June 15, 2009

Racial Gaps Drive School Policy, Part CMXXVII

In the wake of the Sputnik wake-up call in 1957, two of America's most distinguished technical managers, Admiral Hyman Rickover of the nuclear submarine navy and chemist James Conant, President of Harvard, debated how to improve schooling. Rickover advocated that America imitate the European system of separate schools for academic and vocational students based on ability testing. Conant countered by suggesting that rather than have separate schools, we should have large comprehensive schools with intensive tracking by ability within them.

The Testing Industry Gold Rush

One of the odder phenomenon is that as political correctness grows, so does that most politically incorrect of businesses, standardized testing. You might think that standardized testing would be a stagnant industry, what with the fact that it would appear to be the classic mature industry--there haven't been fundamental innovations in testing since the middle of the last century--and that the results it comes up with are viewed with deep suspicion by the courts and the media.

And yet, it's booming.

Peter Brimelow On The Don Kroah Show At 4:15 Eastern

Peter Brimelow will be a guest today on The Don Kroah Show at 4:15 p.m. ET and on The Tom Roten Show tomorrow morning at 7:35 a.m. to discuss his article, Holocaust Museum Hullaballoo Reveals 'Hate Crimes” Hypocrisy.'

The Don Kroah Show airs in the Washington DC area and can be streamed live here.

The Tom Roten program airs in Huntington, West Virginia and can be streamed live here.

I Knew When I Saw This "SUV" Story

I knew when I saw this "SUV" story on Ann Althouse's site

Monday, June 08, 2009

"We see the people stacked like wood frequently."

"If they had had the right number of people in there and they all had their seat belts on, they would have lived." 10 passengers died in one SUV.

(Bill) Clinton Celebrates Demographic Transformation

On June 13th, 2009, speaking to an Arab-American group, former president Bill Clinton celebrated the rapid demographic transformation taking place in our country.

As reported in an article by Christine Simmons,"Bill Clinton: United States Growing More Diverse" :

Mexico's National University Wins Prestigious Award

It happens all the time -- illegal alien teens complain at length that state-sponsored colleges and universities in America are not cheap enough for them, and the press is happy to assist by supplying sob stories.

Sonia Sotomayor's Double Standards