Education

After 40 years of federalization, more teachers and tons of money looted, US schools are no better.

"For decades we have tried to boost academic outcomes by hiring more teachers, and we have essentially nothing to show for it. In 1970, public schools employed 2.06 million teachers, or one for every 22.3 students, according to the U.S. Department of Education's Digest of Education Statistics. In 2012, we have 3.27 million teachers, one for every 15.2 students.
Yet math and reading scores for 17-year-olds have remained virtually unchanged since 1970, according to the U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress. The federal estimate of high-school graduation rates also shows no progress (with about 75% of students completing high school then and now)."

I think those statistics, like all government statistics, are fudged. They've dumbed down tests. They've dumbed down the SAT. Our schools are worse than they used to be.

Here's a good example of why I call the Ivy League the world's greatest institution for brainwashing smart people with dumb ideas.

"My article arguing for the inclusion of Austrian economics at Columbia University was scheduled to appear in the Daily Columbia Spectator on September 10^th, but was pulled at the last minute. After several days of waiting for a response to my inquiries, the editorial page editor who removed it (an Economics major who incidentally has a picture of Fidel Castro as his Facebook cover) sent me a list of objections which only confirmed how Econ students are being trained to be closed to diverse intellectual thought. Since the situation at Columbia, as I've found, reflects the general state of Economics in most American universities, I think it is all the more urgent for students themselves to call for courses in Austrian economics rather than resigning themselves to the indoctrination of mainstream academia. "

Freedom of speech only matters on liberal campuses when they agree with the speech.