A US Congress bill proposed on Wednesday conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, free-speech advocates say. The measure aims to provide the Department of Education with a legal definition of anti-Semitism to handle discrimination claims. It adopts a 2010 report by a special US State Department envoy to combat anti-Semitism. The document provides a list Read More…
Education
“You Really Still Think It’s All About Guns?”
Is it possible that we Americans only pretend not to notice the conditions that produce an epidemic of school shootings, or is the public just too dumbed-down to connect the dots? Look at the schools themselves. We called them “facilities” because they hardly qualify as buildings: sprawling, one-story, tilt-up, flat-roofed boxes isolated among the parking lagoons out Read More…
Great Educational Youtube Channels For Students
Technology has expanded the amount of educational resources available to us in a huge way. Students twenty years ago didn’t have half the passages and pathways to learning and discovery that we enjoy and take for granted today. On the internet there is an endless amount of resources that are friendly and easy to understand, Read More…
Apparently the “Solution” To Mass Shootings Is To Turn Schools Into Prisons
In response to last week’s shooting at a Florida high school, the state’s governor recently released his plans to make schools safer. Many of his proposals will indisputably serve to further turn schools into prisons, a trend that has been on the rise for years. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Governor Rick Scott’s proposals include: “— $450 Read More…
The State Weaponizes Education to Create Ignorance
Independent Education: the crisis and the crossroad A hundred fifty years ago, at least some Americans recognized that all serious discourse depended on the use of the faculty called Reason. Formal debate, science, and law all flowed from that source. A common bond existed in some schools of the day. The student was expected to Read More…
Drugs, Programming And “Wellness” Checks – Creating Subservience For The Warfare State
https://media.blubrry.com/last_american_vagabond/content.blubrry.com/last_american_vagabond/The_Daily_Wrap_Up-2-4.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSWelcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours. While everyone is still writhing over the implications of the FISA Memo — and if Read More…