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The largest union in the U.S., with more than 3.1 million members, is the teachers union, less known to the public by it’s proper name, the National Education Association (NEA). In 2007 alone, the NEA spent more than $32 million on political lobbying, and more than $80 million on contributions almost exclusively to left-wing activist [...]

Read the whole thing. I love the part where some people complained that Ms. Vogt didn’t go through the “proper channels” — how’s that for our brave public school systems: Heaven forbid a kid think for themselves. John Kass, Chicago Tribune. November 14, 2008 Catherine Vogt—the brave 8th grader who used a T-shirt test to [...]

Interesting letter from the WSJ: In “Don’t Know Much About History” (de gustibus, Sept. 5) David Feith, in his criticism of today’s civic education, demonstrates yet another American characteristic: lack of historical memory. Civic literacy? Take a look at the survey done in 1943 by Columbia University historian Allan Nevins of 6,000 entering freshmen at [...]