Education

Obey Kim Jong-Un graffitti

The signs of tyranny are rising like the tide.

By Justin Katz | June 28, 2021 |

It’s long, but the conversation between Jordan Peterson and North Korean defector Yeonmi Park on the former’s podcast is well worth a listen. Most of the episode is a description of Park’s experiences as she transitioned from the national concentration camp of North Korea to sex slavery in China to despised minority in South Korea…

Giovanni Bellini Four Allegories: Falsehood

Here’s a perfect summary of the latest trends in education.

By Justin Katz | June 26, 2021 |

Linking to an interview with history writer Mary Grabar, Instapundit Glenn Reynolds captures the point, as he so often does, with a single sentence that’s worth memorializing: The version of history the left/academia are serving up is the kind of history you’d impose on a conquered people whose will you were trying to break. Exactly.  Consciously…

Map of best and worst run U.S. cities

Where Providence is run poorly is where it matters (and Warwick, too).

By Justin Katz | June 25, 2021 |

On first look, Rhode Islanders might not be inclined to despair that our capital city ranks 89 among 150 cities reviewed for on the WalletHub list of “2021’s Best- & Worst-Run Cities in America.”  Our state has been run so poorly for so long that being (roughly) middle-of-the-pack on a list is something of a…

Map of states' civics and history standards

A Fordham study of states’ civics and U.S. history standards flunks Rhode Island.

By Justin Katz | June 25, 2021 |

As Rhode Island’s progressive and education establishments go to war with parents over their plan to indoctrinate children with critical race theory (CRT), a study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute gives Rhode Island a D for civics and an F for U.S. History, with five pages of blistering analysis, summarized thus: Rhode Island’s civics…

Jeremy Palmer's arrest in Chariho

Urban parents should take note of the suburbs.

By Justin Katz | June 24, 2021 |

A major theme currently peppering my news feed from across the country is suburban parents being arrested while speaking out at school committee meetings.  John DePetro has video of one such man, Jeremy Palmer, at a school committee meeting in the Chariho district.  Another parent in that district, Kelly Sullivan, describes the multiracial opposition to…

Romeo and Juliet

If children can choose their sex, why can’t they choose marriage?

By Justin Katz | June 22, 2021 |

As my opening question hints, the support for legislation making Rhode Island the fifth state in the country to ban child marriage earlier this month was so uniform that it couldn’t help but excite my contrarian nature.  Writing in Forbes, Ryan Sasse of UNICEF’s praise was particularly profuse: With the enactment of H5387/S398 on June 7,…

Old painting of fighting puppets

The march against the Nonviolence Institute is more evidence we’re being played against each other.

By Justin Katz | June 22, 2021 |

In fascinating juxtaposition to the excuse-making that progressive Democrat U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is enjoying, the folks from Direct Actions for Rights and Equality (DARE) marched in protest of money given to the Nonviolence Institute.  Courtney Carter reported on it for WPRI: This week, [organizer Cedric] Russell co-released a public letter addressed to the institute,…

CCSU's crane nooses

Step back and think about the noose mania on campuses.

By Justin Katz | June 21, 2021 |

It turns out, as College Fix editor Jennifer Kabbany reports, that the moral panic at Central Connecticut State University over an American flag hoisted on a crane above a noose was not a racist provocation: A construction company building a parking structure at Central Connecticut State University had hoisted an American flag at the end of…

Google computer start screen

Artificial intelligence could lock in an infant ideology born of hate, and it can happen to students, too.

By Justin Katz | June 18, 2021 |

A central concern about the development of artificial intelligence is that it will depend so heavily (at least for its starting point) on the input of the people who created it.  A Daily Wire article by Luke Rosiak about social-justice turmoil in the Google “Ethical AI” team provides a detail of just how short-sighted a launch…

No Tolerance for Ignorance sign

A step in the right direction on campaigning via school lists.

By Justin Katz | June 16, 2021 |

Legislation from Democrat state Senator Leonidas Raptakis (S0089) and Democrat state Representative Patricia Serpa (H5830) begins to address the abuse of school information: The General Assembly tonight passed legislation sponsored by Sen. Leonidas P. Raptakis and Rep. Patricia A. Serpa which prohibits the use of a school district’s listserv to distribute any political advertisement, invitation,…