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After years of education’s leftward drift, Texas says remember the Alamo, remember America and remember the West. By Selwyn Duke In this age of new math and Newspeak, the term “revised standards” is usually a euphemism for lowered or, worse still, deformed ones. But not so in Texas 2010, where the State Board of Education…
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By Selwyn Duke There was a time when boys of easy virtue had to content themselves with sneaking a peek at the girls’ swim team during practice. But social engineers may make this passé with a proposal to allow boys to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. No, this isn’t the plot of a decadent…
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By Selwyn Duke God may not have a place in the modern American classroom, but the Devil is a different story. That is, at least in one North Carolina high school. After reading the short story “The Devil and Tom Walker” — which involves a character who makes a deal with Satan but then balks…
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By Selwyn Duke Whenever criticizing grammar and punctuation, you run the risk of being labeled punctilious. Worse still, since even many good writers involved in Internet journalism disgorge the odd typo, there’s the chance you will come to be regarded as an expert on the glass-house real estate market. Yet there’s no doubt that the…
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Modern education theory is simply a rationalization that is used to avoid dealing with our real problems By Selwyn Duke We’ve all heard about that proverbial portly dieter, the person who puts no-cal sweetener in his coffee and then uses it to wash down a piece of chocolate cake. It’s an eye-rolling image,…
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By Selwyn Duke There are some things you just can’t make up — and many of them seem to originate in Berkeley, California. Berkeley really is stranger than fiction, and the latest example is a proposal to eliminate science classes at the city’s high school because, get the Digitalis, they’re too white. Thomas Lifson at…
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By Selwyn Duke Spanking is like milk: It does a body good — or at least a mind. No, this isn’t the conclusion of traditionalist parenting expert Dr. James Dobson but the finding of a study conducted by psychology professor Marjorie Gunnoe at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. FoxNews.com reports on the story, writing,…
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By Selwyn Duke When I was a wee lad in elementary school — this was back when global cooling was dogma — we kids had all heard about killer bees. You may remember the story: Scientists in Brazil had bred the African honey bee with a European honey bee and succeeded in creating, well, a…
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By Selwyn Duke A lot has changed since 1960. If Connie Francis were to sing “Where the Boys Are” today, she would not likely be talking about Ft. Lauderdale. And she probably wouldn’t be talking about college, either. This is because, in a decades-old phenomenon, boys have increasingly been stumbling academically. Colleges have taken note…
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By Selwyn Duke If ignorance really were bliss, anti-depressants would not be popped like M&M’s today. This is the conclusion we have to draw if a recent ABC News article entitled “Are We Becoming A Nation of Know-Nothings?” (ironically, ABC erred in capitalizing “a” in their title) is any indication of the true state of…
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