By Ryan McMaken Mises Institute December 20, 2018 Private Religious Schools Have Long Been Targeted by Governments New York City is gearing up to tighten state controls on the curriculum at private schools for Orthodox Jews known as yeshivas. Some activists against these so-called “ultra-Orthodox” schools claim that they spend too much time on religious and […]
By Aaron Kesel Activist Post October 9, 2018 Schools Pushing For Police-Grade Surveillance Technology To “Protect” Students After the most recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, schools across the U.S. are installing police-grade surveillance “gunshot-detection systems,” metal detectors and even biometric locks requiring facial recognition or a person’s iris, The Atlantic reported. Hermosa Elementary in […]
By Ron Paul Ron Paul Institute September 25, 2018 New Tax Plan Makes It Easier to ‘Ed-exit’ This week the House of Representatives will vote on a package of bills making the temporary tax cuts contained in last year’s tax reform bill permanent and making additional tax law changes. The bills will likely pass […]
By Doug French Mises Institute August 30, 2018 What You Really Pay for In College: Credentials, not Education In Episode 4, Season 3 of “Last Chance U,” Coach Jason Brown told his players, “Ignorance is life threatening, man.” The Independence Juco coach said, “Eighty-nine percent of NFL and NBA players are bankrupt three years […]
By Aaron Kesel Activist Post August 3, 2018 Trump Education Official Claims To Be Law Enforcement Apparently, law enforcement now includes the Department of Education according to an official who described his office’s duty as “law enforcement” and not “social justice.” The Education Department’s assistant secretary for civil rights, Kenneth L. Marcus, made […]
By Aaron Kesel Activist Post July 12, 2018 New App “Report It, Don’t Ignore It” Encourages Students To Spy On Each Other The “Report It, Don’t Ignore It” application released by Henderson County Public Schools is encouraging students to spy on each other and report suspicious activity within the app, Blue Ridge Now reported. Henderson […]
By Mac Slavo SHTFplan.com June 11, 2018 Homeschooling Expands As Parents Seethe Over Liberal Social Engineering And Violence Homeschooling rates are skyrocketing as parents are continually getting more and more upset at the leftist social engineering taking place in public schools. The indoctrination is getting so bad, that some parents are even concerned about […]
By Ron Paul Ron Paul Institute June 4, 2018 Homeschooling Protects Children from Violence and Marxism The February mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida prompted many parents to consider homeschooling. This is hardly surprising, as the misnamed federal “Gun-Free Schools” law leaves schoolchildren defenseless against mass shooters. Removing one’s children from […]
By Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Mises Institute January 12, 2018 The Neglected Costs of the Warfare State: An Austrian Tribute to Seymour Melman Libertarians often point to “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen,” a famous essay in which economist Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850) makes perhaps the most important, if easily neglected, point […]
By Walter E. Williams LewRockwell.com January 10, 2018 Dirty College Secrets A frequent point I have made in past columns has been about the educational travesty happening on many college campuses. Some people have labeled my observations and concerns as trivial, unimportant and cherry-picking. While the spring semester awaits us, let’s ask ourselves […]
By Michael Snyder End Of The American Dream December 15, 2017 You just can’t make this stuff up. All over America we push our young people to get good grades so that they can get “a college education”, but then once they get through college many of our young people are completely unequipped to […]
By Against Crony Capitalism November 15, 2017 Harvard professor predicts half of U.S. colleges will be bankrupt within 10-15 years Given the inefficiencies (and the general cronyism) in colleges today I can’t see how the system continues as it is for all that much longer. “College” is an industry that is primed for […]
