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Sesame Street, delays language development

This should not be news to anyone. Television is not good, television actually is evil. That and corn of course.
But seriously folks, Kids do not learn from television, they learn from interaction with adults. Tube sucking, that is a term for infants watching television, it may be a great babysitter but […]

Democrat Presidental Debate or How Many Of You Send Your Children To Public Schools?

Of all the questions asked two were most revealing and the answers very telling.
1) How many of you send your kids to public schools?
Most said “no”.
2) How many flew here on private or chartered jets?
Most said “yes”.
These questions and answers to me highlight the vast gulf that exists between us the governed and them the […]

Childhood Obesity Is Not Affected By Access To Sport Facilities

Interesting, a British Study has not been able to correlate childhood obesity levels with the amount of sports a child does or their access to sport facilities.
“Even looking over a period of years, because we repeat these measures year by year in these children, we have been unable to show any relationship between the physical […]

This Is A Union, The Laws Of Economics Don’t Apply Here

Let’s be very clear I believe unions have their place and clearly the benefits I enjoy as a salaryman have their roots in unions. I even have union organizers in my family tree, Great Britain turn of the century, now that was a tough time to be a union man.
Unions clearly overstep their purpose and […]

Circling Sharks

I feel like a sailor whose ship has gone down with the sharks circling in increasingly tight circles.
The sharks would be Gov Rell and the Democrat Houses and there is no lifeboat in sight.
Rell on one side wants to spend massive amounts of additional dollars, billions on education, Amann on the other side wants to […]

No Child Left Behind

It is difficult to find an educator who speaks well of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). It is distained with great vigor. Even though the hallmark of the left Senator Teddy attended the signing with President Bush (the younger) and was seen smiling. How often does the good Senator smile around Republicans?

But in these ~5 […]

There is no correlation between per pupil spending and student academic performance

I keep hearing, “we need to make the investment…..dollars spent now will pay off later in reduced crime, prisons and rehabilitation” this seems reasonable. Everyone knows that investments pay off, right? But where is the proof that this which is obvious is really true?
I can’t find any. I can find articles […]