Edward East (quoted by John West in Darwin Day in America, ISI Books, page 129) Nature eliminates the unfit and preserves the fit… Her fool-killing devices were highly efficient in the olden days before civilisation came to thwart her. It is man, not Nature, who has caused all the trouble. He has put his whole …
Sandra Day O’Connor called a conference on the state of the judiciary in 2006. She commented about it recently in the New York Times, where she drew exactly the wrong conclusion from exactly the right premises. The overwhelming consensus coming out of that conference was that public education is the only long-term solution to preserving …
Some encouraging news from Diane Ravitch, unquestionably one of the great historians of education at work today. The regrettable demise of the Council for Basic Education has been responded to by the formation of a new research group called Common Core. Here’s how Ms. Ravitch described it: We hope to sponsor research, conduct conferences, publish …
