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Having a family member who teaches in a public school gives one a new perspective on the debate over how to reform public education in America.
Can we agree on the following generalizations regarding how politicians on the left and the right propose to improve our public education system?
We need to make teachers and schools accountable [...]
Okay just trying to get your attention with a provocative title.
Background. Every month or two(?) we have an early release day. Pick up first daughter at at McKinley Middle 11:30 a.m. then drive to pick up second daughter at Baton Rouge High. Along the way there is an empty lot with a small trailer that [...]
A post about overheated rhetoric against “conservatives”. Link to a new post at Gay Patriot about “Why Do Some on Left Demonize Dissent”? A comment to that post by the author of the exceptional essay “Hayekian ignorance as cognitive affront” by Thinking Out Loud.
If one is engaged in the politics of salvation, then a sense [...]
Well well well.
Two years ago – read that again – I attended a youth rally in Baton Rouge sponsored by our local Baptist association. During that youth rally someone came on stage and promoted a Christian rally/youth event which would be held during a school day. He offered an argument for (1) why the event [...]
Back in March of this year several members of University Baptist Church attended a Poverty Forum held at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church and sponsored by the Interfaith Federation of Baton Rouge. I was not planning to attend until someone pressured me into going. One key argument is that people wanted to find out about our [...]
Ah yes the controversial address to the schoolchildren of America by President Barack Obama on September 9. Yes we can complain legitimately about the “teaching materials” that the Department of Education first planned to use – and then did not. And yes there have been several attempts to deconstruct dissect and analyze the speech that [...]
My friend Joshua (whom I get to visit when in Atlanta for Catalyst Conference) is a self-described “Socially Liberal, Theologically Conservative, Protestant” whose political views are “Very Liberal”. My intent here is not to debate or quibble with the “socially/politically liberal” part but rather to celebrate one of the most brilliant and concise descriptions of [...]
Obamaism.
Now we have a word to describe the agenda which Krauthammer able summarizes. He begins by noting the significance of his recent speech to the Congress:
If Barack Obama succeeds, his joint address to Congress will be seen as historic — indeed as the foundational document of Obamaism. As it stands, it constitutes the boldest [...]
Well – they did it. SB733 passes 94-3. Now it goes to the Louisiana state Senate to consider an amendment.
Backers contend that the proposal would give science teachers more freedom to hold freewheeling classroom discussions, including arguments that challenge Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Read the whole thing at the Baton Rouge Advocate. You do not [...]
Here we go again. I hate it when Christians sound like fools in public.
To the editor, Baton Rouge Advocate:
Wright’s First Rule of Rhetoric states, When people are in error they will not only contradict but even refute themselves. As evidence I submit letters to the editor in support of the Louisiana Science Education Act (SB [...]
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