Tag: Education

• Common Core Is Great!! …Right?!?

  More good links: 1.  Think Like a Nazi….Argue why jews are evil–4th grade common core assignment, Albany, NY: http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/48049380443/common-core-writing-assignment-think-like-a   2.  Suffolk County Education Forum Video:   3.  Attend School Board Meetings: http://www.semissourian.com/blogs/campbell/entry/55546   4.  Common Core: “If You Like Your Curriculum, You Can Keep Your Curriculum”: http://www.cato.org/blog/common-core-you-curriculum-you-can-keep-it   5.  Dr. Gary Thompson Testifies to […]

  bbollmann

  November 5, 2013

  Education

  Common Core, Education

• DESE Common Core Meeting / A lesson in controlling the message

  I attended the DESE Common Core Meeting at 6:30pm on 05/02/13 in Cape Girardeau, MO at the Career and Technology Center, and what I witnessed was mastery of controlling the message.  Of course, there was no prayer or Pledge of Allegiance; this is the school!  Prayers are forbidden by the Constitution and the Pledge is […]

  bbollmann

  May 2, 2013

  Education, Socialism

  Common Core, DESE, Education

• Education: How Tax Breaks Really Work

  Below is a clear reminder of the fallacy of the Liberal thinking on tax breaks!  This should be taught every year at our nation’s high schools. I haven’t seen this discussion of the progressive nature of the tax code recently, so I thought I’d post it again to refresh our collective memory: Suppose that every […]

  bbollmann

  July 26, 2011

  Education, Taxes

  Beer, Education, Tax Breaks, Taxes

• Senator Crowell: On The Missouri State Budget (Part 4)

  By Missouri State Senator Jason Crowell (jcrowell@senate.mo.gov): (Read Part 1 here) (Read Part 2 here) (Read Part 3 here) Missouri’s State Budget We must Stop Balancing the Budget on the Backs of our Children through Education Cuts Over the last few weeks, we have looked at Missouri’s budget numbers and at the Jefferson City politicians’ […]

  bbollmann

  July 22, 2011

  Balanced Budget, Taxes

  Budget, Education, Jefferson City