Eyes on Education

Bill Ayers and the Legacy of '60s Radicals in Education  On the evening of May 7 at the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles, Dr. Mary Grabar, who taught college English for 20 years and has been writing about education for the last 10 years, will discuss the influence of 1960s radical Bill Ayers and his comrades, and offer strategies for fighting it.  Mary Grabar was born in Slovenia but her parents took her and fled the communist regime to Rochester, New York. She went on to teach in colleges and universities in Georgia for 20 years, earning a Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia in 2002.  Today she is a dissident to the reigning political correctness on our college campuses. She came to conservatism after witnessing the deliberate destruction of our literary heritage and our respect for the West and for the United States by radical professors in her graduate seminars. In 2011 she founded the Dissident Prof Education Project, Inc., dedicated to “resisting the re-education of America.”   I recently posed to Ms. Grabar some questions about her book and the upcoming presentation.

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American Children Continue to Fail History  - The latest national test scores in U.S. history and civics are out, and they continue to tell a depressing tale. More than four in five American children are still not proficient in their national history. This means eighth graders had difficulty with multiple-choice questions asking them to identify leading abolitionists, explaining how the role of government changed because of the New Deal, choosing the most significant reason early Americans formed the Continental Congress, and identifying which war the United States entered to prevent the spread of Communism.  The story today is the same as when national history instruction leader Will Fitzhugh wrote concerning the 2007 release of the same data:.....