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13 Nov 2012

The One World Schoolhouse

Of all the institutions within our society, education has been perhaps the most resistant to change. By and large, public schools still model their curricula after guidelines established in 1892. Salman Khan, founder of the online Khan Academy, says radical reform is long overdue.

Originally conceived to help his 12-year-old cousin learn math, Khan Academy now offers free online lectures and video tutorials to more than 6 million students each month. Videos covering topics as diverse as mathematics, physics, history and economics have garnered more than 200 million views and generated significant funding from both the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Google.

Reason.TV’s Nick Gillespie sat down with Khan to discuss how to fundamentally transform American education, why technology is never the solution reformers expect and how massive amounts of money go missing every day in conventional public schools.

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15 Oct 2012

Old School

Hear about Bill Whittle’s trip to Oberlin College in Ohio, one of the most liberal colleges in America. While Whittle is grateful for the hospitality of his hosts, he was shocked by the campus intolerance, especially the limitations on freedom of speech. Hear what Whittle saw, and why he thinks liberalism is a regressive rather than a progressive ideology, in this edition of Afterburner.

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25 Sep 2012

Teachers Do the Perp Walk

Why are so many teachers getting frisky with underage students? Is law enforcement improving or more teachers just turning into pervs? Here’s a look at how the perp walk has replaced the cake walk as a common pastime in our schools. H/T Next Media Animation

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11 Sep 2012

In Russia, Student Teaches You

A Russian teacher berating a little girl for her failings in English class gets a lesson in humility after taking his admonishments too far. H/T Blazing Cat Fur

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08 Sep 2012

The Education Machine

Did you know that we are spending more money on education than ever, but we’re not seeing better results for our children? That’s because the money going to schools isn’t designed to improve grades or test scores, but instead to fuel a well-greased, perpetual-motion machine involving teachers, their unions and the politicians they support.

Reason.TV breaks down how the Machine works, and how it robs parents of their tax dollars, while simultaneously depriving students of a brighter future.  Evan Coyne Maloney wrote and narrated this piece, produced by Reason in cooperation with the Moving Picture Institute (www.MovingPictureInstitute.org).

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24 Aug 2012

A Genocidal Campaign

The David Horowitz Freedom Center’s chilling new short illustrates how US college campuses have become ground zero in a propaganda campaign being waged by Hamas, Hezbollah and their extreme Islamist allies, including Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood now ruling Egypt, to exterminate the state of Israel. It’s a campaign based on gross historical falsehoods as well as thinly veiled genocidal motives.

The Islamist shock troops, including organizations such as the Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice in Palestine, have erected anti-Israeli “Apartheid Walls” that support a second Holocaust of the Jews. Why have educators who railed so loudly against apartheid in South Africa been conspicuously silent in confronting this band of racist thugs and terrorists?

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20 Aug 2012

Back to School Boot Camp

The Glove and Boots puppets practice tough-love to whip students back into shape for the start of a new school year. Among the invaluable survival tips imparted: “Running fast in gym class. Good! Running fast into brick wall. Bad!” Remember, there are no parents at school and you will have to deal with other students, but if you follow the rules, jerkies, you can make it until next summer. H/T Glove and Boots

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12 Aug 2012

Protests Spur Montreal Debate

Massive student protests in Montreal extending over much of 2012 have spurred a government crackdown on free speech, intensifying the debate over finding the right balance between protecting political dissent and restoring order. The protests, aimed against university tuition hikes, have been mostly peaceful, but incidents of vandalism occurred, and some demonstrators blocked access to public schools and bridges. In response, Quebec’s Liberal provincial government passed Bill 78, which imposed tough measures against the protesters, including stiff fines and restrictions against mobilizing in designated places.

Bill 78 has served as a lightning rod for criticism, condemned as a violation of free speech by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. But many residents welcomed the measure, having grown weary of the protests disrupting everyday commerce in Canada’s second largest city, with a population pushing 3.5 million. Reason.TV traveled to Montreal to explore the controversy and to interview the principals in the conflict, among them the “Anarchopanda,” a junior college philosophy professor dressed in a panda costume who frequently intervened in an effort to diffuse potential violence between students and riot police.

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30 Jul 2012

How Colleges Fight Free Speech

If you aren’t careful about what you say or where you say it, you can run afoul of authorities at nearly two-thirds of the top universities and colleges in the United States. So says the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, which surveyed 392 campuses and found that 65 percent of them have instituted “red-light” policies that “both clearly and substantially restrict freedom of speech.”

“You can get in trouble for saying almost anything these days on a college campus,” FIRE President Greg Lukianoff declares. One common practice: Campuses outlaw debate, protest or political discourse except in designated “free speech zones.” And the zones aren’t necessarily free: Students often need advance approval from administrators before presenting an argument, even within the confines of these zones. Lukianoff asserts that such policies diminish the value of open debate, and ill-serve students by only preparing them for “a culture of uncritical thinking.”

Reason correspondent Kennedy interviewed Lukianoff at this month’s FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition to discussing FIRE, the conversation also touched on Lukianoff’s new book Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate.

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19 Jun 2012

Moonbat Bullies

“Liberal-minded” adult hecklers shout at NYC school children to “burn in hell” for singing Lee Greenwood’s patriotic song “God Bless the USA.” To add insult to injury, the kids were originally scheduled to perform the song at their graduation ceremony at a Brooklyn grade school, only to be ordered to drop the song by their principal, Greta Hawkins.on the grounds that it might “offend other cultures.” Having rehearsed it for months, the kids instead performed the song on their school playground, and that’s where they were greeted by these bullying moonbats. Need any further proof that the ranks of the left are suffering from an advanced case of progressive dementia? Nice to see the kids chant “U-S-A” to drown out the slugs.

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