In 1963, Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech. That was 12 years before my birth, and much has changed since then. The issues that are at work now are issues that are very different from the issues that were at work back then. This is my take on the...
Like Communism, libertarianism is an ideology that looks good on paper. According to libertarianism, everyone is responsible for themselves and nothing else. The question becomes whether this ideology is as good in practice as it appears in writing. And the verdict for that...
Out-of-control spending has been an issue for a number of years. The issue that is not discussed but should be discussed is this. Not all spending is created equal, and mattering as much as the quantity of spending is its quality. And this is something that should be...
(Colombo, Lankapuvath) In a dramatic turn of events avoiding any further delay, the Education Ministry and the Examinations Department have moved in quite swiftly to release the results of the GCE (Advance Level) Examination in 2011 at any moment today, well placed sources...
The problem with people making life decisions when they are very young is that they do not come from the position of adequate knowledge. They know only what they have been taught; and if what they have learned were incomplete or corrupt, then it will take them a long time to...
“There is a huge demand for skilled IT professionals from the country, especially from offshore. More and more IT work, especially software development, is moving from India, Eastern Europe and China to the Philippines because of the growing reputation of Filipino IT...
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It was almost two years ago when the Rode Island school board decided to dismiss an entire high school faculty because of the students continued failure to achieve even the slightest improvement in academics. This wasn't the answer to what has and...
The woman in the picture getting a chocolate syrup bath and a dance from what appears to be a male stripper is a South Bronx principal...read more: http://www.insaneasylumblog.com/2011/12/principal-in-trouble-over-facebook.html#axzz1fW5Z2kgJ
By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"I am not too impressed with the level of public education. But is private education the solution? In economics textbooks, education often appears as a "public good." Contrary to common misconceptions,...
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Should the government make it illegal, and a felony at that, for two consenting adults to have sex? Well, Republicans are actually pretty big on making certain acts of consenting adults, illegal. They are the strongest supporters of prostitution laws, a sizable percentage...
Over the last few weeks, i have got to know six people much better: Pinky, Z, Kay – and – three Americans: Christy, Kaylie, and Reagan. Christy is mom to Kaylie and Reagan. Pinky, Z, and Kay are students in China – all studying very different things (communication...
On Saturday, October 1, 2011, the sound of thousands of sneakers pounding the pavement will be heard along the Upper West Side as hundreds of runners gather together to take aim at the epidemic that threatens to shorten the lifespan of today’s kids – childhood obesity....
Nature in Economics The economic process involves and affects a large number of aspects. While classical economics is concerned mostly with the entrepreneur, other economists have emphasized other economic...
How Today's Kids learn Alphabet There were the days when A stood for Apple, the fruit. Now it stands for Apple, the company that makes widely used iPods and Mac. If you are kid these days, you will...
A student is leading a campaign to abolish the tuition fees ‘apartheid’ which discriminates against the English. Jennifer Watts, 19, has founded a lobby group and joined forces with human rights lawyers who...