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Educational ineptitude Retired Indiana University (of Pennsylvania) physics professor Donald E. Simanek has assembled considerable data on just who becomes a teacher. Freshman college students who choose education as a major "are on the average, one of the academically weakest groups. …To improve teaching, we must attract people of higher intellectual ability and we must make teacher salaries related to ability and effectiveness. We must ensure that teachers have more academic freedom, better working conditions and a suitable environment for teaching. An important component of that environment is the capacity to remove students who are alien and hostile to the education process. Finally, we should consider curriculum changes that eliminate courses that have little, if anything, to do with reading, writing and arithmetic. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20040310.shtml

Gay marriage confusion – Thomas Sowell http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20040309.shtml

The globalization of quotas – Thomas Sowell http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20040310.shtml

The Passion Police - First off, “The Passion” is not anti-Semitic, it is pro-history. Do the Jews want to erase from the historical record the carnage of the holocaust and its perpetrators because it makes Germans uncomfortable? I don’t think so. …And these morons who laugh and eat popcorn while watching meaningless death are now offended at Gibson’s meaningful, historically accurate portrayal of Jesus’ scourging and crucifixion?... Are you afraid the film is going to assist a Judeo/Christian effort to bring truth and dignity back to this country? Are you afraid that righteousness is once again going to be re-introduced into our land before you secularly sink it?  http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/04Mar/mar1for.htm

The direct way to school finance reform http://tx4tx.org/email/March%205/DirectWaytoFinance.htm

Enough is spent on education – but not on instruction Our schoolchildren and teachers deserve for more than half the dollars spent on education to be spent in the classroom.

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