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Posts Tagged ‘Education’

College Diminishes Faith

Therefore we should stop giving money to them. And now, a word from the next president of the United States:

Are you annoyed by those pesky Indians and Black folk?

All that whinging and hand wringing about slavery, taking the land from the Indians, and all that stuff is very annoying, especially when the assertion is made that our founding fathers had anything do to with all that. Even though they did. But still, it is very annoying to have the names of those who [...]

A scientist’s atheism must be declared along side his/her theory if taught in a New Hampshire public school

… if House bill 1148, introduced by Republican Jerry Bergen is passed into law. It is only in the pre-file stage,but it will be taken up in the upcoming 2012 session of the New Hampshire legislature. Specifically, the bill says:

Teacher Responds to Rick Perry

This is very, very good:

I need your help to CRUSH all the other bloggers!!!!

The competition is fierce. This isn’t only Free Thought Blogs vs. other blogging networks. This is also blogger against blogger. I need you to visit my donation page and GIVE MONEY TO WORTHY SCHOOLS. Remember last summer’s tornado in North Minneapolis? North is one of the more challenged neighborhoods in the region, with a high [...]

I am fed up with all this talk about education reform. Coming from you.

I am fed up with people’s unending numb-skull suggestions on education reform, and I’m about to offend some people in that regard. Check your twitter feed, your facebook streams, your other snorking tools over a period of time and you’ll see the occasional comment on either what is wrong with our system of education, or [...]

Should a teacher be sued for describing creationism as “superstitious nonsense”?

Steven Newton has an interesting piece on the case of James Corbett, who was sued for “improper disapproval of religion in violation of the Establishment Clause. In 2009, a judge considered Corbett’s statements and found only one — that creationism is “superstitious nonsense” — to be an “improper disapproval of religion in violation of the [...]