Obama continues working to make our future more hopeful.

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I swear every time I hear him talk I am overcome with a wave of nostalgia. Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune : Starting next month, the ...
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Thursday, August 10, 2017

New study finds that the reason that Brexit passed is because Britain is full of uneducated morons. They needed a study for that?

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Courtesy of The Independent :   Britain would have likely voted to remain in the European Union were its population educated to a slight...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Richard Dawkins defends teaching about religion to British children, but not in a way that will make most religious people very happy.

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Courtesy of the Telegraph :   The evolutionary biologist and confirmed atheist warned that it was virtually impossible to study English ...
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Monday, June 12, 2017

It's official, Jerry Falwell Jr. is part of a task force assigned to reform public education.

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Courtesy of The Chronicle : Jerry L. Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, will be part of a White House task force, an offi...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Trump Administration removes virtually ALL mention of climate change, and the science that backs it up, from federal government websites.

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How these pages appeared when we had a real leader in charge of this country. Courtesy of The Guardian :   During inauguration day on ...
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Friday, May 12, 2017

Donald Trump thinks he has invented a new saying.

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Yep, I dood a smart thing. This is from an interview conducted by The Economist :   President Trump: That all goes into tax reduction....
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Saturday, May 06, 2017

It should do the trick.

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Friday, April 28, 2017

Training Day.

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Just so you know I am in training today, which means there may be a delay before I can publish your comments. It might be completely unn...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

This was posted on Facebook by Sarah Palin, a fervent supporter of Donald Trump, without a hint of irony.

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Source I swear that kind of cognitive dissonance is enough to give one an aneurysm. The irony of Sarah Palin attacking college student...
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Monday, April 10, 2017

Harvard students launch "Resistance School" to provide instruction on how to battle back against the Trump presidency.

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Courtesy of Time Magazine :   For more than 15,000 students across the country, Wednesday marked the first day of Resistance School — a ...
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Sunday, March 26, 2017

Sarah Palin uses the Bible to attack education and smear college professors.

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Palin at one of the numerous colleges she attended. Courtesy of Sister Mary Hypocrite's Bible study page : No one can serve two ma...
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Thursday, March 16, 2017

Swedish school children are not only learning how to write computer code, but also how to identify fake news.

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Courtesy of The Local :   Along with programming, the moves to improve digital competence will also include teaching kids how to differe...
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