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The only adjective that can adequately describe this news from Los Angeles:
In the fall of 2004, 48,000 ninth-graders took beginning algebra; 44% flunked, nearly twice the failure rate as in English. Seventeen percent finished with Ds.
. . . Among those who repeated the class in the spring, nearly three-quarters flunked again.
The school district could have […]

Today’s moonbat.
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Republican and Democratic senators on a 72-25 vote agreed to end their debate
Tomorrow: Judge Alito.
Hat tip to GOP Bloggers.
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The Times reports on a study concluding that English children are less intelligent at age 11 than they were 30 years ago.
In the easiest question, children are asked to watch as water is poured up to the brim of a tall, thin container. From there the water is tipped into a small fat glass. The […]

Pupils in an East London school have been banned from raising their hands to answer questions in class because their teachers fear it leads to feelings of victimization.
Hat tip to Stuck on Stupid.
Technorati: education, moonbats, leftists, liberals, nutcases, wackjobs

Mark Steyn on the Canadian election results:
Remember the conventional wisdom of 2004? Back then, you’ll recall, it was the many members of George Bush’s “unilateral” coalition who were supposed to be in trouble, not least the three doughty warriors of the Anglosphere–the president, Tony Blair and John Howard–who would all be paying a terrible electoral […]

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Get yours here!
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If you’re eating or drinking, swallow first.
Okay.
Cindy Sheehan has decided that DiFi is too right-wing, so she’s going to run against her in the election.
I’ll wait for you to stop laughing.
Better now?
The ludicrous thing here is that she might win, given that she’ll be running in the Peoples’ Republik of Kalifornia. But that would be […]

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