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• The Psychical Research Foundation
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:32:43 PM, by Robert Bruce Baird) Karen was the name of the reception person, who sat behind the desk one Saturday morning around noon when I dropped in. I had never heard about them and was actually planning to find the J.B. Rhine Institute or the Federation for Research on the Natu...
• Public-School Excuse #1 -- Give Us More Money!
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:32:43 PM, by Joel Turtel) If more money meant better education for our kids, our public schools should have vastly improved over the last 75 years. Yet the reverse is true. In dollars adjusted for inflation, public schools spent about $876 per year for elementary and secondary ...
• Ancient Greece Did Not Need Licensed Teachers
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:32:43 PM, by Joel Turtel) Contrary to popular notions, teacher licensing in public schools does not insure teacher quality. A license also does not even insure that a public-school teacher is an expert in the subject she teaches. In fact, in our upside-down public-school system...
• Surprise -- Public School Class Size Doesn't Matter Very Much
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:32:42 PM, by Joel Turtel) School authorities often complain that classes are too large. They claim that teachers can’t be expected to give their students the individual attention they need if there are too many students in the class. On the surface, this excuse seems to have s...
• Public Schools -- Bad Education, Year After Year?
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:32:42 PM, by Joel Turtel) If a store sells inferior products or a business gives bad service, most customers will not come back and that store or business will eventually go bankrupt. If public schools sell bad education, year after year, why don’t they go bankrupt? Why aren’t...
• For Goodness 'Sake', Are You Drunk?
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:32:42 PM, by Nick Johnson) The Samurai are known for been one of the most respected and respectable class of citizens of ancient Japan. Such status had the samurai they could do things such as dismember people who offended them without having to answer for themselves. This was ...
• Public-School True Believers With A Mission
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:32:42 PM, by Joel Turtel) One reason public schools get away with educational failure, year after year, is because they are run by school officials who passionately believe in what they are doing. As the great English writer C. S. Lewis wrote, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sinc...
• Policy Separated from Politics
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:32:42 PM, by Robert Bruce Baird) Policy Separated from Politics: I am related to Hamiltons who came to Canada as United Empire Loyalists but I cannot say for sure they were related to this man who clearly was also a monarchist. William Hamilton Stewart is one of the Stuart...
• School Choice Will Destroy The Public Schools? -- Maybe That's A
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:32:42 PM, by Joel Turtel) Public-school defenders often argue that school choice would destroy the public schools. Almost 90 percent of children in this country attend public schools. If we had vouchers, no compulsory attendance laws, and an unregulated education free market, ...
• Women in Sudan
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:32:42 PM, by Marian Antoch) Sudan was once called the "breadbasket" of Africa; a land of enormous potential. Where people from diverse religions and ethnicities co-existed in relative peace. And although most people seldom thought about it and knew it only as "some country" in ...

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