4396 8 AP by MONA SALAMA17 Mar 20172,615 Teachers’ unions are cheering the news that New York state education officials have killed off a literacy test which successfully revealed that almost a third of candidate teachers cannot meet eight-grade standards. Members of the New York state Board of Regents voted on Monday to eliminate the literacy exam which revealed the prospective teachers’ poor reading and writing skills, saying the controversial test is “flawed” and that it puts Latino and African-American teacher applicants at an unfair disadvantage. Advocates of testing said the decision to kill the literacy test will lower teaching standards,
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Rush Limbaugh – March 14, 2017 Hey, folks, a little pop quiz. What do the Congressional Budget Office and the National Weather Service have in common? Well, you can call it fake, but certainly some of the wackiest forecasting that we have ever encountered. Do you realize they canceled 8,000 flights in the Northeast for what’s gonna turn out to be four to eight inches of snow? And I know what you’re gonna say. “That’s okay, Rush, they got the forecast right. They just missed by a couple hundred miles where, but the intensity of the snow, there
Read more ... →The student Left’s culture of intolerance is creating a new generation of conservatives Student demands for censorship get a lot of coverage. Spiked Online’s Free Speech University Rankings, now in its third annual edition, argues that there is a “crisis of free speech on campus”.By analysing the censorious policies and actions that have taken place on British campuses, Spiked concluded that 63.5 per cent of universities actively censor speech and 30.5 per cent stifle speech through excessive regulation. You can barely go a few days without encountering a new op-ed covering censorship on campus.Maajid Nawaz describes the students demanding censorship as members of the “regressive left”.
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