Cal State’s 23 campuses will remain shuttered this fall, with its 480,000 students continuing education online. It’s the first major American university to announce what could become the death of the American college experience. But could it actually be the salvation of a college education? FREE Patriot’s Primer on American Liberty from our friends at […]
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Singer Alanis Morissette says she un-schools her kids at home, following their inclinations, rather than guiding them, or boring them, with rote learning. But are children born into a Jean Jacques Rousseau Utopia where they are naturally predisposed to do the right thing. As you’re growing up, is there anything ‘You Oughta Know’? Right Angle […]
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules that Detroit schools fail to provide an ‘adequate education’, and are “schools in name only” — bereft of proper books or teacher training, and often infested with rats. The court says — in Gary B. v. Whitmer — that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution contains […]
Is four minutes the new eternity? That’s what many think when it comes to internet video, but has the average attention span fallen so far that it’s become nearly impossible to train the next generation of engineers? The men of Right Angle examine a phenomenon that poses a threat to our entire educational system. Right […]
In 2014, the Obama education department told public schools they should avoid suspending or expelling students of color because they were being punished three times more often than Whites. Trump’s education team just yanked that guidance. Will Black students suffer, or are all students safer? Right Angle — with Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott […]
White Privilege in Education
One kid’s perspective changed after a summer program showed him what his rich white peers were doing for college. Is white privilege as simple as having parents who can afford camp? The guys discuss their experiences. GOOGLE PLAY: https://goo.gl/MIDmxD ITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bill-whittle/id1211494077 SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/billwhittle/white-privilege-in-education Don’t want to become a member? You can still support Bill Whittle! […]
RIGHT ANGLE: SCHOOL CHOICE
For decades, the left has chosen to put teachers unions above children’s education. Does Donald Trump’s pick for Education Secretary mean choice may be at hand?
THE STRUGGLE FOR STUPIDITY
Sci-Fi Author Jerry Pournelle recently re-published a sixth grade reader from 1914. In his latest FIREWALL, Bill Whittle explains how full comprehension of a single paragraph from that hundred-year-old elementary school textbook eludes virtually all of today’s college graduates; shows why it is such a sin, and reveals the Progressive Struggle for Stupidity in all […]