Tag Archives: Higher Ed

News of the Week for Feb. 10th, 2013

Posted on February 10, 2013 by The Political Hat

  News of the Week for Feb. 10th, 2013

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Progressives’ Final Solution

Posted on February 7, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The use of racial divisiveness has long been a hallmark of the Progressive Left.  The stoking of racial hatred and ignorance at universities by peddling “critical race theory” or other such grievance studies and attempts to push “multiculturalism” has grown … Continue reading →

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All Your Children Are Belong To Us

Posted on February 6, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Defenders of the status quo in educations can oft paint truly horrific scenes of children being harmed, brainwashed, or left behind due to “evil” “Reich-wing” conservatives; typically the proffered villains are the evil “corporations” since that is what corporations do, … Continue reading →

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Kyriarchy

Posted on January 30, 2013 by The Political Hat

     What is “kyriarchy” and just what does it have to do with core ethos of the radical Progressive left? “Kyriarchy” is the framework through which the Progressive left views race, gender, class, and sexuality; and it is the framework from … Continue reading →

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News of the Week for Jan. 27th, 2013

Posted on January 27, 2013 by The Political Hat

  News of the Week for Jan. 27th, 2013

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A Case in Point: The Failure of Higher Education

Posted on January 24, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The University of Nevada, Las Vegas has often played second fiddle to its elder sibling in the Nevada System of Higher Education, the University of Nevada, Reno. Though UNLV has so far successfully avoided having a psycho killer named after … Continue reading →

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“You don’t have to know it; you just have to know how to look it up”

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Guest Poster

A guest post from Julie Krauss over at Individual Sovereignty      Back in the late 60’s or early 70’s (when else!), there was a wonderful new theory of education that had been developed and was being taught to high-school (talk about … Continue reading →

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News of the Week for Jan. 20th, 2013

Posted on January 20, 2013 by The Political Hat

News of the Week for Jan. 20th, 2013

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How The Progressive Left Creates Voters

Posted on January 19, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The “American Freshman Survey,” which has measured the characteristics of incoming college Freshmen, including their own self-evaluation.  The most recent survey has indicated that far more than half of students believe they are above average. In effect, college students are … Continue reading →

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Equality of Dunces

Posted on January 10, 2013 by The Political Hat

     One of the core problems with Affirmative Action is that it does not actually address the cause of unequal outcomes when it comes to race.  Proponents are often focused myopically on the equality of outcome, as opposed to the equality … Continue reading →

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