Tag Archives: education

Common Core Complaints Co-Opted

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Dude Where's My Freedom?

I’m starting to miss the good old days, when the only media coverage of “Common Core” consisted of Glenn Beck ranting about how it was a giant conspiracy led by Bill Gates to brainwash your children into buying Microsoft products.  … Continue reading →

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Some Children Left Behind… Maybe

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Dude Where's My Freedom?

Diligent Asian students dominate global exam. I’d just like to bring this to everyone’s attention, as it directly relates to my previous piece on standardized testing.  This article is a great example of the sort of thing I was talking … Continue reading →

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Published!

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Dude Where's My Freedom?

Taxpayers Pay It Forward : The Freeman : Foundation for Economic Education. Hey, whaddya know?  Turns out I wasn’t just blowing smoke after all.  A couple weeks ago, I wrote a piece criticizing a new program for financing college in … Continue reading →

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Do We Really Need “Better” Schools?

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Dude Where's My Freedom?

When debating the merits of privatization with statists, they will often attempt to frame the debate in terms of:  “Explain to me how you can be sure that the private sector will produce better schools/roads/police/military protection than the government does.”  … Continue reading →

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The Government Is Not “The Country” (Neocons Say The Darndest Things)

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Dude Where's My Freedom?

Ralph Peters on O’Reilly: Schools Teaching Kids That U.S. Government Is Bad | Fox News Insider. This is an… interesting clip from Fox News where a “strategic analyst” (whatever that means) makes a bizarre leap of logic.  He seems to … Continue reading →

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The ABCT Explains The Student Loan Bubble

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Dude Where's My Freedom?

  Everything you need to know about the student loan rate hike. 2007 Trends in Higher Education Series:  Student Loans I’ve heard a lot of whining over the last few days from the college student crowd over the impending doom … Continue reading →

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Educational Fallacies

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Dude Where's My Freedom?

(Note:  I originally wrote this piece several months ago, when the Chicago teacher’s strike was ongoing.  In true slacker/procrastinator fashion, I held off on posting it, because I was going to submit it to a few sites for publication, which … Continue reading →

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It’s About Education

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Dude Where's My Freedom?

How very timely!  Shortly after receiving some rather odd criticism from a bunch of statists (they were insisting that if I really believed in anarchy, I should be out in the streets actively fighting the government at this very moment), … Continue reading →

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Statists in Steubenville

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Dude Where's My Freedom?

The case of the alleged rape of a teenage girl by members of the high school football team in Stubenville, Ohio has many different dynamics in play that have created some quite vitriolic debate on message boards across the Internet.  … Continue reading →

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In Focus – Not Where They Hoped They’d Be – The Atlantic

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Dude Where's My Freedom?

In Focus – Not Where They Hoped They’d Be – The Atlantic. Stories like this one always seem to rub me the wrong way.  The point is always to portray the result as somehow deeply tragic.  Look at these poor … Continue reading →

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