In respponse to an LA Times op-ed on the“Mommy wars” as a “false battle,” Janet Galt explains why conflict between career and at-home mothers is real. There are economic, political and cultural externalities to women’s choices.
According to the Times’ column, “There’s no ‘one right way’ to raise a child; stay-at-home moms and working moms […]
Archive for May, 2008
Datelined April 1, Education Gladfly has the latest in education news:
Next Friday, the American Enterprise Institute will host an event to celebrate the release of Frederick M. Less’s newest book, Hey Baby, Don’t be Stupid!, an elaboration of Less’s “tough love” theory of education reform. In his latest work, the twelfth so far this year, […]
Eduwonk and Russo question the NY Times’ “narrowing the curriculum” spin on the Center for Education Policy report, which says schools are spending somewhat more time on reading and math to meet federal targets under No Child Left Behind. In addition, The Quick and the Ed points out that low-performing urban schools usually didn’t offer […]
Thousands of Hispanic students are walking out of Los Angeles schools to protest a federal bill that would make illegal immigration a felony. It’s The Wrong Protest, writes Xiaochin Yan in Pacific Research’s Capital Ideas.
Partly to blame is that for years basic skills such as reading, writing, and math have been obscured by multiculturalism, self-esteem, […]
Thanks to all the bloggers who are mentioning my book, Our School for my birthday blogburst. How old am I? Well, I remember Grandma Tillie’s “Madly for Adlai” button and my father’s “I Like Ike,” both of which rhymes I admired greatly.
I’ve spotted book posts on Cathy’s World, Wizbang, The Ed Wonks, Random Jottings, Bookworm […]
Boys are the new victim class in education, writes Heather MacDonald in City Journal. But don’t expect girls to give up victim status. In the 21st century, everybody’s a victim!
Boys are poised to become the newest victim class, requiring a sturdy structure of advisors, trainers, and counselors just to get by. The requisite helping […]
In Wisconsin, New Berlin public schools are selling naming rights to just about everthing. At the Ronald Reagan Elementary School, the entrance, cafeteria and other public areas, will be the “InPro Commons Area,” reports the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
The InPro corporate sponsorship, which is worth $150,000 to the district, is the first of what New […]
A school board in a Pittsburgh suburb killed the challenging International Baccalaureate program “on the grounds that it is Marxist, anti-Christian, un-American and too costly,” reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Essentially, IB is seen as too internationalist, reports the Guardian.
(Anti-IB board members) object to the largely secular, multi-cultural bent of the curriculum and its emphasis […]
I’m going to Chicago today, though I’ll try to blog from the road. Tomorrow, which is my birthday, I’ll go to a big party — for my future husband’s aunt and uncle’s 50th anniversary. John figures I’ll get champagne and he won’t have to pay for it. Remember, all I want for my […]
Cathy Seipp is taking heat for writing about her daughter, who will finish high school in three years and, after a string of rejections, got into UC-San Diego (congratulations!) instead of “prostitute college.”
As a twice-weekly op-ed columnist, I wrote about my daughter all the time. I even wrote about the time she was run […]
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